Getting 'permission denied' error trying to run perl under cygwin

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Re: Getting 'permission denied' error trying to run perl under cygwin by Corion (Patriarch) on Jun 17, 2009 at 09:45 UTC
Cygwin attempts to make Unix paths appear on Windows, which means that programs written with a Unix system in mind will work, but anything using a Windows path will not work. The likely fix for your program is not to think of Windows and to think you are on Unix: `#!/bin/perl print "Hello World\n";` [download] or maybe `#!/usr/bin/perl print "Hello World\n";` [download] ... or alternatively, use the Cygwin syntax to get at Windows files: `#!/cygdrive/c/Cygwin/bin/perl print "Hello World\n";` [download] If you don't need the rest of the Cygwin utilities or libraries and just want to have Perl on Windows, I recommend using Strawberry Perl, which gives you Perl, a C compiler and the environment to install modules.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Getting 'permission denied' error trying to run perl under cygwin by McDarren (Abbot) on Jun 17, 2009 at 09:45 UTC
perl.exe is already executable (I hope). You need to make your script executable, or pass it to perl. So either: `chmod +x hello.pl` [download] or: `perl hello.pl` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Getting 'permission denied' error trying to run perl under cygwin by apl (Monsignor) on Jun 17, 2009 at 12:22 UTC
Define I run hello.pl If you'd specified `hello.pl`, then your script is not executable, not should it (necessarily) be. You may have to specify `perl hello.pl`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Getting 'permission denied' error trying to run perl under cygwin by Khen1950fx (Canon) on Jun 17, 2009 at 10:41 UTC
I agree with McDarren. First, make sure that perl2exe is in your path. Then, from the commandline just: `perl2exe -platform=Win32 myscript.pl`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Getting 'permission denied' error trying to run perl under cygwin by marto (Cardinal) on Jun 17, 2009 at 12:34 UTC
McDarren makes no mention of indegoStar's perl2exe utility, the OP isn't asking how to convert a script to a stand alone executable. Martin	[reply]