My apologies. I should have phrased the question better. (Perhaps too much meditation led me to believe in "mind transfer"...;) ) Matt H himself is not supporting the MS platform for his perl bindings. I was trying to compile it in W2k using nmake utility. I get the following error >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ERROR MESSAGE >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>. CPAN_Module\gdchart-perl-1.0>nmake Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 1.50 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved. cl -c -Igdchart0.94b -Igdchart0.94b/gd1.3 -nologo -O1 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG - DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_I MPLICIT_SYS -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX -O1 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -DVERSION=\"1.0\" -DX S_VERSION=\"1.0\" -IC:\Perl\lib\CORE gdchart_wrap.c 'cl' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe' : return code '0x1' Stop. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> END ERROR >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> So let me try again. My question is someone out there who has managed to compile the GDChart on W2K. If not, is there a way to create "exploding pie chart " in perl using any other plotting methods..? Thanks _DMonk_