I have a Windows 10 PC.
I want Perl.
I found the following blog post on theitsite:
https://community.activestate.com/t/new-msi-installer-for-activeperl/1626
"New MSI Installer for ActivePerl".
I didn't understand from it how and where should I get an EXE or MSI for Perl?
Where is the MSI / EXE?
This page : https://www.activestate.com/products/perl/
lets me use a PowerShell script, but I don't want it.
Should I manage the Windows environment variables myself?
I do not need multiple installations. just one.
Well -
I found that there is no MSI, also there is no PPM anymore.
There is - instead - the ActiveState package manager called simply "state".
It is first need to be installed via Windows CMD (Command line) - more exactly - PowerShell.
After this each module is installed via "state install XYZ".
There's a need to sign up for an ActiveState Platform account.
It was change probably in July 2020 - two years ago, between perl 5.26 and Perl 5.28 from them.
I found this blog post: https://community.activestate.com/t/new-msi-installer-for-activeperl/1626
Where ActiveState tell about their new way of installers - as follows:
[It] is a web-style installer, which will provide a smaller initial download
Includes the ActiveState Platform command line interface, the State Tool
Thats it for now.
And I managed to have Perl 5.36 from them, at last.
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I installed perl 5.14 version just before, when I executed script display errors perl58.dll missing. How can solve the problem..
how can I solve this problem?
It sounds to me that the thing you're describing as a 'perl script' is actually an executable built from a perl script using ActiveState's perlapp with the --dependent flag. By default, perlapp executables are self contained, but the perl{version number here}.dll can be left out to save space.
Possible courses of action (roughly in order of ease + sanity):
Get the original source from the guy who wrote it, & just run it.
Get the guy who wrote it to update the perlapp executable to a non-dependent version or a version that runs under your installed version of ActivePerl.
Pony up for ActiveState's 'business' subscription to download & install ActivePerl 5.8 (and no other version) on that machine.
Find a copy of the perl58.dll and place it where windows will find it. (may require subscription, or the guy who built the perlapp may have a copy lying about)
Extract the original script from within the .exe and either build a newer (and non-dependent) perlapp or just run it from the source as Larry intended.
Depending on what options were used to build the perlapp executable you may have the origional source lying about in a temp directory. Otherwise I believe you may be able to open it up with a program that understands .zip files, but I've never tried this.
It is also possible that you've got a directory in your path that contains a v5.8 perl.exe but not it's accompanying .dll and that you've asked your newly installed v5.14 perl not to place its directories at the beginning of your path. I don't expect this is the case.
I am using ActivePerl 5.6.1 Build 635 (let's assume that I absolutely have to work with this version and cannot update to a newer one) on a Windows XP machine. The ppm version with this version of Perl is 2.2.0 and is not the same as the ppm for later versions (as mentioned here ). I am trying to accomplish a simple task : INSTALLING THE PERL MODULE "RPC::XML". Here is a list of things I have done :
1 : Tried installing using CPAN (one of many links as to how to do this is here) but the make commands won't run on my command line as I do not have nmake installed.
2 : Tried using ppm. However I get the following error despite using a direct internet connection.
**PPM> search "RPC::XML"
Error connecting to 'http://ppm.ActiveState.com/cgibin/PPM/ppmserver.pl?urn:/PPMServer'.**
Also I have read that some perl modules for versions 5.8 and above are not even compatible with version 5.6. The activeperl website doesn't even have a version for download for verison 5.6 (as can be seen here).
So my problem is simple.
All I want to do is install a perl module (RPC::XML say) on 5.6.1 using 2.2.0. Also let me know why ppm seems to be unable to connect when I am using a simple direct internet connection.
I am about 2 days old to perl. Ignore any noob statements I might have written, and correct me.
The nice folks at ActiveState give free access to their PPM repositories for folks using their 2 latest releases of perl. Access to their legacy repositories is available for a price.
As such your choices seem to be:
install nmake & use cpan (may also require a c compiler for some modules)
install a relatively modern copy of perl (i.e. free support)
shell out cash for an 'enterprise' subscription of ActivePerl and get your stuff via ppm. (Of course even the Activestate folks my not choose to support any software versions that old.)
do without any of the above, manually parse the make file & type in the commands yourself.
I'm not sure if this is the right forum to ask this question . But I'm trying to install Active Perl for IIS in windows 2003 server. I need to build a website in perl. So I want to follow the steps as given in this document
http://www.howtogeek.com/50500/how-to-install-perl-on-iis-6-for-windows-server-2003/
In the steps it is mentioned that download ActiveState Perl distribution package (get the AS zip file and not the installer) " . But I'm unable to find the zip file in this site http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/downloads . I can only see .msi . Please help me in finding in this file
ActiveState has not produced the .zip version for windows in a while. ActivePerl installs from .msi just fine & if it sees IIS is already installed, it will configure itself accordingly. Of course if you strongly prefer a copy of Perl as outdated as the OS you'd like to install it onto, you can always pony up for a Business or Enterprise Edition subscription.
Word to the wise: Server 2003 is under extended support for only another 2 years.
To get the ZIP file instead of the MSI installer, copy the MSI URL to the clipboard, change the extension from .msi to .zip, and then load the file. Today is June 23, 2014 and it has just worked fine for ActivePerl-5.16.3.1604-MSWin32-x86-298023.zip.
I have completed a project on VisualStudio and I have built the .exe file of this project. I wanted to make an installer that will include this .exe file as well as the postgreSQL and perl executable installers because my VB application relies on them to work. So I assume that if I want it to work properly on every windows-based PC I have to include those as well.
Is there a way I can include those 3 .exe(s) in a single setup (let's say .MSI file) and if yes what are the steps required to do so?
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
George.
An MSI shouldn't ever run an EXE installer. For that scenario you need what's called a bootstrapper / chainer. The two are similar except that boostrapper is things that must be installed before your MSI ( like Windows Installer itself ) and chainer are things that get installed along with your MSI.
InstallShield has two features for this. Setup / Feature Prerequisites and Suite Installers. Both can be used to chain together any number of EXE and MSI installers.
For more information see:
Using InstallShield 12 to Install .NET Framework 3.0
People also often ask "How can I compile Perl?" while what they really want is to create an executable that can run on machines even if they don't have Perl installed.
There are several solutions, I know of:
perl2exe of IndigoStar
It is commercial. I never tried. Its web site says it can cross compile Win32, Linux, and Solaris.
Perl Dev Kit from ActiveState.
It is commercial. I used it several years ago on Windows and it worked well for my needs. According to its web site it works on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX.
PAR or rather PAR::Packer that is free and open source. Based on the test reports it works on the Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, NetBSD and Solaris but theoretically it should work on other UNIX systems as well.
Recently I have started to use PAR for packaging on Linux and will use it on Windows as well.
Other recommended solutions?
In addition to the three tools listed in the question, there's another one called Cava Packager written by Mark Dootson, who has also contributed to PAR in the past. It only runs under Windows, has a nice Wx GUI and works differently from the typical three contenders in that it assembles all Perl dependencies in a source / lib directory instead of creating a single archive containing everything. There's a free version, but it's not Open Source. I haven't used this except for testing.
As for PAR, it's really a toolkit. It comes with a packaging tool which does the dependency scanning and assembly of stand-alone executables, but it can also be used to generate and use so-called .par files, in analogy to Java's JARs. It also comes with client and server for automatically loading missing packages over the network, etc. The slides of my PAR talk at YAPC::EU 2008 go into more details on this.
There's also an active mailing list: par at perl dot org.
It is some time since this question was first asked, but Cava Packager can currently produce executable packages for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. It is no longer Windows only.
Note: As indicated by my name, I am affiliated with Cava Packager.
I'm a Perl newbie and I just downloaded Cava Packager and that's the only one I found working. I've tried ActiveState 5.10.1005 and Strawberry Perl with PAR-Packager on Windows XP.
pp just hangs in mid-stream and no executables created.
Cava provides the only solution to creating exe on Windows so far. Thks.
You could use the perlcc tool that's shipped with most distributions of Perl. I've also found both perl2exe and Active State's Perl Dev kit useful for shipping Perl applications.