Graphing Module for Windows XP

Niner710 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, I am having trouble installing perl module GD on my Windows XP system. First, I downloaded the GD module(GD-2.41) from CPAN and tried to run the perl makefile.pl but I got an error.

'gdlib-config' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
**UNRECOVERABLE ERROR**
Could not find gdlib-config in the search path. Please install libgd 2
+.0.28 or h
igher.
If you want to try to compile anyway, please rerun this script with th
+e option -
-ignore_missing_gd.
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How do I install gdlib on my windows xp machine? I thought the GD module had it self contained? Also, if I were to get everything installed correctly would it be possible to package my script and these libraries together to make a executable file? Sorry for the newbie questions. Any help would be very much appreciated? Thanks.

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Hi, I want to create a simple 2D line plot with perl for the data that I crunch. I am using Windows XP and was wondering if anyone could give me a good perl module to use to do this. Thanks.

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Re: Graphing Module for Windows XP by planetscape (Chancellor) on Jan 17, 2009 at 19:39 UTC
Personally, I really like gnuplot. There are other ideas in the nodes below. Creating Graphs - Best module to use State of the Ch(art) in Perl Graphics Module making a scientific chart Perl module for chart drawing? How to creata a Line Graph Pixel-based Plotting in Perl? Line Graph Image Manipulation Better plotting than GD::Graph? Real time data graphs. drawing (visualizing) directed graphs How to print/draw a network graph Really slick Charts and Graphs Portable simple line graph module? Charting Modules Professional, "a-la-OpenOffice", 3D graphs develop animation and graphics creating graphs (YA) Q: re "which graphics module?" I'm also looking at SVG for a project of mine (An SVG Case Study: Integrated, Dynamic Avalanche Forecasting has some nice examples). Updated 2011-01-13 with nodes more recent than Graphics Module HTH, planetscape	[reply]
Re: Graphing Module for Windows XP by dHarry (Abbot) on Jan 17, 2009 at 20:14 UTC
I would advice gnuplot, or rather wgnuplot because you use Windows. Beware, there are lots of modules on CPAN for working with gnuplot but they don´t work well with Windows or don´t work at all with Windows. Fortunately it´s simple to generate gnuplot parameter files with plain Perl. You can generate a file containing the to be plotted data, i.e. the x,y values. QED example (untested): use Perl to generate a gnuplot.gp file containing all the stuff gnuplot needs to know. `set datafile separator "," set xdata time set timefmt "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S" set term push set terminal png medium size 1200 800 set output './thePlot.png' plot [][-10:40] 'thePlot.csv' using 1:80 title "your title" with line +s title "plot title" with lines; set output set term windows` [download] After you have generated you call wgnuplot from the Perl script, something like: `@args = ("gnuplot",$plot_parameters_file); system(@args) == 0 or die "gnuplot failed: $?";` [download] HTH	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Install Perl Module GD on Windows XP by zwon (Abbot) on Jan 17, 2009 at 15:33 UTC
You have to install libgd in order to compile GD module. You can find libgd on http://www.libgd.org	[reply]
Re: Graphing Module for Windows XP by zentara (Cardinal) on Jan 17, 2009 at 20:04 UTC
If you want to install Perl/Tk you can use it's canvas to make 2d plots. I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth Remember How Lucky You Are	[reply]