in reply to GD module has no support for animated gifs

GD is up to date. (2.83).

The complaint is not about the version of the GD module that you have installed.
Instead it's about the version of the libgd library against which your GD-2.83 module has been built.
To find out what version of libgd was used, try running: 
perl -MGD -le "print GD::LIBGD_VERSION;"

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That should show you that libgd is at a version less than 2.0.33.

The solution is to install a version of the GD perl module (version 2.83 would be fine, but older versions would also suffice) that has been built against libgd-2.0.33 or later.

Cheers,
Rob

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Re^2: GD module has no support for animated gifs
by Anonymous Monk on Dec 23, 2025 at 11:57 UTC

    yes, when i run that command it says 2.0303. You said to install a version of GD that has been built against libgd-2.0.33 or later but how would i do that? I used the cpan command cpanm GD to download the module, in case that matters.

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      Install an up to date version of libgd on your system, then use cpan to build the perl module GD against it. You haven't specified which OS you are on, if it has a package manager you should be able to install it from there:

       sudo pacman -S gd
[sudo] password for marto: 
warning: gd-2.3.3-9 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Package (1)  Old Version  New Version  Net Change

extra/gd     2.3.3-9      2.3.3-9        0.00 MiB

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      Then just reinstall the module using cpan or otherwise. If on windows see instructions at https://github.com/libgd/libgd, or consider using Strawberry perl with all this sort of thing included.

      Update: Sorry, just noticed the 'c:\' above.

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        I am on windows using strawberry perl. I don't know if it has a package manager. A long time ago i was using Activestate perl but then the GD came with the distribution so i never had to deal with this topic. I found some websites that have information on installing libgd so maybe ill sort it out.

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