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Re^9: Perl Image Analysis

by gellyfish (Monsignor)

on Oct 06, 2006 at 21:43 UTC ( #576760=note: print w/ replies, xml )

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For .gifs you need a fairly recent version (post the expiry of the .gif patent)

Or of course a really old version before the GIF support was removed over the patent concerns :-)

/j\

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Re^10: Perl Image Analysis
by BrowserUk (Pope) on Oct 06, 2006 at 22:40 UTC

I thought about mentioning that, but then realised that even if you could get your hands on the very old versions of the libgd sources, you'd probably need a very old version of Perl also to make the whole thing hang together.

I did build GD from source once, but it was a pain to do, took ages to gather all the requisite bits together, and was genraly a PITA. Along the way I patched a couple of bugs, but then installed a later version of perl and screwed things up. After that I went back to using PPM to install it.

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