Spam Karma GD Free Type

  • I’m getting close to installing Spam Karma and I noticed on the Plugins page it says
    “Note: For Captchas to work correctly, you need to have your install of PHP compiled with GD FreeType support (ask your server admin if you are not sure). If you do not have it, simply disable the Captcha check option and the plugin will still work fine otherwise.”
    I contacted my host regarding this and they gave me an ambiguous response. I searched the Forum and found a little code to tell what modules are installed. The response from my PHP test page was:
    Array ( [GD Version] => bundled (2.0 compatible) [FreeType Support] => [T1Lib Support] => [GIF Read Support] => 1 [GIF Create Support] => [JPG Support] => 1 [PNG Support] => 1 [WBMP Support] => 1 [XBM Support] => )
    Does that mean that FreeType works or no?

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  • It appears not. There would be a 1 (true) value after [FreeType Support] => if it was enabled on the server.

    Thread Starter phoch

    (@phoch)

    Thanks Kafkaesqui, I thought not. To follow up my question, my ISP responded to my initial request with:
    “Hello,
    “AS far as I can tell,
    Apart from a standard ANSI C library, FreeType 2 doesn’t have any
    external dependencies and can be compiled and installed on its own on
    any kind of system”
    from https://freetype.sourceforge.net/freetype2/index.html#requirements
    Unfortunaley, Our Apache setup does not allow compilation ON the
    server, if it can be compiled and uploaded it should work with the GD Mod.”
    So, is it possible to obtain a compiled version of FreeType to use? Where would I put it? Seems crazy to me, but what do I know..
    Paul

    I’ve found that while Spam Karma works fine, it seems to be adding some burden to my processing. Anyone else seen that, or am I imagining things?

    Compiles for Win32, perhaps. Not sure about other OS’ or system architectures. All I’ve come across for *nix/Linux are sources. As to setting something like this up, seek out information on “config.inc.php” on Google. Assuming your host allows them… !
    NM, I haven’t see that, but then I’ve only run it on a dev environment, which rather colors my experience.

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