Re: GD::Graph for Win32?

[thunders]

You don't absolutely need a PPM package to install most modules. You just need a program to unzip/untar CPAN packages, either WinZip, or even the perl modules Archive::Zip and Archive::Tar (I think those modules are in the standard PPM repository). You'll also need nmake to build modules from Makefiles.

Once you have all that, you should be able to use CPAN or even better CPANPLUS. At which point you should be able to install the majority of CPAN modules, pretty much any that don't require a GNU make or a compiler, or have UNIX specific code.

[interiot]

And if you need a compiler, that's not too hard either. Perl's README.win32 explains in sufficient detail, but here's a summary:
• Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 is available for free (as in beer), and is enough to build perl itself, so it should work well for modules. (note that Microsoft C++ is the only officially supported compiler for win32 perl)
• If you want something more GNUish, use minGW along with either dmake or pmake.