I'm new to Perl. I dowloaded a perl application, that has such a line in a source file: use PWING::Utils::Utils; It imports a file as it seems. I downloaded a plugin for Eclipse [Perl-Eclipse integration]. When I try to start that file as a perl app, it says it cannot find an imported resource. Now the question is, what a perl pa...
I'm totally new to Perl but I'd like to try it out. I read about two rival distributions available for Windows platform (I guess there's just Perl on other OSes :). Wikipedia says that Strawberry comes with additional dev tools to compile CPAN modules if necessary. Sounds pretty good to me. It also says that ActivePerl has a lot of pr...
cpan fails with this weird error as follows Error: Unable to locate installed Perl libraries or Perl source code. It is recommended that you install perl in a standard location before building extensions. Some precompiled versions of perl do not contain these header files, so you cannot build extensions. In such a case, please build a...
I'm using ActivePerl on a Win 7 box and I want to use the Proc::Reliable CPAN module. It downloaded and installed properly but when I tried to run the following code, it failed at run my $newProc = Proc::Reliable->new() $newProc->run("perl.exe -e print 'hello world'"); I tried a couple things, such as testing the status and trying to...
I am new to perl scripting. I have a Perl program I would like to run in Windows XP. I heard that ActivePerl tool is used to run Perl scrips in Windows. I tried to install ActivePerl but the installation failed. Please help me to install and to run some sample application. ...
I am learning Perl and wrote this script to practice using STDIN. When I run the script, it only shows the first print statement on the console. No matter what I type in, including new lines, the console doesn't show the next print statement. (I'm using ActivePerl on a Windows machine.) It looks like this: $perl script.pl What is the ex...
After installing Active Perl 5.8.8 Build 822 on WindowsXP, I do not see DBD-Oracle in "View All Packages" of Perl Package Manager. The CPAN location of the same is http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBD-Oracle-1.17/, but I don't know the process to manually install this tar(DBD-Oracle-1.17.tar.gz) in ActivePerl. ...