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I am trying to install GD module in Cygwin, and I can't seem to figure out why 'make' keeps failing. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance. 
$ cpan install GD
Going to read '/home/me/.cpan/Metadata'
  Database was generated on Mon, 29 Dec 2014 12:41:02 GMT
Running install for module 'GD'
Running make for L/LD/LDS/GD-2.56.tar.gz
Checksum for /home/me/.cpan/sources/authors/id/L/LD/LDS/GD-2.56.tar.gz
+ ok

  CPAN.pm: Going to build L/LD/LDS/GD-2.56.tar.gz

Configuring for libgd version 2.1.0.
Checking for stray libgd header files...none found.

Included Features:          GD_JPEG GD_FREETYPE GD_PNG GD_GIF GD_GIFAN
+IM GD_OPENPOLYGON
GD library used from:       /usr/local
Created MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json
Creating new 'Build' script for 'GD' version '2.56'
Building GD
Extracting Image.pm (with variable substitutions)
gcc -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/lib/perl5/5.14/x86_64-cygwin-threads/C
+ORE -DXS_VERSION="2.56" -DVERSION="2.56" -DHAVE_JPEG -DHAVE_FT -DHAVE
+_GIF -DHAVE_PNG -c -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -U__STRICT_ANSI__ -fno-stri
+ct-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -O3 -o lib/GD.o lib/GD.c
ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap::Mkbootstrap('blib/arch/auto/GD/GD.bs')
g++ --shared -Wl,--enable-auto-import -Wl,--export-all-symbols -Wl,--e
+nable-auto-image-base -fstack-protector -o blib/arch/auto/GD/GD.dll l
+ib/GD.o /usr/lib/perl5/5.14/x86_64-cygwin-threads/CORE/libperl.dll.a 
+-L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib -ljpeg -lz -L/usr/local/lib -lpng16
+ -L/usr/local/lib -lfreetype -lgd
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0xd7b): undefined reference to `gdImageCreateFrom
+Gd2Ptr'
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0xd7b): relocation truncated to fit: R_X86_64_PC3
+2 against undefined symbol `gdImageCreateFromGd2Ptr'
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0xf4c): undefined reference to `gdImageCreateFrom
+Gd2Ptr'
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0xf4c): relocation truncated to fit: R_X86_64_PC3
+2 against undefined symbol `gdImageCreateFromGd2Ptr'
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0x1bfc): undefined reference to `gdImageCreateFro
+mGd2Part'
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0x1bfc): relocation truncated to fit: R_X86_64_PC
+32 against undefined symbol `gdImageCreateFromGd2Part'
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0x39b8): undefined reference to `gdImageGd2Ptr'
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0x39b8): relocation truncated to fit: R_X86_64_PC
+32 against undefined symbol `gdImageGd2Ptr'
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0x3c16): undefined reference to `gdImageGd2Ptr'
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0x3c16): relocation truncated to fit: R_X86_64_PC
+32 against undefined symbol `gdImageGd2Ptr'
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0x3e4f): undefined reference to `gdImagePngPtrEx'
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0x3e4f): relocation truncated to fit: R_X86_64_PC
+32 against undefined symbol `gdImagePngPtrEx'
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0x3f0f): undefined reference to `gdImagePngPtr'
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0x3f0f): relocation truncated to fit: R_X86_64_PC
+32 against undefined symbol `gdImagePngPtr'
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0x40df): undefined reference to `gdImageJpegPtr'
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0x40df): relocation truncated to fit: R_X86_64_PC
+32 against undefined symbol `gdImageJpegPtr'
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0x12699): undefined reference to `gdImageCreateFr
+omPng'
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0x12699): relocation truncated to fit: R_X86_64_P
+C32 against undefined symbol `gdImageCreateFromPng'
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0x128d9): undefined reference to `gdImageCreateFr
+omJpeg'
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0x128d9): relocation truncated to fit: R_X86_64_P
+C32 against undefined symbol `gdImageCreateFromJpeg'
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0x12e65): undefined reference to `gdImageCreateFr
+omPngCtx'
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0x12e65): additional relocation overflows omitted
+ from the output
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0x13145): undefined reference to `gdImageCreateFr
+omJpegCtx'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
error building blib/arch/auto/GD/GD.dll from lib/GD.o at /usr/lib/perl
+5/5.14/ExtUtils/CBuilder/Base.pm line 310.
  LDS/GD-2.56.tar.gz
  ./Build -- NOT OK
Running Build test
  Can't test without successful make
Running Build install
  Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible


$ cpan > force install GD
Configuring for libgd version 2.1.0.
Checking for stray libgd header files...none found.

lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0xd7b): undefined reference to `gdImageCreateFrom
+Gd2Ptr'
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0xd7b): relocation truncated to fit: R_X86_64_PC3
+2 against undefined symbol `gdImageCreateFromGd2Ptr'
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0xf4c): undefined reference to `gdImageCreateFrom
+Gd2Ptr'
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0xf4c): relocation truncated to fit: R_X86_64_PC3
+2 against undefined symbol `gdImageCreateFromGd2Ptr'
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0x1bfc): undefined reference to `gdImageCreateFro
+mGd2Part'
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0x1bfc): relocation truncated to fit: R_X86_64_PC
+32 against undefined symbol `gdImageCreateFromGd2Part'
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0x39b8): undefined reference to `gdImageGd2Ptr'
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0x39b8): relocation truncated to fit: R_X86_64_PC
+32 against undefined symbol `gdImageGd2Ptr'
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0x3c16): undefined reference to `gdImageGd2Ptr'
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0x3c16): relocation truncated to fit: R_X86_64_PC
+32 against undefined symbol `gdImageGd2Ptr'
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0x3e4f): undefined reference to `gdImagePngPtrEx'
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0x3e4f): relocation truncated to fit: R_X86_64_PC
+32 against undefined symbol `gdImagePngPtrEx'
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0x3f0f): undefined reference to `gdImagePngPtr'
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0x3f0f): relocation truncated to fit: R_X86_64_PC
+32 against undefined symbol `gdImagePngPtr'
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0x40df): undefined reference to `gdImageJpegPtr'
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0x40df): relocation truncated to fit: R_X86_64_PC
+32 against undefined symbol `gdImageJpegPtr'
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0x12699): undefined reference to `gdImageCreateFr
+omPng'
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0x12699): relocation truncated to fit: R_X86_64_P
+C32 against undefined symbol `gdImageCreateFromPng'
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0x128d9): undefined reference to `gdImageCreateFr
+omJpeg'
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0x128d9): relocation truncated to fit: R_X86_64_P
+C32 against undefined symbol `gdImageCreateFromJpeg'
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0x12e65): undefined reference to `gdImageCreateFr
+omPngCtx'
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0x12e65): additional relocation overflows omitted
+ from the output
lib/GD.o:GD.c:(.text+0x13145): undefined reference to `gdImageCreateFr
+omJpegCtx'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
error building blib/arch/auto/GD/GD.dll from lib/GD.o at /usr/lib/perl
+5/5.14/ExtUtils/CBuilder/Base.pm line 310.


$ make -v
GNU Make 4.0
Built for x86_64-pc-cygwin
Copyright (C) 1988-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gp
+l.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

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Also to add... 
** Configuration summary for libgd 2.1.0:

   Support for Zlib:                 yes
   Support for PNG library:          yes
   Support for JPEG library:         yes
   Support for VPX library:          no
   Support for TIFF library:         no
   Support for Freetype 2.x library: yes
   Support for Fontconfig library:   no
   Support for Xpm library:          no
   Support for pthreads:             yes

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Re: GD module 'make' failure in Cygwin
by nlwhittle (Beadle) on Dec 30, 2014 at 18:50 UTC
    Do you have the gd library installed from the Cygwin installation package?
[reply]
      Yes; gd 2.0.36 and libgd
[reply]

        Well, I'm not an expert, but I believe there is a problem with the version of the gd library that Cygwin provides. It looks like the install routine is looking for version 2.1.0, but Cygwin only provides 2.0.36.

        Looking at the "Issues" list on Meta::CPAN, it seems like version conflicts with this library have been an ongoing issue for a long time. Sorry I couldn't help more.

        Update: See my next post farther down. I managed to get GD running on my Cygwin setup.

        --Nick
[reply]

        Yes; gd 2.0.36 and libgd

        Where is it installed (what files)?

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