<FONT face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size=2> <P style="MARGIN: 
0px"> Hi everyone,</P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">&nbsp;</P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">I'm used to ins
talling perl modules in Unix but I'm having to learn how to do that in windows also. I'm hav
ing a very hard time with it. Currently I'm trying to install GD&nbsp; perl module in window
s. It is not available through ppm so I'm trying to do it manually, but I have not succeeded
 yet.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">&nbsp;</P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">First of all,</P><P style="
MARGIN: 0px"> it asks for prereqs of:</P><P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT size=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbs
p;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The gd graphics library: <A href="h
ttp://www.boutell.com/gd/" target=blank> http://www.boutell.com/gd/</A> </FONT></P><P style="
MARGIN: 0px"> <FONT size=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;The PNG graphics library:http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html</FONT> </P><P 
style="MARGIN: 0px"> <FONT size=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp
;&nbsp;&nbsp; The zlib compression library:<A href="http://www.gzip.org/zlib/" target=blank> 
http://www.gzip.org/zlib/</A> </P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I'm not able to do this. But moreover, in u
nix I typically just download the file, unzip it and perform:</P> <P>makefile.pl</P><P>make</
P> <P>install</P><P>Whats the equivalent of this procedure in Windows?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Any
 guidance would be really appreciated.</P> <P>thanks</P><P>dhivya</P></FONT></FONT>