Sorry I didn't provide more info about the dependent libs and such. Yeah you need the JPG and PNG libs unless you want to build GD without them, which can be done with more Makefile magic when you build GD. But since I use gdCreateImageFromPng in emptriv, you'll at least need libpng. I think you could have gotten by without libjpeg with more GD makefile magic (by getting rid of -DHAVE_JPEG or something to that effect.) Yeah, zlib was a bit of a curve ball as well.

I went through the same learning experiences many times with getting GD to build right, but that's part of the process. Glad you had fun with it!

So what are you planning to write now that you're an Empeg master hacker?