Hello Perl Monks,

My web service provider has just upgraded and Perl no longer has GD installed. It has a cpanel and allows a customer to install Perl modules only the C compiler is not available. In the past I have managed to install Perl modules by creating a folder called lib and copying the .pm files to it.
use lib '/home/myaccount/public_html/lib/'; works well but not for GD.pm and the folder GD.

I notice that GD.pm has 4 require statements:-
require FileHandle;
require Exporter;
require DynaLoader;
require AutoLoader;

So i have also copied FileHandle.pm, Exporter.pm and AutoLoader.pm to my lib folder. DynaLoader is something different @ISA = qw(Exporter DynaLoader);. Or maybe there is a Dynaloader.pm. It was very difficult to find the other 3 .pm files on my Debian system. I once worked on a computer telephone hot line service and found that with most customers all I had to do was listen and in framing the question the customer would provide the answer.

My test program is:-

#!/usr/bin/perl 
use CGI qw(:standard);
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
$| = 1;
open (STDERR, ">&STDOUT");
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use lib '/home/myaccount/public_html/lib';
use GD;
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The output is:-
Can't locate loadable object for module GD in @INC (@INC contains: /home/myaccount/public_html/lib /usr/local/lib64/perl5 etc. Compilation failed in require at test.cgi line 8.

Since GD.pm is only a wrapper for libgd do I not need to put libgd somewhere like /usr/bin? Only as a customer I have no access to /usr/bin. I think you get the idea that the problem is goung around in circles and so I have come to you.

I run Debian, Apache2 and Perl 14.

My web service provider runs Linux Apache2 and Perl 10. GD works great on my system. It makes no difference which version of GD I copy to /lib.

My web service provider is http://www.dotpromotion.net/

It might be easier to change my web service provider.

Hello monks - what do think. Yes I know copying a module from one system to another is not a good idea but what can I do?