installing the GD library on OS X

Just a quick note on how to install the GD graphical library on OS X.

You want to do this if you want the buttons for the ia5 web interface to be generated automatically (instead of using the fallback text buttons). The thing is that the standard libgd install from homebrew misses some options. So, first uninstall the installed version (in case you already installed it).

Install libgd

brew uninstall libgd
brew install libgd --with-freetype --with-libtiff --with-libvpx
brew info libgd

Install the GD lib

cpanm GD

On Maverick, this currently (05/2014) fails due to a single test that does not succeed. The code tested is not required for MisterHouse, so you can opt to force-install.

cpanm -f GD