The jpeg library needs to be available at build time of the Imager module. Adding it to the system later doesn't have any effect, unless the module has been built accordingly.  The build process only links against external libraries it can find during configuration.

(Just mentioning it, as it's not clear from your description whether you built Imager yourself, or where you got it from...)

At build time! Ah! No, I grabbed Imager before I installed the jpeg libraries. I'll try to recompile and see if that was my problem. Thanks!

Imager doesn't grab the libraries even when I hard-code their locations in the makefile. This is a god-awful installation (for Windows at least). Guess I'll have to try something different.

Uh ... details?

Can you show some code that works on 5.8 but doesn't work on 5.10? Can you explain what exactly "can't seem to get there" means? (ie: what error message are you getting? what behavior does your code have that it didn't have before, etc...)

From the other output you've described Imager's Makefile.PL is finding neither the jpeg libraries not the header files.

You need all of the following:

• a compiler
• the library - depending on which compiler you're using that will be libjpeg.a or libjpeg.lib
• the header files - jpeglib.h, jconfig.h, jmorecfg.h

If the libraries aren't in the default library search path, add a --libpath=c:\directory\ option.

If the headers aren't in the default include search path, add a --incpath=c:\directory\ option.

So you might have:

The Makefile.PL output should include a line like:

If it doesn't, Imager didn't find one of either the includes or libraries.

If it does, try building Imager, if you're still having problems please include: which files you put where, the output of perl Makefile.PL, and the build output.