I want to easily create graphs in perl and output them as png's. I have Activeperl 5.6.1 and have used the PPM thing to get it. I did... ppm install gd it installed and i was feeling happy. (This was after hours of trying to find binaries). Then i ran a simple test (the one that comes in the gd.pm file) and it spat out a bad png file. I changed it to jpeg format, and it opened, but was really warped. I then changed it to 250*250 pixels and it wouldnt load properly. The version PPM downloads is 1.27 or something, that's realyl low. And it uses GD.DLL. But in ever binary distribution i have found except for zlib it had .lib and .dll.a files, no dll's!!, i need to be able to make a gd.dll with the current version of GD!. I have msvc6 which i am assuming i would use to make the dll!. HELP! please, email me at spy_oid@hotmail.com if you know anything about getting GD to work with ActivePerl 5.6.1 because the PPM version didn't work! I am sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this. Please tell me where to go if it is.

In reply to Problems installing GD with ActivePerl by Anonymous Monk

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