Image manipulation under Windows

From: Eric J. Roode (sdn.girths00869_at_zoemail.net)
Date: 04/30/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 21:11:02 -0500

Hi all,

    I need to do some fairly simple image creation and manipulation under
Windows 2000. In the past, I've done this sort of thing under un*x with
Image::Magick (or occasionally, GD).

    So my first thought was that these modules might work under Windows.
They seem to, but the instructions for installing the underlying libraries
were... daunting. The ImageMagick web page was talking about needing to
have the source installed (a 26Mb ZIP file!), and needing to configure IIS
(why?). The GD page has a binary distro available, but the installation
indicates that it requires libpng, which does not have a binary available
for Windows, and I lack a C compiler.

    What should I use? Are there binary distros for the above available?
Better yet, is there another image manipulation module available, which
avoids these problems on the Windows platform?

    (Fwiw, I'm using Active State's freebie perl distribution. No, I do
not wish to install cygwin).

    Thanks in advance!

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