How to Build and Install Latest libgdiplus library on Linux

Environment

Product Version	13.0.19.116
Product	Progress® Telerik® Reporting

Description

Step by step article how to build and install libgdiplus from source and prebuilt .deb package

Solution

Prerequisites:

We are assuming that you already have older libgdiplus which installed its dependencies. More information and build and install instructions can be found here: https://github.com/mono/libgdiplus

sudo apt install libgdiplus

Easier method:

https://www.mono-project.com/download/stable/#download-lin

sudo apt install gnupg ca-certificates

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 3FA7E0328081BFF6A14DA29AA6A19B38D3D831EF

echo "deb https://download.mono-project.com/repo/ubuntu stable-bionic main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mono-official-stable.list

sudo apt update

sudo apt install libgdiplus

Harder method:

On Debian based distributions install prerequisites by running this command:

sudo apt-get install libgif-dev autoconf libtool automake build-essential gettext libglib2.0-dev libcairo2-dev libtiff-dev libexif-dev

Clone or download and unarchive libgdi repository:

git clone https://github.com/mono/libgdiplus.git
cd libgdiplus

Run build script (Optionally you can use --with-pango parameter if you want to use this library:

./autogen.sh
make 

Then run unit tests to verify of all is correct:

make check

If everything is fine, install by running:

make install 

or

sudo make install 

If the first one fails because of missing rights.