I'm having some problems trying to use GD library on server.

First of all, I realized this library was not present on my server. Not bad (well, GD is part of MacPerl standard distribution; I thought it could be the same with Linux). I've downloaded a version of GD library and I've tried to compile it (in my own directory, cause I haven't root privileges).

Now comes the annoying part.
Trying to load the library, perl answers:
Can't load module GD, dynamic loading not available in this perl.
  (You may need to build a new perl executable which either supports
  dynamic loading or has the GD module statically linked into it.)
In GD.pm documentation, I've read:
If the make and install all seem to go well but you get errors like "Fatal error: can't load module GD.so", or "Fatal error: unknown symbol gdFontSmall" when you try to run a script that uses GD, you may have problems with dynamic linking. Check whether other dynamically-linked Perl modules such as POSIX and DB_File run correctly.

I tried to use POSIX library, and perl does not complain. I'd be glad if I have not to reinstall Perl. Could someone help me? When you want. I'm not holding my breath :)

larsen
-- "Fatti non foste a viver come bruti"

In reply to Problems compiling GD by larsen

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