in reply to Re: GD-Graph for ActivePerl
in thread GD-Graph for ActivePerl

If I want to install them by hand, what are the files that I need? GD.pm and Graph.pm?

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re: Re: Re: GD-Graph for ActivePerl
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jan 17, 2004 at 05:37 UTC

    GD has a binary component (GD.DLL), which means that to install it from CPAN, you will need a compiler--the same compiler as was used to build your copy of perl, which means MS VC++ if you are using ActiveState perl. If you don;t have access to a (correct) compiler, you will need to install it from a pre-compiled source.

    PPMs for GD and several other GD-* packages are available from here.

    Either set a PPM repository to point to the link above

    ppm>rep add kobes http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/

    and then install using PPM in the normal way, or download the PPM/PPD files from that link and use point PPM at them.

    supersearch turned up this Re: Re: How to install GD.pm? post.

    PodMaster's links (especially A Guide to Installing Modules from tachyon)will explain how to do this better than I can.


    Examine what is said, not who speaks.
    "Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham
    "Think for yourself!" - Abigail
    Timing (and a little luck) are everything!

      Thanks, BroserUK!

      I downloaded GD.ppd, GDGraph.ppd and GDTextUtil.ppd and installed the respected modules through the normal PPM. Have I installed all the required modules to do graphs?

        Yes. Save this to a script.pl and run it and you it should produce a file 'file.png'. Look at that in your browser or image viewer.

        #! perl -slw use strict; use GD; use GD::Graph::bars; my @data = ( ["1st","2nd","3rd","4th","5th","6th","7th", "8th", "9th"], [ 1, 2, 5, 6, 3, 1.5, 1, 3, 4], [ sort { $a <=> $b } (1, 2, 5, 6, 3, 1.5, 1, 3, 4) ] ); my $graph = GD::Graph::bars->new(400, 300); $graph->set( x_label => 'X Label', y_label => 'Y label', title => 'Some simple graph', y_max_value => 8, y_tick_number => 8, y_label_skip => 2 ) or die $graph->error; my $gd = $graph->plot(\@data) or die $graph->error; open(IMG, '>file.png') or die $!; binmode IMG; print IMG $gd->png;

        Examine what is said, not who speaks.
        "Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham
        "Think for yourself!" - Abigail
        Timing (and a little luck) are everything!