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

Does anyone know an easy step-by-step process to install GD::Graph for Windows 2000? I want to create charts, and GD::Graph seems to be what a lot of people are using. However, to install it requires a bunch of prereqs that include everything from multiple libraries and other modules, to an ANSI C compiler. Most instructions barely mention Windows. Activestate doesn't have a ppm to install (that would be too easy). Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

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Re: GD::Graph for Windows
by marto (Cardinal) on May 12, 2006 at 10:55 UTC
    Hi watchoutman,

    Run the following from the command line, it will install the module you are looking for:
    ppm install http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm/GDGraph.ppd
    You may also want to check out the module PPM::Repositories which you can use to add all know repositories to your PPM configuration. It may be wise to add these repositories efore installing modules so that PPM will have a better chance of finding any dependencies.

    For further info have a look at A guide to installing modules for Win32.

    Hope this helps.

    Martin
      That installed GD. I'll give it a whirl. Thank-you very much for your help. Todd