GD is there for PHP, but I'm not sure how to link it to Perl.
Ended up downloading GD and extracted it to a folder called: GD
I then did the CPAN command "install GD" and got these errors. I have tried putting the GD files in some of the PERL libraries but to no avail. I suspect that the files have to be in some specific Perl folder, but I can't find this info on the Internet anywhere. They assume I would know where to put the GD library.
This is what I get.
cpan[5]> install gd
Use of uninitialized value $_[0] in string eq at I:/xampp/perl/lib/File/Spec/Win
32.pm line 152, <FIN> line 5.
Warning: no success downloading '\xampp\perl\bin\.cpan\sources\authors\01mailrc.
txt.gz.tmp4984'. Giving up on it. at I:\xampp\perl\lib/CPAN/Index.pm line 225
Client not fully configured, please proceed with configuring.
You have not configured a urllist and do not allow connections to the
internet to get a list of mirrors. If you wish to get a list of CPAN
mirrors to pick from, use this command
o conf init connect_to_internet_ok urllist
If you do not wish to get a list of mirrors and would prefer to set
your urllist manually, use just this command instead
o conf init urllist
Some additional notes: I also tried putting the .tar.gz file in several Perl libraries, thinking that it would unzip the files. I also tried connecting to the internet for mirrors from the shell as was suggested in the message above, but could not connect to the internet via the XAMPP shell.