Thanks for your reply. I plan to do some more research. I have been writing software for about 35 years. With our software products (mainframe), they are well documented from installation to explaining every screen in detail. I have been in the server world (apache) for about 10 years or so. A lot of the software has terrible documentation. You can tell that the developers did the doc. There isn't any. Now in the case of XAMPP, I realize its hard to doc everything you might want to add, but some basic guidelines to installing secondary packages would have been great! CPAN has almost no useful documentation and no way to find answers other than their very limited FAQ.

Thank goodness for folks like you. Its the only way I get anything done. :-)

In reply to Re^2: Trying to install GD into Perl by hsi88
in thread Trying to install GD into Perl by hsi88

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