Re: A Perl Environment

Two options really, go for ActiveState's version of Perl, or install CygWin to have a UNIX-like compatibility layer, and use the normal Perl for UNIX on it.

Personally I tend to go for the Cygwin solution since it means my scripts are more likely to work on the UNIX servers we use without needing modification, and also because I generally find Cygwin in and of itself to be a very useful thing to have installed on a Windows machine as it provides the UNIX command line tools I tend to use a lot.

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Re: Re: A Perl Environment
by crazyinsomniac (Prior) on Mar 04, 2003 at 15:45 UTC

All you need is a compiler, and the perl source.

Get source at cpan.org. Get free compiler. There are two that are supposed to work, Borland (i can verify it works, look for freecommandlinetools.exe) and MinGW (i tried, didn't work for me)

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Re: Re: A Perl Environment
by mkahn (Beadle) on Mar 04, 2003 at 20:56 UTC

activestate - love it. Reference material, tuts, snippets, oh and uh, the app. How do I teach my browser to use it when I try to run things from the address line? Its on my 98 box. cygwin - Wouldn't go in. Any other unix shell emulator reccomendations?

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