Re^3: Expect.pm debugging in Windows

What you are describing is very obscure in many dimensions

Windows X Expect.pm X Debugger X EPIC/Eclipse

My guess (???) is your real problem is remote debugging . °

Like already said does the perl-debugger allow bidirectional communication via sockets.

Like this you can run your script with Expect.pm on a Linux machine, even in a VM, and debug it from Windows.

I'd be very surprised if EPIC didn't allow that.

If that is not the answer you are seeking for, please try to split your general question into more specific parts

i.e. tell us what's wrong with

Expect.pm
Windows
Perl Debugger
Eclipse / EPIC

I'm afraid, there is no IDE which will help you overcome conceptional problems.

Cheers Rolf
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update

°) Another guess is that you just need to install Expect.pm inside cygwin's Perl installation. This has nothing to do with debugger or IDE.

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Re^4: Expect.pm debugging in Windows by bandros (Novice) on Apr 30, 2019 at 17:27 UTC
I think your last point (installing Expect.pm through Cygwin) might be the path of least resistance for this problem! Like I said, I would be able to provide more details but I am kind of left to my own devices (and Google) to figure this out. The main issue is just that I am trying to debug this Perl script (so I can step through/set breakpoints etc) using EPIC plugin for Eclipse IDE (because that is what I am most familiar with for debugging Perl scripts), and I have ActivePerl installed as my Perl interpreter. From what I have read it seems like this is not the correct way to do it in Windows OS (and I am only used to doing Perl in a Linux VM that I had at my old job). Right now though I cannot modify my own computer software (need admin access) so I am attempting to get that access so I can try out Cygwin install method that you mentioned above. I really really appreciate your feedback to solve this problem! I apologize if I was not descriptive enough or too vague as to explaining what the issue actually is. The error message that I got from the Perl interpreter is this: "Can't locate Expect.pm in @INC" and after googling it seemed like its not straightforward to install that module using ActivePerl on Windows. Hopefully that helps! Thanks so much for your help!	[reply]

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Re^4: Expect.pm debugging in Windows
by bandros (Novice) on Apr 30, 2019 at 17:27 UTC

I think your last point (installing Expect.pm through Cygwin) might be the path of least resistance for this problem! Like I said, I would be able to provide more details but I am kind of left to my own devices (and Google) to figure this out.

The main issue is just that I am trying to debug this Perl script (so I can step through/set breakpoints etc) using EPIC plugin for Eclipse IDE (because that is what I am most familiar with for debugging Perl scripts), and I have ActivePerl installed as my Perl interpreter. From what I have read it seems like this is not the correct way to do it in Windows OS (and I am only used to doing Perl in a Linux VM that I had at my old job).

Right now though I cannot modify my own computer software (need admin access) so I am attempting to get that access so I can try out Cygwin install method that you mentioned above. I really really appreciate your feedback to solve this problem! I apologize if I was not descriptive enough or too vague as to explaining what the issue actually is. The error message that I got from the Perl interpreter is this: "Can't locate Expect.pm in @INC" and after googling it seemed like its not straightforward to install that module using ActivePerl on Windows. Hopefully that helps!

Thanks so much for your help!

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