GD and Perl 5.8

sniperhawk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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.

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Re: GD and Perl 5.8 by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jan 05, 2005 at 00:04 UTC
Try the repository at http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms. `ppm> rep describe 2 Describing Active Repository 2: Name: winnipeg Location: http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms Type: Webpage ppm> describe ==================== Package 3: Name: GD Version: 2.19 Author: Lincoln Stein (lstein@cshl.org) Title: GD Abstract: Interface to Gd Graphics Library Location: winnipeg Available Platforms: 1. MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8 ====================` [download] Examine what is said, not who speaks. Silence betokens consent. Love the truth but pardon error.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: GD and Perl 5.8 by holli (Abbot) on Jan 05, 2005 at 00:00 UTC
there is a version of GD for perl 5.8 at bribes repository. get `Repositories.pm` from CPAN to get a list of mostly all know ppm-repositories.	[reply] [d/l]