Hi everyone!

I am new to the PerlMonks community, but I have found many helpful posts in the past when I have worked with Perl. However, I am at a new position and need to maintain/modify some existing scripts for my team but I am running into some problems finding a way to debug Perl scripts with a GUI (my best way to write/test code especially if someone else wrote it).

Anyways, I installed Eclipse with the Epic perl plugin and attempted to debug/run one of the scripts, but I got an error message (Can't locate Expect.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Expect module)). I have never used Expect and after a quick google I realized that Expect.pm module does not play well with windows and even it says that it won't work at all! I also installed ActivePerl which seems like a mistake also haha.

My question is this: What is the best free GUI IDE that I can debug Perl scripts (with Expect) easily/without too much further setup on Windows? I used to do my perl development in Unix enviro so I've seen some suggestions on using Cygwin, but I still don't know how I would set up my Perl IDE to debug while using Cygwin.

Any other questions/clarification you need please ask! I appreciate it very much.

Thanks

In reply to Expect.pm debugging in Windows by bandros

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