I am trying to run a perl script, that was created in the Windows environment a while ago, on OS X Mountain Lion. I have installed the latest version of perl, perl-5.18.1, via perlbrew and installed the modules I needed, including PDF::API2, and GD. I installed libgd via homebrew. I am getting the error:

"libgd was not built with FreeType font support"

I don't understand this because it looks as if libgd WAS built with FreeType font support:

'brew info libgd'

gd: stable 2.1.0, HEAD
http://libgd.bitbucket.org/
/usr/local/Cellar/gd/2.1.0 (33 files, 1.7M) *
  Built from source with: --with-freetype, --with-libvpx, --with-libti
+ff
From: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/commits/master/Library/Formula/
+gd.rb
==> Dependencies
Recommended: libpng, jpeg
Optional: freetype, libtiff, libvpx

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My code includes the path to the system fonts.

my $fontdir = '/Library/Fonts/';
my $typeface = 'Arial.ttf';

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This is the line that the error is referring to:

$gd_text->set_font("$fontdir$typeface", $fsize) or die $gd_text->error;

This worked perfectly on Windows. All I did was change the path for OS X. Are TrueType fonts considered to be FreeType fonts?

This is what I've got in my .bash_profile:

export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
export PS1='\w : \u$ '
source ~/perl5/perlbrew/etc/bashrc
export PERLBREW_ROOT=/opt/perl5
source ${PERLBREW_ROOT}/etc/bashrc

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Did I leave anything out?

My path:

/Users/user/perl5/perlbrew/bin:/Users/user/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.18.1/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin:/opt/ImageMagick/bin:/Users/user/bin

How to solve this problem?

In reply to GD giving me the error "libgd was not built with FreeType font support" by PacoH

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