GD on OS X?

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I’m implementing captcha feature on my site, but having problem in
installing GD.
I want to use captcha gem, so I installed GD2 through darwinport.

sudo port install gd2

And then, I installed gd gem and captcha gem.

sudo gem install gd2
sudo gem install captcha

However, I’m still having error message as follows:

no such file to load – GD
…
…
This error occured while loading the following files:
captcha.rb
GD

I’m using MacBook Pro for the development. Has anyone successfully
installed GD on OS X?

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This isn’t what you asked (as I’ve never tried to compile GD on OS X)
but why don’t you try ImageMagick & RMagick (the ruby binding).

http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/install-osx.html

(PS, lib tiff seems to be fixed in the ports).

-carl

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Carl L. wrote:

This isn’t what you asked (as I’ve never tried to compile GD on OS X)
but why don’t you try ImageMagick & RMagick (the ruby binding).

http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/install-osx.html

(PS, lib tiff seems to be fixed in the ports).

-carl

I tried rmagick but couldn’t find nice captcha solution with this.
Can you point me something if you know one?

BTW, I’m not sure I’m figuring it out correctly, but I think RoR can’t
find GD installation.
GD is installed under /opt/local where darwinport maintains all the
sources and binaries, and RoR is installed under /usr/local.
I followed this instruction
(Dan Benjamin)
when I installed RoR, and now I wonder if gd works if I installed RoR
and everything with darwinport.

However, I’m trying to install gd from source to make everything is
under /usr/local but having problem in compiling with some libraries.
Frustrating :frowning: