Compiling and Installing Perl

[William C. Smith]

Hello,

How does one compile and install Perl? I have CPAN source, Microsoft
Visual C++ compiler, and my operating system is Windows 2000 Pro.

 

[Paul Lalli]

How does one compile and install Perl? I have CPAN source, Microsoft
Visual C++ compiler, and my operating system is Windows 2000 Pro.

Is there a particular reason you feel the need to compile your own
version of perl?

If not, the most standard Windows distribution of Perl is produced by
ActiveState, and can be found at
http://www.activestate.com/Products/Download/Download.plex?id=ActivePerl

There are other options as well, including the perl that comes with the
Cygwin shell, as well as a bundle package known as "Indigo Perl" (which
I assume you can Google for)

If you really are feeling masochistic enough to want to compile your
own perl executable, you can get the source files from
http://www.perl.com/download.csp and follow the directions in the
standard README and INSTALLING files.

Paul Lalli

 

[John Bokma]

If you really are feeling masochistic enough to want to compile your
own perl executable, you can get the source files from
http://www.perl.com/download.csp and follow the directions in the
standard README and INSTALLING files.

I have compiled Perl in the past on an SGI box, and IIRC was it not that
much work. A lot had to be compiled in those days, and I was lucky that I
had the Developers Option (or how it was called). Masochistic? I would say
no. Useful experience? Who knows

 

[Sisyphus]

..
..

If you really are feeling masochistic enough to want to compile your
own perl executable, you can get the source files from
http://www.perl.com/download.csp and follow the directions in the
standard README and INSTALLING files.

'README.win32' (in the top-level folder of the perl source distro) contains
all the instructions you'll need. If you've got a commercial version of VC6
or VC7 it's actually a fairly trivial exercise (though first time round it
mightn't seem so trivial) - a couple of config options to set in the
Win32/Makefile (which is pretty much self-documenting), then just 'cd' to
the Win32 folder and run 'nmake', 'nmake' test' and 'nmake install'.

If you're using the free command line compiler from Microsoft it's a little
more involved - full details in the aforementioned 'README.win32'.
And if the "free command line compiler" you're using happens to be VC8 (aka
something like .NET 2005), I've read that it's not at all trivial - in fact
I don't know that it has been done.

Cheers,
Rob

 

[Bart Lateur]

If not, the most standard Windows distribution of Perl is produced by
ActiveState, and can be found at

....

For a more complete list of alternatives, check out
Camelpack/VanillaPerl, at
<http://camelpack.sourceforge.net/index.php/Main_Page>

There's an attempt at a complete overview at
<http://camelpack.sourceforge.net/index.php/Other_Perl_Installers>.

 

[William C. Smith]

'README.win32' (in the top-level folder of the perl source distro)
contains all the instructions you'll need.

I downloaded from perl.com - cpan - stable.tar.gz. There is no
'reademe.win32', and the 'compile.bat' file seems to be for Windows CE.
What did I do wrong?

 

[A. Sinan Unur]

I downloaded from perl.com - cpan - stable.tar.gz. There is no
'reademe.win32', and the 'compile.bat' file seems to be for Windows
CE. What did I do wrong?

I just downloaded and extracted stable.tar.gz:

D:\Dload> cd perl-5.8.8

D:\Dload\perl-5.8.8> dir readme.win32
Volume in drive D is DATA
Volume Serial Number is 5039-FABC

Directory of D:\Dload\perl-5.8.8

01/31/2006 07:40 PM 37,473 README.win32
1 File(s) 37,473 bytes
0 Dir(s) 4,817,264,640 bytes free

Sinan

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[Sisyphus]

I downloaded from perl.com - cpan - stable.tar.gz. There is no
'reademe.win32', and the 'compile.bat' file seems to be for Windows CE.
What did I do wrong?

Looks like you've gone into the wince directory. 'README.win32' is up one
level from there. You'll want to edit the 'win32/Makefile' and when you're
ready to build, 'cd' to the 'win32' (not 'wince') folder and run 'nmake',
etc.

Cheers,
Rob

 

[William C. Smith]

I just downloaded and extracted stable.tar.gz:

Thank you for your help. I finally realized that I am hopelessly out
of date. My old ZipGenius was not restoring the folders, just the files.
With release 6, everything works fine.