ActivePerl Documentation
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Getting Started
Welcome To ActivePerl Release Notes Readme ActivePerl Change Log Install Notes Linux Solaris Windows ActivePerl Components Overview PPM Windows Specifics OLE Browser PerlScript Perl for ISAPI PerlEZ ActivePerl FAQ Introduction Availability & Install Using PPM Docs & Support Windows Specifics Perl for ISAPI Windows 9X/NT/2000 Quirks Web Server Config Web programming Programming Modules & Samples Embedding & Extending Using OLE with Perl Windows Scripting Active Server Pages Windows Script Host Windows Script ComponentsCore Perl Documentation
perl perlfaq perltoc perlbook perlsyn perldata perlop perlreftut perldsc perllol perllexwarn perldebug perlrun perlfunc perlopentut perlvar perlsub perlmod perlpod perlstyle perlmodlib perlmodinstall perltrap perlport perlsec perlref perlre perlform perllocale perlunicode perlboot perltoot perltootc perlobj perlbot perltie perlipc perlnumber perlfork perlthrtut perldiag perlfaq1 perlfaq2 perlfaq3 perlfaq4 perlfaq5 perlfaq6 perlfaq7 perlfaq8 perlfaq9 perlcompile perlembed perlxstut perlxs perlguts perlcall perlfilter perldbmfilter perlapi perlintern perlapio perltodo perlhack perlhist perldelta perl5005delta perl5004delta perlamiga perlcygwin perldos perlhpux perlmachten perlos2 perlos390 perlvms perlwin32Pragmas
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ActivePerl FAQ |
- NAME
- DESCRIPTION
- What is Perl?
- Where can I get tons of information about Perl?
- Where can I get the ActivePerl interpreter?
- What do I get with ActivePerl?
- How do I install ActivePerl?
- Should I unset any Perl related environment variables before installing ActivePerl?
- How can I customize my installation of ActivePerl?
- How do I uninstall ActivePerl?
- What is ActiveX Scripting?
- Is there an ActiveX Scripting version of Perl available?
- When I double-click the perl.exe icon in Explorer, I get
- How can I get Perl to run a Perl script at the 4DOS command line by
- Can I build perl from the source code?
- AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
NAME
ActivePerl faq1 - Availability and Installation
DESCRIPTION
Getting, installing, and using Perl.
What is Perl?
Perl is a scripting language widely used for system administration and programming on the World Wide Web. It originated in the UNIX community and has a strong UNIX slant, but usage on Windows is growing rapidly. ActivePerl is a port of core Perl to Windows.
perl (small 'p') is the program used to interpret the Perl language.
Where can I get tons of information about Perl?
Extensive online documentation is included with Perl itself. You can read the
documentation with the perldoc command, as in perldoc
document_name. You should start with the perl document and the perlfaq
document. For information on other ways of accessing the Perl documentation
(including HTML versions of this documentation), see Where
can I get documentation on ActivePerl?.
To get more information about Perl, check out these URLs:
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http://www.ActiveState.com - The ActivePerl Home Page.
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http://www.perl.com - The Perl home page.
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http://language.perl.com - The Perl language home page.
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http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Programming_Languages/Perl/ - The Yahoo Perl page.
There are several good books about Perl. The premier book on ActivePerl is Learning Perl On Win32 Systems By Schwartz, Olson, and Christiansen (O'Reilly & Associates, 1997). This is the Gecko book, and has a picture of a gecko (little chubby lizard with big toes and a smile) on the front cover.
For general perl, two books to consider are Programming Perl, 2nd Edition, by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen and Randal L. Schwartz (O'Reilly & Associates, 1996) and Learning Perl, by Randal L. Schwartz (O'Reilly & Associates, 1993). These are referred to by Perl enthusiasts as the Camel book and the Llama book, respectively.
If you are new to Perl and there are any terms mentioned in this FAQ that you don't get, try one of the above resources. See the perlbook document that comes with Perl for more information.
Where can I get the ActivePerl interpreter?
ActivePerl is available from the ActiveState home page.
To download ActivePerl from ActiveState, look in this directory:
http://www.ActiveState.com/ActivePerl
What do I get with ActivePerl?
ActivePerl is a complete, self-installing distribution of Perl based on the standard Perl sources. It is distributed online at the ActiveState site.
"Perl for Win32" generally refers to ActivePerl for Windows.
How do I install ActivePerl?
Should I unset any Perl related environment variables before installing ActivePerl?
The short answer is yes!! If you have environment variables such as PERLLIB, PERL5LIB or PERL5OPT set, incompatible versions of modules may be used during the installation process and this may cause the installation to fail. If you have any of these environment variables set, you should temporarily unset the variables, reboot the system and then attempt the installation of ActivePerl. These environment variables are checked by all installed versions of Perl, if you have multiple versions of Perl installed it is not a good idea to set these environment variables globally.
Can I build perl from the source code?
The Perl source code includes complete instructions on building Perl. You can obtain the latest Perl source from:
http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/latest.tar.gz
Once you extract the source, read the README file for instructions on compiling Perl.
AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
This FAQ was originally assembled and maintained by Evangelo Prodromou. It has been revised and updated by Brian Jepson of O'Reilly & Associates, David Grove, David Dmytryshyn, David Sparks and Michael Smith of ActiveState.
This FAQ is in the public domain. If you use it, however, please ensure that you give credit to the original authors.
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