gd
brew install gd
v2.3.3_6
GD
C library for creating and manipulating images in multiple formats (PNG, JPEG, GIF, WebP).
Why you might care
GD is a foundational graphics library used by many server-side image generation tools and PHP applications. It's lightweight and focused on programmatic image creation rather than interactive editing, making it ideal as a shared library dependency for web frameworks, thumbnail generators, and image processing pipelines.
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Runtime dependencies
Links
- https://libgd.github.io/
- Brew formula source: Formula/g/gd.rb
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