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Installation and configuration of Perl Development Environment under Windows

Perl is a practical summary and reporting language loved by developers all over the world. Although it was born and developed on Unix, it also has a place in the field of Windows programming.

I. Overview

Under the leadership of ActiveState and other companies, Perl began to develop steadily from mid-1995, adding not only the standard Perl development environment functions, but also many Windows-oriented functions, such as OLE and COM integration.

In fact, so far all Perl programmers have been able to be sure that the Perl applications they wrote for UNIX servers can run smoothly and stably when they are ported to Windows servers, and even the most troublesome migration problems such as fork implementation have been solved.

And we have reason to believe that Perl/Windows integration will be further developed. The fact that Microsoft has been its main sponsor since the early days of Perl development for Windows is a testament to Microsoft's commitment to Perl support. According to the recent three-year investment agreement signed by Microsoft and ActiveState, the Perl development environment will undoubtedly become part of the future development of Windows.

If you are looking for more information about Perl for Windows, you can find many excellent websites on the Internet, including:

ActiveState

Perl.com

AldoCalpini&single;sPerlLab

RothConsultingPerlPage

EvangeloProdromou&single;sWin32PerlFAQ

Robin&single;sPerlforWin32Page

Whether you want to learn the core features of the Perl language on the Windows operating system, or the following Perl integration tools for Windows, you have to start in the same place, which is to install Perl on Windows:

◆ operates OLE with Perl (objectlinkingandEmbedding, object linking and embedding)

◆ manages the Windows registry through Perl

◆ writes COM objects in Perl (ComponentObjectModel, component object Model)

◆ communicates with other COM objects in the Perl program

◆ uses Perl script to realize dynamic web page in IIS environment

This article is a guide to how to install and configure the Perl development environment on Windows. The next few articles will delve more deeply into Perl's Windows-oriented capabilities.

Before we officially begin, however, we must make it clear that installing Perl is not a simple "click-and-click" process. On the contrary, adding Perl support to Windows is an iterative process. Due to the incredible development vitality of the Perl language itself, not only its core language is in the process of changing, new distributions appear regularly, but also many Perl developers are constantly releasing free new tools through resource collection sites such as CPAN, so "installing" also means regularly upgrading and closely following the development of Perl.

As mentioned earlier, the core organization of the PerlWindows version is ActiveState, and its home page is http://www.activestate.com.

The PerlWindows version can be downloaded from the ActiveState website and the product name is ActivePerl. At the time of this writing, the * distribution of ActivePerl is build522, which can be downloaded directly from http://www.activestate.com/ActivePerl/download.htm.

Windows users please download the Intel version. In addition, as indicated on the download page, DCOM support is also required to install this package on Windows95, and DCOM can be found on the Microsoft website. Downloading with HTTP or FTP is the same, either way.

When the download is complete, you will get a self-unzipped execution file, such as the Api509.exe shown in the following figure. Just double-click the executable to start the installation.

It is important to note that if the Perl development environment is already installed on the system and a process is using it during a new installation, the new installation process may not proceed properly, and you will see a warning window.

If this happens, you should immediately end the installation process, shut down all services / applications that may be using the Perl development environment, and then install again.

If you are using WindowsNT and are not sure which services are using Perl, you can open start-> Settings-> Control Panel-> Services, check the list of services displayed by the system, and find out which services may be using Perl. Turn off these services, and then restart the installation.

Of course, most users don't need to worry about this. In fact, it is very likely that you will see the license agreement statement of ActiveState when you double-click the auto-extract execution file.

After reading and accepting the license agreement, you will see the "InstallationNotes" window, which informs the user of all available installation options for ActivePerl. The description document contains multiple headings, each with a detailed explanation. These headings include:

Perl's bin directory join the search path in Windows Explorer with the ".pl" extension and Perl.exe for the Web server association ".pl" and Perl.exe for the IIS ISAPI association ".plx" and the bottom of the Perl window asks if you have read and understood these instructions.

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