Rather than just randomly trying things you need to learn to read the documentation. For example, you failed to read the GD documentation informing you about installing libjjpeg. The documentation I think is pretty clear.

To answer your multiple post, you don't need to install XPM or FreeType (or libjpeg for that matter) to build GD, which is why they are marked at optional. If you don't know what these things are, do some research on them and decide wither you should install them or not.

My advice to you is:

• Read the libgd Compile FAQ, download and compile the prerequisites.
• (Re)Build libgd.
• Re install the GD perl module, reading and understanding the README before hand.
• Try some of the tests which ship as part of the distribution.
• If you have any further problems, compose your thoughts and post a single reply, rather than multiple short replies in quick succession.

Martin

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