Hello everyone - I'm fairly new to Perl, using Win32. I want to use perl to create some graphs on the fly of data in a table in mySQL. Not so hard, huh? A million people must have done this already. But the problem is, I can't seem to get GD, short of compiling the bugger myself, which I would really rather not do.
In summary: all the documentation seems to suggest that a) I should have GD already and b) if I don't, it should be easy to install. However, this is not the case, so I'm very confused and could use some help :-) ------ Details ------ I already have ActiveState Perl 5.8. A search of past mailing list questions on this topic suggests that you should be able to install GD using PPM. Activestate suggests this too: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Modules/Perl/dist_html?dist_id=8887 But when I do "ppm search GD" I get a list of five GD-related modules, but not GD itself. What's up with that? Is it because I don't have the GD library installed? And before you ask, no, it's not because GD is already installed - I tried that! I don't have GD.pm anywhere useful. Also, I'm fairly sure that the perl GD module is just the interface to the GD library. I've found the GD library for Win32, I think, at the GNUWin32 project: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=23617&release_id=29152 But having downloaded it, what am I supposed to do with it? Just slap the DLL into my windows/system32 directory? Having hit these problems, I made the assumption that my PPM is broken for some reason and downloaded GD from CPAN manually. I have no idea how to get things to install using this method, either, but the README told me this: "3. Does GD run with MacPerl/Win32 Perl? Yes. The latest MacPerl and ActiveState binaries come with GD already compiled in and ready to go." Which sounds nice enough, but if that's the case, why does "use GD" make my scripts fall over because of dependency issues? ------- end details ------ Any help appreciated! Seldo. ____________________________________________ Seldo Voss: www.seldo.com ICQ #1172379 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------- If you can't find the time to do it right the first time, when will you find the time to do it over? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
