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- You are reading: INSTALL.TXT
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- ** For detailed information on what is included in this release, please **
- ** refer to the file 'RELEASE.TXT'. **
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- Installing the binary-only release of Perl for Win32
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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- To install the binary version of Perl for Win32, do the following:
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- (1) Run 'install' from the command line
- (this is located in \Perl which must be the current directory)
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- This script will do the following:
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- - Add Perl related entries to the Registry.
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- - Create the directory \Perl\bin.
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- If this directory already exists, then it will look
- in there for the file 'perl.exe'. If the file
- exists, it will be run to determine its version
- number and then renamed to 'perl.{version #}.exe'.
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- - If it's not already there, it will add '\Perl\bin'
- to your path.
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- A log of the installation session will be created in the file
- '\Perl\install.log'.
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- (2) Copy any of your own scripts or library files into the '\Perl\bin'
- directory.
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- In the previous step, this directory was added to your path.
- By copying your own scripts into this directory, you should be
- able to run them from any other directory.
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- Building Perl for Win32 from a source release
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- Perl for Win32 has been developed using Microsoft Visual C.
- A makefile has been provided to build Perl for Win32 using the SDK as well.
- To build Perl for Win32 do the following:
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- (1) Build executables
- Using Visual C++
- Start Microsoft Visual C and load 'Perl\exe-src\perl.mak'
- Build both PerlGlob and Perl using the targets predefined for
- your platform
- load Perl\dll-src\perl100.mak and build perl100.dll
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- Using SDK
- Run 'nmake /f perl.mak "Perl Intel Release" "PerlGlob Intel Release"'
- from the 'Perl\exe-src' directory.
- This will build Perl.exe and PerlGlob.exe
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- (2) After the build, you should test the Perl binary by running a series of test
- scripts. This is done by running 'test' in the directory
- 'Perl\ntt'. It will report upon all functions tested, and
- any not currently implemented.
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- (3) Run 'install', located in Perl\
- This will copy perl.exe,perlglob.exe and perl100.dll to the Perl\bin directory and
- perform the rest of the installation process. (see above for more details)
-
- ** For detailed information on what is included in this release, please **
- ** refer to the file 'RELEASE.TXT'. **
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