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/
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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.

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;
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