[Rlib-users] Re: Rlib

[Bob D. <bd...@si...>]

Hey Will.. great to hear it worked for someone ;)


> I have a couple of suggestions for your next release, in terms of documenting the installation process...

Suggestions are always welcome.. patches are also appreciated :)

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> 1) When building clibpdf, one should make sure to do 'make lib' before 'make install'.  Then manually symlinking the cpdflib header and .a file is a good idea.

I'll make a note to put that on our site or in the README

> 2) When running configure, it was necessary to set the env. var MYSQL_CONFIG to the location of my mysql_config executable, /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config. 
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> Otherwise, configure gives:
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> checking for mysql_config... no                                                 
> ./configure: line 1: no: command not found                                      
> ./configure: line 1: no: command not found                                      
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> which threw me off for a while!
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Could I get some more information on this.. what distro are you using? 
Also.. I'm not a wizzard at autoconf... this was my 1st official go of
it... maybe you could do better then me?? possibly take a look at
configure.in in CVS head?

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> 3) You may wish to put a copy of the examples in text files in the release directory. When I copied them from the pdf manual i introduced some errors.

Yes.. I know I need to do that... acroread is messed up

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> 4) I couldn't get the "dl" directive to work by tweaking php.ini, but if I symlinked to rlib.so from the directory where the actual displayed php file is stored, everything was golden.  Ideally one would want to make rlib.so available globally, but I couldn't figure out how to do this.  ANy tips?
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What version of php?  Where did rlib want to install?  and 
what is extension_dir set to in your php.ini ... thats were RLIB wants
to install

> 5) Dynamic PDF output is neat, but html output would be sweeter and faster in many cases. Any plans to create plain  old html report outputs?

HEHEHE!! Is this not in the documentation???

Normally you do:
rlib_set_output_format($rlib, $format); 

and format can be: "PDF", "HTML", "CSV", or "TXT"

so it should already work... give it a try

- Bob

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> Thanks again for offering this under GPL.
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> Will Kessler
> Email me at: ke...@wi...
> See my web site at : http://www.willkessler.com
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