I have looked and seen similar issues posted but am unable to get GD working. the following error arises with libgd and libpng installed...
clang -c -I/usr/local/include -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -g -pipe -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -fno-strict-aliasing -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include -Wformat=0 -Os -DVERSION=\"2.50\" -DXS_VERSION=\"2.50\" "-I/System/Library/Perl/5.12/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE" -DHAVE_FT -DHAVE_GIF -DHAVE_ANIMGIF -DVERSION_33 -DHAVE_UNCLOSEDPOLY -DHAVE_FTCIRCLE GD.c
GD.xs:997:18: warning: implicit declaration of function 'gdImageGifAnimBeginPtr' is invalid in C99 [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
data = (void *) gdImageGifAnimBeginPtr(image,&size,globalcm,loops);
^
GD.xs:1022:18: warning: implicit declaration of function 'gdImageGifAnimAddPtr' is invalid in C99 [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
data = (void *) gdImageGifAnimAddPtr(image,&size,localcm,leftofs,topofs,delay,disposal,previm);
^
GD.xs:1041:18: warning: implicit declaration of function 'gdImageGifAnimEndPtr' is invalid in C99 [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
data = (void *) gdImageGifAnimEndPtr(&size);
^
GD.xs:1598:3: warning: implicit declaration of function 'gdImageOpenPolygon' is invalid in C99 [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
gdImageOpenPolygon(image,polyptr,length,color);
^
GD.xs:2192:16: warning: using the result of an assignment as a condition without parentheses [-Wparentheses]
if (value = hv_fetch(hash,"linespacing",strlen("linespacing"),0)) {
~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
GD.xs:2192:16: note: place parentheses around the assignment to silence this warning
if (value = hv_fetch(hash,"linespacing",strlen("linespacing"),0)) {
^
( )
...
2 warnings generated.
rm -f blib/arch/auto/GD/GD.bundle
LD_RUN_PATH="/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib" clang -mmacosx-version-min=10.8 -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector GD.o -o blib/arch/auto/GD/GD.bundle \
-L/usr/local/lib -lz -liconv -lgd \
ld: warning: ignoring file /usr/local/lib/libgd.dylib, file was built for x86_64 which is not the architecture being linked (i386): /usr/local/lib/libgd.dylib
chmod 755 blib/arch/auto/GD/GD.bundle
/usr/bin/perl -MExtUtils::Command::MM -e 'cp_nonempty' -- GD.bs blib/arch/auto/GD/GD.bs 644
/usr/bin/perl "-Iblib/arch" "-Iblib/lib" bdf_scripts/bdf2gdfont.PLS bdf_scripts/bdf2gdfont.pl
Extracting bdf2gdfont.pl (with variable substitutions)
cp bdf_scripts/bdf2gdfont.pl blib/script/bdf2gdfont.pl
/usr/bin/perl -MExtUtils::MY -e 'MY->fixin(shift)' -- blib/script/bdf2gdfont.pl
Manifying blib/man1/bdf2gdfont.pl.1
Manifying blib/man3/GD.3pm
Manifying blib/man3/GD::Image.3pm
Manifying blib/man3/GD::Polygon.3pm
Manifying blib/man3/GD::Polyline.3pm
Manifying blib/man3/GD::Simple.3pm
Running Mkbootstrap for GD ()
chmod 644 GD.bs
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-MTest::Harness" "-e" "undef *Test::Harness::Switches; test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
Testing using gif support.
t/GD.t ........
Failed 6/12 subtests
(less 3 skipped subtests: 3 okay)
t/Polyline.t .. ok
Test Summary Report
-------------------
t/GD.t (Wstat: 0 Tests: 12 Failed: 6)
Failed tests: 2-7
Files=2, Tests=13, 0 wallclock secs ( 0.02 usr 0.01 sys + 0.10 cusr 0.01 csys = 0.14 CPU)
Result: FAIL
Failed 1/2 test programs. 6/13 subtests failed.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255
-> FAIL Installing GD failed. See /Users/lraven/.cpanm/work/1391048234.74068/build.log for details. Retry with --force to force install it.
Expiring 19 work directories.
All other modules I need are installing, just not GD.
I am using OS X 10.8.5, bash version 3.2.48, perl version 5.012 and cpanm version 1.7