Re: GD module has no support for animated gifs

by syphilis on 2025-12-23 02:56:17
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;"
That should show you that libgd is at a version less than 2.0.33.

The solution is to install a version of GD that has been built against libgd-2.0.33 or later.

Cheers,
Rob

Replies

  • Re^2: GD module has no support for animated gifs [ Anonymous Monk ] 2025-12-23 06:57:17

    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.

    • Re^3: GD module has no support for animated gifs [ marto ] 2025-12-23 07:29:12

      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

      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.