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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