My apologies in advance for a mundane question, I am a gardener by trade, not a programmer. I have a simple Family Photo Album in Perl. It is happy, happy in Linux, but Windows XP is a mystery to me except as a Video Game platform. My relatives all use Windows.

It uses the GIMP at times, through a simple TK button using a system call.

Anyways, I installed GNUWin GIMP on a Windows XP personal.
I do this
my $command = 'c:\Program Files\GIMP\bin\gimp.exe';
system ($command);

I get
gimp.exe unable to locate component This application failed to start because libgdk.dll was not found. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Reinstalling gimp does not help. This is so easy, a high school dropout can figure it out in Linux, what do I do in Windows???

Gimp works fine if you click on Windows Icon

2003-06-07 edit ybiC: retitle from "Help a Gardener"

In reply to gimp, win32, system(), libgdk.dll not found by Arbogast

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