Developers worldwide rely on ActivePerl’s completeness and ease-of-use, while corporate users protect their infrastructure and stay competitive with quality-assured ActivePerl Business Solutions. About ActivePerl ActivePerl is the industry-standard Perl distribution, by ActiveState, available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX. For a complete list of the new modules available visit. release includes new modules for encrypting web connections using https:, creating color graphs and charts, and automating interaction with websites. In addition to adding DBD::Oracle module, the ActivePerl 5. “We have listened to our community and added many requested features,” said Jan Dubois, Senior Perl Developer, ActiveState, “And by bundling these new modules, our users have the ability to use ActivePerl for more problem areas without having to install the modules separately.” A new key component is the DBD::Oracle module, which provides access to Oracle databases. ActivePerl is provided free to the community and is available as a supported and OEM product to enterprises globally. With over 250,000 downloads each month, ActivePerl remains the industry-standard for Perl development. Complete and ready-to-install, ActivePerl includes core Perl, popular modules, the Perl Package Manager (PPM), and complete documentation. provides the cpanm tool, which makes very simple to do.ĪctiveState, the leading provider of tools and services for dynamic languages, is pleased to announce the release of ActivePerl 5.To interact with the command line and run Perl commands, you need to run 'cmd'.is recommended, because you get (Perl packaged for Windows) 5.12.3 as well as many useful modules (especially those that are tricky to install) and the Perl IDE/editor itself.Install by typing in: cpan App::cpanminus Explanation of this setup.To confirm the installation worked type: perl -v.Go to your start menu, then click the 'Perl command' link.and install ( version 5.12.3 comes as part of the install, you also get many other useful CPAN modules as well).(see video below for details), If you do uninstall it through the Window control panel 'add/remove programs', if you still have a C: Strawberry folder rename or delete it Make sure you do not have any version of Perl already installed.Maintenance branches (ready for production use) are even numbers (5.8, 5.10, 5.12 etc).Ī good setup for Perl on Windows (32 and 64 bit): Version scheme Perl has used the following policy since the 5.6 release of Perl. If you want to help out developing new releases of Perl visit the development site and join the perl5-porters mailing list.
Almost all Linux distributions come with Perl, or you are able to install Perl through their package management system.
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