Path: usenet.cise.ufl.edu!huron.eel.ufl.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.ultranet.com!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!news.Stanford.EDU!su-news-feed2.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!news.neta.com!not-for-mail From: Boris Lantrewitz Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.misc Subject: Perl Win32 binary installation Followup-To: comp.lang.perl.misc Date: 2 Jun 1998 18:45:45 GMT Organization: Ye 'Ol Disorganized NNTPCache groupie Lines: 113 Approved: merlyn@stonehenge.com (comp.lang.perl.announce) Message-ID: <6l1h8p$q4c$1@news.neta.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gadget.cscaper.com X-Disclaimer: The "Approved" header verifies header information for article transmission and does not imply approval of content. Xref: usenet.cise.ufl.edu comp.lang.perl.announce:67 comp.lang.perl.misc:17880 On hand I have a binary Installation of Perl for Win32 built on Gu- rusamy Sarathy's most recent bindistribution. It is compiled with Innosetup 1.08h by Jordan Russell: and is _simple_ to handle. -- initial graphic setup -- easy deinstallation -- no need to care about documentation of Win32-Modules without POD -- easy access to documentation for (double-click on "*.pm" / "*.pod") -- icons for Modules, Scripts, POD-Files Here is the "installation.txt" it comes with: ----------------------------------------------------------------- Notes concerning the binary installion of the Perl-Win32 Core Distribution The Installation can be cleanly uninstalled (except for the newly generated subdirectories and hence the Perl directory itself). You can do this via Startmenu or via Control panel (Add/Remove Software). If You have been installing the distribution as Administrator, the icons will be created in the All Users profile. You will only be able to deinstall this Perl distribution cleanly as Administrator in this case. If You have been installing the distribution as a normal user, the icons will be created in Your own profile only. The Perl shell item in Your Startmenu is only a command interpreter with the path proPerly set for this Perl distribution. The Installation is based on the most recent binary Perl distribution of Gurusamy Sarathy, which may be found under the author's name or GSAR on any CPAN-Site and contains only marginal add-ons (libwin32 was upgraded to version 0.10 instead of 0.08, AdminMisc is fresh from the Author, Dave Roth, see beyond). The content of Artistic.txt and Readme.txt applies to this Installation and to the files it is based on as well. The FixEnvironment.pl-script should set the Environment Variables for this Perl to be the one which is in Your path. (It can be found in the bin subdirectory). Further important notes: All the modules have been written by the Perl community and not by me. For bugs in the modules please contact the maintainer. (The name is usually included in the documentation or in the module (foo.pm). If You need more documentation than is found in the html-subdirectory or the lib\Pod-tree of the installation, locate the module (foo.pm) and double-click on it. This should start a tkpod-Window showing the POD (Plain Old) Documentation contained in the module itself. Double-clicking on a in the lib\Pod subdirectory should do the same. (The lib\Pod directory contains all the documentation of the basis modules). If tkpod fails for any reason, try Perldoc . This should nearly always work. Documentation for the Win32-Extensions can be accessed by Netscape(3.01+) or IE(3.+). Switch on support for JAVA SCRIPT and open the file html\lib\site\win32\main.html in the Perl installation tree. You will find quite a complete overview of the Win32::-Modules and an outdated FAQ, which might anyway be useful. Parts of the documentation are specific to the ActiveWare Build of Perl for Win32, which was the first and still is the "official" build of Perl for Win32. ActiveWare's versioning is done in build numbers (306) instead of standard Perl version Numbers. ActiveWare Perl is developed by ActiveWare Internet Corp., but copyrighted by Microsoft. Nearly all of the HTML-documentation stuff for Win32 is from Philippe Le Berre and is left in almost it's original state. The Win32::AdminMisc documentation is fresh from the author's (Dave Roth,) site. The FAQ has been created (and is, hopefully, maintained) by Evangelo Prodromou . Any Company Logos are copyrighted by their respective owners. 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