The win32.perl.org web site provides references to several Perl distributions for MS Windows. For a long time I have been using ActivePerl from ActiveState but recently I switched to Strawberry Perl. IMHO The only advantage that Active Perl still has over Strawberry Perl is the fact that it comes with Perl Tk which means its easy to ...
I am looking at embedding perl 5.10 in a large C++ application compiled with VC++ 6.0. This leads to two questions. 1) Is it a bad idea to simply use Strawberry Perl as a dependency rather than compile my own perl with VC++ 6.0? Would Strawberry even work given the compiler mismatch? I presume Strawberry is compiled with mingw. I wo...
I currently use Strawberry Perl as my primary Perl distribution. However, I have some applications that make Perl calls through cygwin. These generally fail because they are calling the version of Perl that was packaged with cygwin, and only looking in cygwin's lib folders. How can I modify my cygwin environment to call Strawberry Perl (...
A coworker is trying to use ack (a Perl program) on his Windows machine, having tried it under Linux and decided he definitely wants to use it. He managed to get Strawberry Perl installed on his machine, but can't seem to figure out what to do to make ack run with it from a command prompt. He tried editing the #! line, but I knew that ...
I've got a Strawberry Perl program that accepts a single-file as a command-line argument. How can I set things up such that I can drag and drop the desired file onto the Strawberry Perl program (or a wrapper around it) and the program runs with that file's name as an argument? ...
In the Strawberry Perl distribution for Win32, what is the difference between perl\lib and perl\site\lib? When CPAN modules are installed, are the files all stored in perl\site\lib by default? Is perl\lib reserved for modules that come with the standard Perl distribution? ...
I am attempting to install the GD library using Strawberry perl and GnuWin32. However, when I enter "install GD" in the CPAN shell, the following message appears: 'gdlib-config' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. **UNRECOVERABLE ERROR** Could not find gdlib-config in the search path. Pl...
Strawberry Perl is "Open Source Perl for Windows that is exactly the same as Perl everywhere else". Vanilla Perl "provides a Perl distribution that is as close to the Perl core as possible." Strawberry Perl is built on Vanilla Perl. Both distributions come with a C compiler so that perl modules from CPAN that use XS can be built. What ...
I seem to be having some issues trying to install the signatures module from CPAN using Strawberry Perl 5.10.1 on Windows XP. I get some "undefined reference" errors during linking. I'm guessing that there is something wrong with my B::Hooks::Parser module, but reinstalling that one didn't fix my problem. Here's the output: cpan shel...
I have Strawberry Perl and have msys Perl 5.6 removed. Now perl will invoke Strawberry (due to PATH env) but how do I map the perl command in .pl or other Perl script file which have #!/bin/perl or #!/usr/bin/perl header? I was think to make a hardlink of perl.exe into msys/bin or merge the whole Strawberry inside msys directory, but I'...
I am trying to install DBD::Oracle using the CPAN shell in Strawberry Perl. I initially experienced an error because the Makefile could not locate an OCI library, so I installed the instant client from Oracle. I thought this would fix the problem, but now I get a large mixture of errors and warnings from Oracle.h, dbdimp.h, Oracle.c, O...
I know that Strawberry Perl portable is out there for Perl 5.10.0, but so far, there is not one for Perl 5.10.1. As a result, I'm currently doing some experimental work in getting Strawberry Perl to run from a networked location, just to see what I can get working. I've been able to fake some of it, enough to get some Perl and some too...
I just mangaged to install the perl/Tk module after much struggle. I realise I don't understand what dmake or make etc is actually doing. I am using strawberry perl installed at C:\strawberry. Fisrt I unpacked the module to another directory and ran perl makefile.pl which worked fine. Then I tried dmake which did not work. I guess that...
I'm having trouble installing Template module with Strawberry Perl. cpan Template yields the following: Writing Makefile for AppConfig C:strawberryperlbinperl.exe: not found dmake.EXE: Error code 255, while making 'blib\lib\.exists'` I haven't been able to understand either how to affect the path so dmake will work correctly...
What would be the easiest way to compile a simple perl script to an executable under windows with Strawberry Perl (as I understand it's possible and free). In the past I've used ActiveState compiler and perl2exe and was simple enough ... however, now after a few computer changes and OS updates I've lost the licenses and I'd like to find...
Possible Duplicate: How can I get a working Data::Alias in Perl 5.12? I'm trying to install the Data::Alias package from CPAN and I'm getting compile errors from gcc. I'm on Windows Server 2008: Writing Makefile for Data::Alias cp lib/Data/Alias.pm blib\lib\Data\Alias.pm C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe "-Iinc" C:\strawberry\...
I replaced ActivePerl with Strawberry Perl on my WinXP last week. I found I must run my Perl script with the command of perl myperl.pl; otherwise I only need run myperl.pl before install Strawberry. How can I only run myperl.pl as before? I checked my environment configuration as below. C:\> Path C:\Program Files\ActiveState Komodo ...
I have a perl script that I run from the command prompt: 3 times a day, the problem is now I need to run it every two hours. Im not going to be on an episode of lost so I need some help. Here is the command: Perl C:/test/scripts/edi.pl Does anyone know how this above one line command can be made into an executable (.exe) file so I can ...
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...
I just had some weird behavior from a version of g++ for Windows that I got with Strawberry Perl. It allowed me to omit a return statement. I have a member function that returns a structure consisting of two pointers, called a boundTag: struct boundTag Box::getBound(int side) { struct boundTag retBoundTag; retBoundTag.box = thi...