Questions tagged [activeperl]

ActivePerl is a distribution of Perl from ActiveState (formerly part of Sophos) for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX.

ActivePerl is an ActiveState's precompiled, supported and quality-assured Perl distribution, available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX.

A free edition with only community support is available, as well as a supported Business and a Enterprise edition.

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Is the source of ActivePerl available?

I searched the ActivePerl web site, but didn't get the source download. Is it available to the public? I got some crash in ActivePerl and tried to make quick fix on the source if available.
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Windows XP / active perl 5.12.3 / XML::LibXSLT / unable to install

I am trying to install XML::LibXSLT package on my dev machine but its not working. First of all PPM GUI doesn't even show this package and when i try to install it using cpan i get following error: Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C)…
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Where can I download ActivePerl PPM .zip's or .ppd's? I can't find them anywhere.

I need to download ActivePerl PPM .zips or .ppd's so I can install the MongoDB perl driver on machines that do not have an internet connection. The problem is that all of the links I find in documentation don't point anywhere that lets me download…
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Preparing Installer for State Tool Package Manager. . .x Failed

This is the second part of the question I asked before, related to activestate cli installation on windows 8.1. I have ps V4.0 installed on my machine. When I run the command suitable for ps V4.0, provided by @mklement0 as an answer to my question,…
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Unable to get XML::LibXML to install Mac OS11

I've been trying to get XML::LibXML to install on perl for a few days, and I think I've run into a wall regarding what to try next. As I understand it XML::LibXML needs to know where Libxml2 is located. I've installed Libxml2 with Homebrew, but it…
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What is Win32/Process.pm in @INC?

Setup OpenDDS -3.14 Windows 10 64bit Active Perl 5.8 VisualStudio 2019 I am trying to build OpenDDS and try out the messenger example as given in the instructions. The configure commanded executed, but I got the following error. What is this error…
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Perl: How do I add encoding to PAR packed archive

The following program: use Encode qw(:all); my @list = Encode->encodings(); print join("\n", @list); gives different results if I run script as .pl or as executable, created by pp.bat (ActiveState Perl is used) If I run a.exe, created by pp.bat…
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Generation exe file from perl script using active state perl 5.26

I want to convert my perl script to .exe using Active state perl 5.26 in windows 10. I tried searching it but found it for older versions. I can't find Par::paker for active perl 5.26. Is pp not supported for 5.26? What's the alternative for pp…
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Error using perl module DBD::mysql in ActivePerl 5.28 on Windws10 64bits

I installed the new ActiveState Perl custom build with Perl 5.28 and I added the module (DBD-mysql v4.50). The DBI module is set by default to the ActivePerl 5.28 compilation. use strict; use warnings; use diagnostics; use DBI; ### INIT DB…
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Installing WWW::Curl on WIndows 7, running into "List form of pipe open not implemented"

Trying to install WWW:Curl on Windows. So far I've done all of the following as per this page: http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/SZBALINT/WWW-Curl-4.15/README.Win32 I am in the process of modifying Makefile.PL, but when it tries to run cpp (I changed…
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Perl (difference between windows and linux)

I use the following Perl code without any problems in Ubuntu, but when I try it in XP using activeperl it hangs, no error messages, just a blank screen. Are there any issues I should be aware of when moving code between standard perl and active perl…
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Win32::OLE with C# DLL and returned objects

I've created a working example calling a C# DLL from ActivePerl using Win32::OLE. However, as expected out parameters on the C# side are not updated on the perl side, but also 'complex' types (such as List instead of int[]) do not work. While I…
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DWIM not installing when ActivePerl present

I have ActivePerl already installed but when now I am trying to install DWIM package, it is not openeing. Its installed but whenever I try to open the Padre IDE it gives the below error. . I read that we can have two Perl versions - ActivePerl and…
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Inability to install Spreadsheet::ParseXLSX or Spreadsheet::XLSX using ppm with ActivePerl v5.22.1

I need to read .xlsx and .xlsm files from PERL scripts, but am having trouble installing an XLSX parser using ppm. Am using ActivePerl version 5.22.1. I have no problem installing and using Spreadsheet::ParseExcel (which only works on .xls files…
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Perl program to connect oracle database from different system

I have a perl program which connects to oracle database and fetch details,Which is perfectly working from same host(cu394.cloud.net) my $dbh = DBI->connect( "dbi:Oracle:host=cu394.cloud.net;sid=ora", "ctfuser238", "ctfuser238" , {'RaiseError' =>…
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