Thanks for the quick reply marto and hippo.

 If I can't get the current install I have of Perl working with GD, I will try Strawberry. My biggest problem is the switch. I have logging scripts that run automatically all times of day and night. Really don't want to switch if it means the machine will be in a transitional phase. 

Regarding the libgd - no I haven't installed this. By the looks of the link, I need to do something else besides run a CPANM install. libgd doesn't look to be a perl module. 

I have no experience with trying to install something like this. If there is a binary version of libgd available for an install into Window 10? It didn't look like it from the link. 

Sorry to be such a novice on this, but these non CPANM installs are beyond my experience level. Any comments on my naive needs?