Re^2: Post installation tests for a wrapper to a CLI utility?

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Here's a 101 type question wrt Windows. I don't know much about Perl on Windows. I played around with ActiveState Perl like 15 years ago and that's about the extent of my knowledge. I do have access to a Windows 8 machine in VirtualBox which does not have Perl installed. What are the basic steps I need to take to install my module on that machine manually (it's not yet available on CPAN) to be able to run tests on it? Also, do I need to worry about differences between Window 8 and Windows 10 or any other flavor of Windows? And is Active State Perl still the standard? I know there is Strawberry Perl now.

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Re^3: Post installation tests for a wrapper to a CLI utility? by marto (Cardinal) on Jan 31, 2018 at 09:36 UTC
ActiveState has never been a standard. Make life easy on yourself, just install Strawberry, and use cpanm (`cpanm .` within the directory containing your module) to install & test your modules.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Post installation tests for a wrapper to a CLI utility? by soonix (Chancellor) on Jan 31, 2018 at 10:47 UTC
Seconding marto. Additional tip: If you want to test with different versions, don't use the installer, but use the "ZIP" and/or "Portable" editions from http://strawberryperl.com/releases.html. That's what berrybrew (also mentioned here) uses, too.	[reply]
Re^3: Post installation tests for a wrapper to a CLI utility? by VinsWorldcom (Prior) on Jan 31, 2018 at 13:06 UTC
Third marto, and second soonix - I moved to Strawberry back in 2008 and never looked back. I use Perl pretty much exclusively on Windows and unless a module is specifically written for *nix, Strawberry works great, installs from CPAN and just works. As a side note, the bundled GCC compiler let's me write and compile the (fairly small amount) of C programming I do.	[reply]
Re^3: Post installation tests for a wrapper to a CLI utility? by Marshall (Canon) on Jan 31, 2018 at 20:48 UTC
This group is heavily biased towards Strawberry. I am still using ActivePerl as do some other Monks. ActivePerl is certainly not a "standard". I don't think that Strawberry qualifies either. However, both will work just fine. I often write code that other folks need to run on their Windows machines. Some of these folks don't know much if anything at all about Perl and aren't used to working with a command line. The ActiveState installation process on Windows is straightforward and the latest incarnations work well. With ActivePerl, I can generate an XML package file. I give my user the command to run this file and result is that my installation is "cloned" - the user now has my entire dev environment via a single step. With a pre-compiled and tested ActiveState .ppd files, the installation goes quickly - the longest part is generating the local HTML documentation files. With ActiveState, you can install the ActiveState cpan module and this comes with the correct compiler to make "from scratch" binary compatible modules (perhaps including XS parts) to the standard distribution. Anway just saying in some situations, ActivePerl can work out well.	[reply]