in reply to Error while using GD::Simple

Something is seriously screwed up here and I can reproduce the problem.

On most of my ActivePerls Group.pm is in perl/lib/GD, but it's not there in build 1004 (5.10.0). I don't know whether it was *never* there, or whether 'ppm install GD::Simple' removed it.

Which build of ActivePerl do you have ? Simply reinstalling it might fix the problem (but only if GD::Group.pm ships with that distro.) Otherwise, let us know, and we'll devise another way of getting it fixed.

Cheers,
Rob

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Re^2: Error while using GD::Simple
by psurendran (Initiate) on Jun 16, 2009 at 01:26 UTC

    Dear Rob,

    As on a suggestion from one user I tried installing Strawberry perl v5.10.0.

    using the command

    ppm install http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/PPMPackages/10xx/GD.ppd

    Again, I ran the same script using GD::Simple

    and I can see the same error which says,
    Can't locate GD/Group.pm in @INC <@INC contains: C:/strawberry/perl/lib C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib .>
    at C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib/GD/Sample.pm line 158.

    Please write to me if you need anymore information to comment on this issue. Thanks and Regards, Praveen.
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      Please write to me if you need anymore information

      No, that about covers it. Neither the GD ppm at uwinnipeg nor the one at bribes, include GD::Group.pm. I don't know why that happens - it's clearly needed for GD::Simple to be functional. GD, itself seems to be usable, but not GD::Simple ... can you use GD instead ?

      I can't see why GD/Group is not being included in the GD ppm packages. Anyone ?

      Cheers,
      Rob

      UPDATE: As an interim measure, simply grabbing a copy of Group.pm from the CPAN source distro, and placing it next to Simple.pm in your perl installation might work - if you really do need to use GD::Simple
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        Thanks for pointing this out. The problem is that the Makefile.PL of the GD distribution specifies a PM attribute to WriteMakefile of what pm files to include, and this doesn't have Group.pm. It'd be a problem on any system, I would imagine. I've fixed this for the ppm packages in both the 5.10 and 5.8 uwinnipeg repositories.
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