Using Perl on a Windows Machine

[andycruce]

I am using perl with PerlBuilder2 on a Win 2000 machine. I would like to make use of DBI.pm to improve on the flat file databases I have been using. I have been trying to figure out how to install a Perl Module on my windows system and haven't had much luck - I'd love to know where to go to find out how to do this. Any suggestion?

I have also tried running perl from the command line prompt and can't figure out what is going on. I run perl.exe and get a dos window without any kind of prompt. If I type
% print "hello"; I get an error
typing anything without a leading % is ignored
typeing

% perl 'print"hello";' doesn't work either.

Any suggestions?

 

[MikeLacey]

Hi Andy,

Sounds like you've probably got all of the things you need already in place actually.

If you're using ActiveState's Perl from

http://www.activestate.com

then the DBI and the file DBD's are already installed on your machine.

I'm not familiar with PerlBuilder but I would be surprised if any Windows Perl utility wouldn't work with ActivePerl.

To run a simple Perl script on your machine, save the following into the file "myscript.pl".

print "Hello World\n";

and then call the script like this:

perl myscript.pl

Your aims sound quite achievable, it just sounds as if you need to do a little reading. You'll likely find the Perl HTML documentation on your system under the directory c:\Perl. Mike
________________________________________________________________

"Experience is the comb that Nature gives us, after we are bald."

Is that a haiku?
I never could get the hang
of writing those things.

 

[andycruce]

Thanks Mike - I got it all going after I made this post. As it turns out I was able to find the same database program my hosting company uses mysql and down load a windows version onto my machine. I then got the DBD from active state and installed it. After that it was supprisingly easy to get everything running.

Thanks for the help

Andy