GETTING STARTED WITH PERL FOR WINDOWS

[dcrox]

I use perl on unix, but have a project to do on windows. I installed active perl, but getting started has been a pain. On unix, I just make the first line #!/usr/bin/perl -w, but with windows...what do i do to get a script started??

 

[tsdragon]

Try #!C:\perl\bin\perl. That's where active perl usually installs its executable.
Tracy Dryden
tracy@bydisn.com

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[Rajoidea]

Another option (at least what worked for me) is to make sure the path to Perl.exe was in my system path. In my case, all I had to do there was add "C:\Perl\bin" (or wherever you installed Perl) to the path in the system variables part of the environment variables. Then, just because I'm lazy and don't like typing .pl every time I want to run a script, I changed the pathext system variable to include .pl. The format on those variables is pretty clear as soon as you look at them.

Tom Ragsdale
stingray@acl.lanl.gov