Windows "development environment"?

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Re: Windows "development environment"? by GrandFather (Saint) on Jun 08, 2007 at 03:10 UTC
Some of the following may help: Perl Editors?, Perl Development Environment - Revisited, IDE for perl, Perl IDE DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel	[reply]
Re^2: Windows "development environment"? by nferraz (Monk) on Jun 08, 2007 at 17:09 UTC
If I understood the question corectly, he's not looking for an IDE, but for a web framework. A few years ago I would recommend Apache + mod_perl; nowadays, I strongly recommend Catalyst. Use the standalone web server for development and testing, and Apache + mod_perl for production. It's easy to install: just `install Task::Catalyst` from CPAN, and `install Task::Catalyst::Tutorial` to install all the dependencies you need to follow along with the Tutorial.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Windows "development environment"? by GrandFather (Saint) on Jun 08, 2007 at 19:25 UTC
Either interpretation of the OP is possible. It may be interesting to the OP to note however that at least some of the IDEs allow debugging in a CGI context (I'm familiar with Komodo from ActiveState which does this trick for example). DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel	[reply]
Re: Windows "development environment"? by Zen (Deacon) on Jun 08, 2007 at 03:47 UTC
Perl EPIC. I use it on windows and linux. It's extension to eclipse, which is kind of annoying imho, but it does the job.	[reply]
Re: Windows "development environment"? by marto (Cardinal) on Jun 08, 2007 at 08:25 UTC
Hi wink, Check out http://win32.perl.org. for alternatives to using Visual C++, there are Camel Pack and Strawberry Perl. I use Strawberry Perl on my Windows 2000 laptop at work, and have yet to have any problems. Update: Small update to make it more readable. Hope this helps Martin	[reply]
Re: Windows "development environment"? by Popcorn Dave (Abbot) on Jun 08, 2007 at 07:20 UTC
You might also look at the ConTEXT editor and grabbing a copy of Apache for your laptop. I use it on my laptop with Vista. I'm still hassling with Apache and Vista though. Hope that helps! p.s. If any of the monks know of a good tutorial to get Apache running on Vista, please let me know. Revolution. Today, 3 O'Clock. Meet behind the monkey bars. I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code	[reply]
Re^2: Windows "development environment"? by ww (Archbishop) on Jun 08, 2007 at 21:07 UTC
Good luck (sincerely) on your question but as you clearly know, doing anything on Vista is difficult at best. Heck, I'm still having trouble getting IE to behave (it misrenders a lot of valid .html and css; doesn't get prologs right on .php pages, etc ad nauseum). FWIW, though, Apache 1.x is reputed (untested!) to be installable on Vista.	[reply]
Re^3: Windows "development environment"? by Popcorn Dave (Abbot) on Jun 09, 2007 at 05:55 UTC
Thanks for that! I do have 2.2.4 installed, but running is something else. I did read on one site that running Apache in XP compatibility mode is the ticket, but I still haven't gotten it to run as a service like on a straight XP intalliation. Gotta love Vista... :p Revolution. Today, 3 O'Clock. Meet behind the monkey bars. I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code	[reply]
Re: Windows "development environment"? by TGI (Parson) on Jun 08, 2007 at 16:50 UTC
By development environment you could mean either an IDE or a set of tools that will allow me to run and test code. I assume you mean the latter. You can use mingw to compile most xs based modules for ActivePerl. There are a number of different apache binary distributions for windows. If you are looking for a more unix-like environment, you should use Cygwin. TGI says moo	[reply]