![]() ![]() ActivePerl ® is ActiveStates commercially supported, quality-assured Perl distribution. Download the ActivePerl 5.8.8 build 820, Windows MSI. To install Perl on inferior operating systems (Windows to the uniformed -), activeperl is a good choice. Weve bundled some of the best packages, tools, and documentation to easily adopt this language in your projects. Using ActivePerl at work Use ActivePerl Business or Enterprise Editions for production servers, and get access to technical support. Double click on the downloaded file name: ActivePerl-5.8.8.820-MSWin339.msi, and follow the installation tool to install ActivePerl to your hard drive at C:\perl. Open a command window, and type in 'perl -v'. If you see the following output, your installation is ok. You can choose to follow RunningProgOnWin page, the very first step is getting perl anyway.ĭownload the 8.6MB Perl 5.6.1 MSI package, and the 2MB Microsoft MSI installer package if required. The rest of this section should not be needed if one follows RunningProgOnWin.įor using the GenBoard/Firmware/BootLoader you also need to install the Win32::SerialPort module. Win32::SerialPort isn't directly available with Active Perl 5.6, but it requires Win32::API which is, so start ppm from command prompt ( C:\Perl\bin\ppm or use the Menu Shortcut) and type "search Win32::API", and then "install 1" (needed because it might find two modules starting with Win32::API). ![]() Next, download Win32::SerialPort from and unzip it to a local directory. You can then open a DOS prompt and cd into the directory to run "perl Makefile.PL", "perl " to test (don't worry about errors :-), then finally "perl " to install it. You can also use a commercial debugger such as Affrus (Mac OS X), Komodo from Activestate (Windows and Mac OS X), or EPIC (most platforms). I couldn't get the automated install of Win32::API to work so I downloaded it from:, unzip and install instuctions are included in README.
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