Perl Installation On Windows Platform

Perl on windows platform

 

ActivePerl

 

http://www.activestate.com

 

Installation

 

http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/downloads

 

Perl Binaries:

ActivePerl-5.14.2.1402-MSWin32-x86-295342.msi

 

 

Suppose you install ActivePerl under below dir:

 

D:\usr\bin\Perl\Perl5.14.2

 

Configuration ActivePerl on windows platform

 

If you do not select the option to set the installation direction into env %PATH%,

you need do something belows additional:

 

set %PATH% = %PATH%;D:\usr\bin\Perl\Perl5.14.2\bin;D:\usr\bin\Perl\Perl5.14.2\site\bin;

 

Test

 

>perl

D:\home\admin\workstation\perl>perl

 

 

 

>perl -version

 

D:\home\admin\workstation\perl>perl -version

This is perl 5, version 14, subversion 2 (v5.14.2) built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2011, Larry Wall

Binary build 1402 [295342] provided by ActiveState http://www.ActiveState.com
Built Oct  7 2011 15:49:44

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source kit.

Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on
this system using "man perl" or "perldoc perl".  If you have access to the
Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home Page.

>ppm

 

see Diagram 1,2

 

Installation - DBI module

 

ppm

 

command to open Perl Package Manager tool.

 

ppm provides gui tool to install perl packages.

 

or

 

ppm install DBI

 

Installation - DBD MYSQL

 

ppm

 

or

 

ppm install DBD-mysql