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Installing The Activeware Port
You can always find the
latest build of Win32 Perl at Activeware's web site,
http://www.activeware.com/.
Once you've downloaded the binary (it's a
self-extracting archive), it's ready to be executed.
The archive extracts files to wherever you specify
and then installs itself by adding three keys to the
registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Activeware\Perl5\
BIN : REG_SZ : path to the Perl bin
directory
HTML-DOCS : REG_SZ : path to the docs
directory
PRIVLIB : REG_SZ : path to the Perl lib
directory
It also maps an extension to
the executable so if you type test.pl on a
command line it will be the same as if you had typed
perl test.pl. This extension mapping won't
work in versions of NT lower than 4.0 unless you've
enabled Command Extensions for your command
interpreter (DOS, presumably). This is done by
editing this registry key (you may need to create
it):
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\CommandProcessor\EnableExtensions.
A REG_DWORD of 0x1 will enable the extensions; 0x0
will disable them.
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