How do I invoke a Perl script on Windows?

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How do I invoke a Perl script on Windows?

Hello, I tried compile apache 2.2, my Visual Studio 2008 returned error on RC. After some googling, I found this explanation:

What appears to have happened is that you've opened it up unsuccessfully in Visual Studio; before you convert to an .sln file + .vcproj files, it's important to invoke the perl script

perl srclib\apr\build\cvtdsp.pl -2005

which will do evil things to the .dsp file syntax, breaking them forever but allowing us to work around a visual studio bug. Then, load the Apache.dsw into a modern visual studio; it should 'just work'.

Can anyone explain to me how to invoke Perl script on Windows?

Thank you

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The two distributions of Perl for Windows that you could get are

Strawberry Perl (A new distribution that integrates a C compiler to have the CPAN archive fully working on Windows)
ActivePerl (The most common distribution but the CPAN doesn't work)

Just install one of them as this script doesn't seem to use any thing fancy.

VirtualBlackFox 2009-03-09 12:24:46

Thanks mate. It works.

2009-03-09 12:46:52

Could you explain the non-working CPAN in A.Perl ? I just installed A.Perl the other day, for similar purposes as above, and although I haven't tried downloading anything from CPAN, the Package manager seems to be working.

ldigas 2009-03-09 18:03:47

The CPAN is a source repository, sometimes containing C source code for glue with operating system. So you need a full C compiler to use it, ActivePerl uses PPM (binary) repository instead of directly using CPAN. It doesn't contain all CPAN modules only most of them.

VirtualBlackFox 2009-03-10 00:32:55

You can also get perl from the cygwin environment, although it's mostly designed to work within the cygwin environment and not the Windows environment.

Chris Cleeland 2009-11-24 17:42:03

Also since it is Windows make sure the Perl interpretor is in your system path.

Size_J 2009-03-11 00:04:23

Oddly enough, that's a Unix requirement too! :-)

Adrian Pronk 2009-03-11 23:30:15

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