[Mono-list] System.DllNotFoundException: gdiplus.dll - libgdiplus.so is Missing on CentOS 5.1 / WHM (cPanel)

[Sebastien Pouliot]

On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 21:28 +0000, Chris Morley wrote:
> Thanks for the reply, but the more I think about installin libgdiplus
> via yum the less happy I am.

Not sure why ? anyway not sure you have the choice either ;-) unless you
prefer building from sources...

>  Should libgdiplus be installed by default and alongside in the same
> package when installing mono? 

By default ? no. There are case where libgdiplus is not needed.
Generally your package manager is able to detect them and install it
when necessary.

> Im concerned why mine was missing with installing mono via
> Easy::Apache WHM cPanel script.

It's the first time I hear about this script. Did you contact the
maintainer of the script to see if/how libgdiplus is
supported/installed ?

>  Furthermore I read on this mailgroup archives that the versions of
> libgdiplus and mono should be the same versions, this is not the case
> as my mono installed is 1.9 and the lib 1.0.5!

Yes, it's important that both version match. In this case I can assure
you that the result of 1.9 and 1.0.5 will NOT work.

Sebastien

> 
>  Regards
> 
>  Chris
> 
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Valentin Sawadski <valentin.sawadski at googlemail.com>
>  Sent: 15 July 2008 00:59
>  To: g18c at hotmail.com
>  Cc: mono-list at lists.ximian.com
>  Subject: Re: [Mono-list] System.DllNotFoundException: gdiplus.dll -
> libgdiplus.so is Missing on CentOS 5.1 / WHM (cPanel)
> 
>  Hi,
> 
>   On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 13:48 -0700, g18c wrote:
>   >
>   > g18c wrote:
>   > >
>   > > I'm not supprised its failing given the above file is missing,
> but my
>   > > question relates to resolving this in a WHM installed
> environment. Am i
>   > > better to remove mono in Easy::Apache and install this manually
> via 'yum',
>   > > or are there other options for getting libgdiplus.so onto my
> system?
>   > >
>   >
>   > Sorry for the slightly premature post, i installed libgdiplus via
> 'yum
>   > install libgdiplus', i now have the following installed on my
> CentOS 5.1
>   > box:
>   >
>   > root at host [/usr/local/lib]# find / -name libgdiplus*
>   > /var/cache/yum/dag/packages/libgdiplus-1.0.5-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm
>   > /var/cache/yum/dag/headers/libgdiplus-1.0.5-1.2.el4.rf.i386.hdr
>   > /usr/lib/libgdiplus.so.0.0.0
>   > /usr/lib/libgdiplus.so.0
>   > /usr/share/doc/libgdiplus-1.0.5
>   >
>   > However when i run:
>   >
>   > root at host [/usr/local/lib]# ldconfig -p |grep libgdiplus
>   >         libgdiplus.so.0 (libc6) => /usr/lib/libgdiplus.so.0
>   >
>   > I can see the lib is linked, but i still get same
>   > 'System.DllNotFoundException: gdiplus.dll' exception.
>   >
>   > Any pointers much appreciated.
> 
>   Try looking at http://mono-project.com/DllNotFoundException and
>   especially http://mono-project.com/Config_DllMap
> 
>   Hopefully this might help :-)
> 
>   Kind Regards,
>   Valentin
> 
> 
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