GD::Graph on Win32

[sidsharma]

Hi, I tried installing the GD::Graph libraries on Win32 and it said
that gdlib must be installed. I couldn't find this gdlib anywhere. Can
someone tell me where I can get it or how else I can have graphing
capabilities in Perl on the Win32 platform?

Thanks for the help

Sid

 

[Helgi Briem]

Hi, I tried installing the GD::Graph libraries on Win32 and it said
that gdlib must be installed. I couldn't find this gdlib anywhere. Can
someone tell me where I can get it or how else I can have graphing
capabilities in Perl on the Win32 platform?

Install Activeperl and then use PPM to install it:

C:\>ppm install GDGraph

 

[Martien Verbruggen]

Hi, I tried installing the GD::Graph libraries on Win32 and it said
that gdlib must be installed. I couldn't find this gdlib anywhere. Can
someone tell me where I can get it or how else I can have graphing
capabilities in Perl on the Win32 platform?

I don't think that GD::Graph would have said anything like that. I just
grepped the sources of GD::Graph for that string, and it simply doesn't
appear anywhere. The string libgd does exist, but only in a CHANGES
file.

Unless I removed that string from an earlier version (which I can't
remember), I think you must be mistaken.

It might have asked you to install the GD module, since that's a
prerequisite for GD::Graph. For ActiveState, just use ppm to install
both GD and GD::Graph (as well as GD::Text). If you have perl 5.8.0, I
have heard that ActiveState still hasn't made GD available for that. A
post in this group, or comp.lang.perl.modules, less than two weeks ago,
posted another ppm archive where GD was available. groups.google.com
should help you find that post. I didn't keep trak of that information.

Martien

 

[Sisyphus]

For ActiveState, just use ppm to install
both GD and GD::Graph (as well as GD::Text). If you have perl 5.8.0, I
have heard that ActiveState still hasn't made GD available for that. A
post in this group, or comp.lang.perl.modules, less than two weeks ago,
posted another ppm archive where GD was available. groups.google.com
should help you find that post. I didn't keep trak of that information.

Martien

More'n'likely that would have been the 5.8 ppm repository maintained by
Randy Kobes:

http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/

Cheers,
Rob