Amphiaraus has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I need help getting Strawberry Perl (Windows version of Perl) to install properly, and to start. Also do I need to add something Perl-related to my Windows PATH variable?

I downloaded it from http://www.perl.org/get.html (see "Perl on Windows" section).

Filename is: strawberry-perl-5.10.1.1.msi

My OS is: Microsoft Windows Version 6.1.7600

Installation appears to have failed since all I see in my C:\PERL is the install file (i.e. nothing happened when I ran the install file):

Directory of C:\PERL

02/24/2010 03:58 PM 30,817,792 strawberry-perl-5.10.1.1.msi
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Re: Need help getting Strawberry Perl (Windows version of Perl) to install and start
by Corion (Patriarch) on Feb 24, 2010 at 22:24 UTC

    Strawberry Perl installs into C:\Strawberry by default, I think.

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Re: Need help getting Strawberry Perl (Windows version of Perl) to install and start
by planetscape (Chancellor) on Feb 25, 2010 at 07:43 UTC
    nothing happened when I ran the install file

    Really? Perhaps a (free) tool such as InstallWatch Pro, which "records modifications made to your PC during the installation of software, hardware, or configuration changes", would be helpful.

    But personally, I'm betting if you look in C:\strawberry\perl, as Corion suggested, you'll find something...

    Update: As far as "starting" perl, what happens when you do Start | Run | cmd, and type perl -v into the resulting command prompt?

    HTH,

    planetscape
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      Thanks all, problem is solved, I was not aware that the installer created C:\strawberry

      My program C:\strawberry\test.pl holds --

      printf "Hello world\n";

      when I run test.pl I get --

      C:\strawberry>perl test.pl

      Hello world

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