Hi All,
  I've been needing to do this for a while and recent events have made it a necessity. I have a product coded in Perl (CGI) which get installed on all kinds of servers, IIS, Apache, Win32, Linux, BSD, etc. As it's installed in all kinds of setups I've got it coded to act differently on different servers depending on the environment and modules available.

I need to generate two types of graphics
  1. One of those authentication images to block automated calls
  2. Some Bar and Pie charts to show statistics
My main concern is doing this without the need for the end user to install perl modules. A lot of these guys are on shared hosting with very inflexible hosts. If I can just include the Perl module in with my package that'll be good enough, but I know a lot have to be added into Perl properly for them to work.

So I guess what I really asking for is some advice onthe best and most common modules to use, and if there are any modules in the core that would fit the bill.

Thanks in advance!

Lyle

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