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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Perl packages question

I'm new to Perl. I dowloaded a perl application, that has such a line in a source file: use PWING::Utils::Utils; It imports a file as it seems. I downloaded a plugin for Eclipse [Perl-Eclipse integration]. When I try to start that file as a perl…
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How to use default path for ActivePerl 5.20 Mac OS X (/usr/bin/perl) instead of /usr/local/ActivePerl...?

I have installed ActivePerl 5.20.2 today on Mac OS X 10.9.5 Checking the version of perl in Terminal (perl -v) I see 5.20.2 So everything seems to be ok. But.. When I start my CGI scripts the script is running under built in perl (which is 5.16) (if…
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Sending an email in Perl on Windows 7 without installing modules

I have been scratching my head trying to figure out how to send an email from Perl on Windows 7. I am unable to install any Perl modules other than what comes default with the Active Perl install. (That means Mime::Lite, Email::Sender, and…
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How do I install Encode::HanExtra for ActivePerl?

I want to enable Encode::HanExtra on Windows XP environment. I can't find the name HanExtra or Encode-HanExtra in PPM GUI. Is there any alias name for it?
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How do I install Perl's Parse::Lex for ActivePerl?

Hi I am using ActivePerl 5.10.1 on Win XP. I can't find Lex package from the PPM list. Can I install other package to enable Parse::Lex?
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How do I install modules in ActivePerl?

I want to install SGML::Parser::OpenSP in ActivePerl. Any idea what steps should I follow?
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Library issue while using perl2exe

I am trying to convert my Perl script to standalone exe. I assume perl2exe is a tool that serves this purpose. More or less. When I am trying to generate the exe file, I am getting library issues. One of the library issues is: Warning: Can't locate…
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perl -V failing on Windows 7, even after uninstall, reinstall, reboot cycle

I'm running 32-bit Windows 7 Starter on a cheap netbook. I used to do most of my experimental coding in ActiveState Perl but switched to node.js and stopped using Perl for some time. I had kept my Perl up to date despite not using it so had the…
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ActivePerl - how to move modules to another installation?

we have two servers (Windows Server 2003 and 2008R2) and it is required of us to move the ActivePerl installation from one to the other. Now I have been successful in installing it and it runs good, but now I see that two additional custom modules…
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Failed to detect DLL path in Win32::API

I am trying to import a C++ DLL in Perl (Active Perl 5.12.2 Build 1202). My Subroutine for this is: sub _import { my ($func,$params)=@_; print "DLL Pass value: $func $params \n"; my $retVal= new…
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ActivePerl ppm error "database disk image is malformed"

After an unexpected interrupt any ppm command gives me this error: C:>ppm ppm gui failed: DBD::SQLite::db selectrow_array failed: database disk image is malformed How can I fix ppm?
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32bit active perl generating corrupt excel file

My code generates an excel 2007 file (.xlsx) from a data structure. I am using Excel::Writer::XLSX module to create the excel file and to populate the workbook. Although the code is working fine with 32bit active perl, while opening the excel,…
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How and when can I use PPMs that weren't built in in ActivePerl 5.18?

I installed ActivePerl 5.18 and discovered that none of the PPM modules were available for download. Poking around on the forums I saw that they said there were delays with module porting. I downloaded 5.16 for now, and was wondering two things: Is…
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Error while installing WWW::Selenium through CPAN

I have installed ActivePerl PPM and Strawberry Perl(Padre). Tried installing WWW::Selenium CPAN from command prompt through perl -MCPAN -e shell install WWW::Selenium It throws the following error Test Summary…
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How to prevent perl to replace unix-only linefeeds?

I have a small routine where I apply some regex over a file and write the whole content to a new file. perl -p -e "myRegexReplace" %INPUT% >%OUTPUT% The script is executed on a windows machine. For testing purpose, I have a file that only contains…
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