php-vips 1.0.4 errors out

[mnglkhn]

Hi,

I have installed vips 8.4 and when I try to install php-vips 1.0.4 it dies out with this message:

"configure: error: you need at least vips 8.2 for this module "

[jcupitt]

Hello, that's asking about the libvips version. What version of libvips do you have installed?

I'll try to improve the wording.

[mnglkhn]

I have libvips in /usr/local/lib/libvips.so, along with libvips.la and libvips.a
I assume it was installed with vips 8.4 since I have not manually installed it.

I should mention that I am on a CentOS 6 box.

[jcupitt]

It sounds like you are missing the headers and the .pc file. Do you have /usr/local/include/vips?

[mnglkhn]

I just checked and the dir with all header files is there.

[jcupitt]

Then maybe you've not set PKG_CONFIG_PATH? This is the environment variable used to find .pc files, and .pc files are the things used to find headers.

Check you have vips.pc in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig, check that that directory is on your config path, then try:

$ pkg-config vips --modversion
8.5.0

To verify that the headers can be found.

[jcupitt]

Oops, didn't mean to close.

[mnglkhn]

vips.pc is listed in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
along with vips-cpp.pc and vipsCC.pc

pkg-config vips --modversion
does not produce an output

[jcupitt]

OK, so you need to set PKG_CONFIG_PATH.

$ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"

You could add that to your .bashrc, it's probably useful elsewhere.

[mnglkhn]

that did it!

super thanks!

[jcupitt]

Great!

[kleisauke]

FYI: Currently libvips isn't in any Centos repository. There is package request to get it into the EPEL, see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1189137

If you're running Centos >= 7 then there's an easier way to install libvips (v8.4.4) and the PHP vips (v1.0.4) extension (the Remi repository provides a easy way to install it).

# Install the EPEL repository configuration package:
yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

# Install the Remi repository configuration package:
yum install http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm

# Install the yum-utils package (for the yum-config-manager command):
yum install yum-utils

# Command to enable the repository (PHP 7.1.1, for PHP 7.0.15 use: remi-php70):
yum-config-manager --enable remi-php71

# Install libvips and the PHP vips extension:
yum install php-pecl-vips

[mnglkhn]

@kleisauke : Super nice this install guide for CentOS!

My approach was to:

---

A. Install VIPS from source

wget http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/supported/current/vips-8.4.5.tar.gz /tmp/vips-8.4.5.tar.gz
cd /tmp/
tar -xzvf vips-8.4.5.tar.gz
cd vips-8.4.5
./configure
make && make install

vi ~/.bashrc # to add
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"
source ~/.bashrc

---

B. Install PHP-VIPS-EXT

pecl install vips

---

C. Install PHP-VIPS

composer require jcupitt/vips

NOTE:

In order to have PECL you need to install PEAR.
Obviously, first try to install pear using your package manager.

Otherwise:

curl -O https://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar
sudo php -d detect_unicode=0 go-pear.phar

[airqb]

Hello there, I am trying to use VIPS in golang in fact it was working fine but not anymore after update golang, I try many ways but still getting this message

GOROOT=/Users/qbgrow/go/go1.13.4 #gosetup
GOPATH=/Users/qbgrow/go #gosetup
/Users/qbgrow/go/go1.13.4/bin/go build -o /private/var/folders/gt/y155t_6j50sf5f55b1qqvh8r0000gn/T/___go_build_ApiServer_go /Users/qbgrow/go/src/api-server/ApiServer.go #gosetup
# pkg-config --cflags  -- vips vips vips vips vips vips vips vips vips
Package libffi was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libffi.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'libffi', required by 'gobject-2.0', not found
pkg-config: exit status 1

[jcupitt]

Sorry, you'd need to ask the project maintaining the go binding.