I am curious why you would think: "I believe I need to use ActivePerl 5.18 rather then 5.20 in Windows 2008 Server?". ActiveState only offers free downloads for their latest 2 revisions. I am not sure that you can even get 5.18 free anymore. I do run AS 5.20.2, 32 bit on my ancient Win XP laptop without problems. I don't see why it wouldn't work with Win 2008 Server, 32 bit unless there is some strange bug with Tomcat. My personal experience tracking the latest stable release from AS has been good (mileage varies). Others know more about Strawberry than myself. | [reply] |
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Do I need to uninstall Perl Directory ActiveState which got installed on C directory rather then D directory. Is there an easy way to fix this or do I need to uninstall ActiveState and delete directories and reinstall to D drive? How Do ensure that ActivePerl gets installed on D directory? THanks Doug
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In windows Perl can be installed in any directory or hard drive on the system, you can have many different versions of Perl installed also.
When you install ActiveState Perl or Strawberry Perl on windows the installer should allow you to pick the location to install Perl to, the installers also likes to add the path to Perl in the windows environment variable "PATH". This gives your Perl script the ability to use the shebang #!perl otherwise if there is no environment variable for the Perl version you want to run. Then you will need to set your shebang to the full path to the Perl interpreter you want to use like #!C:/Perl/bin/perl.exe
The windows environment variable's read from top to bottom or from left to right and will only use the first "PATH" to Perl it reads, some windows versions let you move environment variables around so you can keep a copy of it. Not all uninstallers will remove the environment variable, so that can cause a problem.
Good Luck,
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Why? Do you have a test suite? If the program hasn't changed, changing perl gains you very little or nothing
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