Greeetings O Monks,

Starting a new job, I've moved from unix to win32 (and ActiveState Perl) for my work machine. Most of my Perl scripts have made the migration without trouble, but I'm having the damnedest time installing the PGPLOT module (for use with PDL, for what it's worth).

Here's what I've tried:
ppm3 install PGPLOT, this results in Error: Package 'PGPLOT' not found. Please 'search' for it first.
cpan install PGPLOT gives an error that ExtUtils::F77 is not installed; but I can't seem to install ExtUtils::F77 (the make fails).
I followed the directions at http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/pdl-porters/2000-07/msg00000.html, but I get the following: 

C:\pgplot>ppm install --location PGPLOT
Unknown option: location
Error: no suitable installation target found for package PGPLOT.

C:\pgplot>ppm install PGPLOT
Error: no suitable installation target found for package PGPLOT.

C:\pgplot>ppm install PDL::Graphics::PGPLOT
Searching for 'PDL::Graphics::PGPLOT' returned no results. Try a broad
+er search
first.

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Has anyone done this? Can anyone point me in the correct direction?

Much thanks,

Kester

In reply to PGPLOT module install on win32 by kesterkester

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