Why I can't run perl from Textmate? - perl

Question

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use WWW::Mechanize;
print $WWW::Mechanize::VERSION."\n";
1) run from Textmate :
Can't locate WWW/Mechanize.pm in #INC (#INC contains:
/Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Bundles/Perl.tmbundle/Support
/Library/Perl/Updates/5.10.0
/System/Library/Perl/5.10.0/darwin-thread-multi-2level
/System/Library/Perl/5.10.0
/Library/Perl/5.10.0/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Perl/5.10.0
/Network/Library/Perl/5.10.0/darwin-thread-multi-2level
/Network/Library/Perl/5.10.0 /Network/Library/Perl
/System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.10.0/darwin-thread-multi-2level
/System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.10.0 .) at
/Users/xxx/Development/test.pl line 2. BEGIN failed--compilation
aborted at /Users/xxx/Development/test.pl line 2.
2) run from terminal:
sh-3.2# perl test.pl<br>
1.64
What should I do?

Answer 1

It appears you installed WWW::Mechanize into a directory that isn't searched by default. Most likely, you have a PERL5LIB or other environment variable that adds that directory to Perl's search path, and for some reason that's not set in the environment TextMate provides.
Try running perl -V from the shell and from TextMate and see what the difference in search paths is. You can also add
print "$INC{'WWW/Mechanize.pm'}\n";
to your test script to find out where it's installed.