Recently I upgraded my version of Perl from 5.6 to 5.8, and almost all my existing code worked. The exception is a script that uses GD to create images. My initial responce was to attempt to install GD using ppm3. Much to my surprise, doing a "search GD" with ppm3 did not find the GD module.

Inivitable I am missing something simple to get GD working with perl 5.8, but for the life of me, I can't figure it out. Can anyone clue me in as to what I'm doing wrong?

I'm running the ActiveState version of perl on Windows XP. I've attempted using both 5.8.0 and 5.8.6.

In reply to GD and Perl 5.8 by sniperhawk

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