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So I wanted to munge an image file to make it clear a site was an internal test site and not the main customer facing site. Imager looked to be just the ticket, and indeed it is very nice to use except that on Windows (where I was testing the script) I could only work with a .bmp version of the image - not the .png image I really wanted to work with. Never mind I thought, on the Linux machine where the script will finally run I'll be able to install Imager::File::PNG and all will be well.

Well, it's not! I get the same failure I did when I used cpan to try to install Imager::File::PNG on Windows. The Linux box is running 64 bit Debian Squeeze. Imager installed fine using apt-get on Debian and ppm on Windows. The relevant (I hope) part of the cpan output is:

Appending installation info to /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.1/perllocal.po
+d
  TONYC/Imager-0.93.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/make install  -- OK
Running make for T/TO/TONYC/Imager-File-PNG-0.86.tar.gz

  CPAN.pm: Going to build T/TO/TONYC/Imager-File-PNG-0.86.tar.gz

PNG: building independently
PNG: Not found via pkg-config
PNG: Generic: includes not found - libraries not found
PNG: v1.5: includes not found - libraries not found
PNG: v1.4: includes not found - libraries not found
PNG: v1.2: includes not found - libraries not found
PNG: v1.0: includes not found - libraries not found
PNG: base (+libz): includes not found - libraries not found
PNG: v1.5 (+libz): includes not found - libraries not found
PNG: v1.4 (+libz): includes not found - libraries not found
PNG: v1.2 (+libz): includes not found - libraries not found
PNG: v1.0 (+libz): includes not found - libraries not found
PNG: Checking if the compiler can find them on its own
Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lpng
PNG: Test code failed: Can't link/include 'png.h', 'stdio.h', 'png'
OS unsupported: PNG libraries or headers not found
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Looks like there is a missing PNG library, but I can't tell what it is. Can anyone offer some help?

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In reply to Failure trying to build Imager::File::PNG by GrandFather

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