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in thread GD module has no support for animated gifs

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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Re^3: GD module has no support for animated gifs
by marto (Cardinal) on Dec 23, 2025 at 12:29 UTC

    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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        It looks like your Strawberry perl may be more than 10 years old? There are a great deal of additional external tools & libraries that have had many updates for security and other reasons since then. Same goes for Perl itself. You should consider upgrading.

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