I believe this is the same error I'm experiencing in Cygwin, with the exception that it's GD.dll that's mia during the test. I see a test failure here: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/189700 But I'm unsure how the solve the error. I saw the addition of -liconv for the mac environment as well, but if it's the solution for me it's not working. Anyone know a solution?