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

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.


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Re: Re: Re: Re: GD-Graph for ActivePerl
by kiat (Vicar) on Jan 17, 2004 at 07:03 UTC
    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!

        Thanks, BrowserUk!

        My biggest hurdle was knowing what to install and where to get them. The site you pointed me to got rid of that hurdle.

        I ran your code and everything is working fine :)

        Cheers and thanks once again!