Concerning debuggers, have you tried Devel::hdb ? We used it at $job - 1 and I liked it a lot. It's not text oriented: it runs in your browser.

($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-||-|5+lengthSq)`"S|oS2"`map{chr |+ord
}map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,
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For quite some time now, I've been using intelliJ IDEA as my IDE, with the Camelcade Perl5 Plugin, and Devel::Camelcadedb distribution, which provides full-blown, in-IDE debugging. (On a side note, I also use the IdeaVim plugin, because I can't code without vi/vim ;)

32 and 64 bit support, and cross-platform (I use it on both *nix and Windows).

Because of the way I learned Perl, I usually edit in my favorite text editor (vim in linux, Notepad++ in windows) and run in the command line, and debug using copious print statements. :-).

But for Windows development, I have followed the advice of Notepad++ Integrated Perl Debugging and occasionally use Notepad++ as a front-end for interactive debug when my print-ing isn't sufficient. There are 32bit and 64bit versions of Notepad++, but the DBGP plugin is only available for the 32bit version. However, I successfully use the 32bit Notepad++ on 64bit Windows on a daily basis, and haven't found any problems. And that setup can call either my 32bit or my 64bit Strawberry Perl, whichever I point it to, so the bitness of the editor doesn't influence the choice in the bitness of the interpreter. But it's a quirky setup, so I wouldn't go so far as to "recommend" it -- I use it, but not always, so it's probably best to just list it as a potential, not the "best" or "recommended".

I'm not a developer by trade, but do all my Perl coding - whatever little there is - on Windows, with Strawberry. I use Notepad++ with a bunch of plugins including DBGp which originally was just for PHP debugging, but I hacked to support Perl. It works nicely for my use cases, may be a bit buggy, but it is FREE.

You can find out more information here:

• Notepad++ Integrated Perl Debugging
• Notepad++ Perl Function List with "Classes"

UPDATE: pryrt beat me to it! Thanks for the plug.

I use Eclipse with the EPIC Perl plug-in.

Komodo Edit is the (limited) free version, I suppose it still has debuger integration.

Emacs has by default similar debugger integration, but key oriented and less "visual" (i.e. you don't click buttons, see description, Screenshot. And it has more of a learning curve.

In the end all IDE supports are just wrappers around the functionality of perldebug

edit

should be noted that Komodo builds on XUL which IIRC Mozilla stopped developing further. I'm ignorant what this means for the future of Komodo.

Hi,

This comment is way too late, and I am not sure if you are okay with Vim, but, there's a way to run gVim on Windows. You just need to install the plugins. Syntastic plugin highlights the errors as soon as you save the file. It's working fine for me. I can provide my github repo links to you in case you need it.

Here's the link: https://github.com/pritesh-ugrankar/vimfiles

I can provide my github repo links to you in case you need it.

You could also share the links with everyone around. Just post the links.

Alexander

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Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)

I have been looking for something similar as well very recently and failing consistently and miserably.

Is there a free IDE for Strawberry Perl, running in Windows, that is both visual and interactive?

Is there any kind of Interactive Development Environment which isn't interactive?

For that matter, is there any kind of IDE which isn't visual?

Integrated

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_development_environment

The "i" in IDE is for Integrated, not Interactive