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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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Why does my ActivePerl program on Windows stop accepting socket connections?

I'm using fork() on Perl on Windows (ActivePerl) for a basic socket server, but apparently there are problems (it won't accept connections after a few times), is there any workaround? Here is the portion of the relevant code: while($client =…
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Missing switch.pm - Active Perl x64/windows

I have installed Active Perl (v5.14.2, 64-bit, for Windows) and my code containing use Switch; started to fail with the error Can't locate Switch.pm in @INC (@INC contains: C:/Perl64/site/lib C:/Perl64/lib .) at myfilename.pl line 3.. Copying…
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Padre under ActivePerl: not working?

I have ActivePerl version 5.12.2.1202 and PPM version 4.11 installed. I would like to use a debugger with a GUI where I can see the Perl program variables. After getting disappointed of Eclipse and EPIC, (since it seems they are terribly…
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How can I force a Perl script to use ActiveState's wperl?

I have a Perl script that requires two command line arguments that takes a while to run. I am using ActiveState Perl to run it. I can call it with wperl script.pl arg1 arg2 from a command prompt and it runs in the background fine. If I change the…
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Can a Perl script detect whether it's running under Activestate vs Strawberry Perl?

I have a Perl script I'm still trying to debug and in the process I've noticed that it behaves differently running under ActivePerl and Strawberry Perl. This has led me to wonder how a Perl script might detect under which of these flavours it is…
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Can I move a Perl installation from one computer to another computer?

I am trying to set up an application dependant on few Perl modules, but the server I am installing to, does not have Internet connection. I read about offline module installs via ppd files, however I would have to resolve all the dependencies one by…
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How can I obtain tools to build Perl modules on Windows?

I need to install a few modules required my Perl program on Windows. It looks like I need a 64-bit nmake to build those modules. I found nmake15 online, but it does not work on my system. How can I build those Perl modules on Windows?
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ActivePerl ppm command error

I installed On Windows 7 64-bit OS ActivePerl 64bit Version 5.16.3.1603 on D disk as D:/perl64 I controlled Windows path, it is OK. D:\perl64\site\bin; D:\perl64\bin; When I open Git Bash commander and enter ppm install DBI or ppm install…
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Perl on Windows: Problems with Encoding

I have a problem with my Perl scripts. In UNIX-like systems it prints out all Unicode characters like ä properly to the console. In the Windows commandline, the characters are broken to senseless glyphs. Is there a simple way to avoid this? I'm…
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UDP Server listening to broadcast

Given that: The server is on windows xp running ActiveState Perl The server is connected to an internal network and an external network A computer on the internal network is broadcasting in udp to 10.4.255.255 on port 9722 I need to: listen to the…
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Perl not running in Windows 10

I've just downloaded ActivePerl for Windows 10 on my 64 bit laptop, but when I go to the command prompt, perl -v fails unless the directory is C:\Perl64\bin in which case it tells me that I have Perl 5.20.2 Copyright Larry Ullman etc, but if I try…
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Static variables in perl module

I want to set a variable in a module from one calling module and want to retrieve that value inanother calling module. I have done something line this: package Test; our $data = undef; sub set_data { $data = shift @_; } sub get_data { …
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Inconsistent evaluation on the result list of assignment operator in Perl?

The evaluation on the result list looks to be inconsistent in scalar and list context. As below code snippet shows, the left side of assignment operation (=) is evaluated in list context, but the list in the right side is evaluated when in scalar…
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Migrate from activeperl to strawberry perl

I have a perl code that I run in windows, with activeperl 5.8 on apache2.2 and mysql as databse. I was just curious, could I migrate to strawberry perl without breaking anything in my system? How can this be done? Is there any good resource for…
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How do I install Email::Send::Gmail for ActivePerl?

I am trying to install that module for mail sending . And i am getting following errors : Warning: Prerequisite 'IO::Socket::SSL => ' for 'CWEST/Net-SMTP-SSL-1.01.tar.gz' failed when processing 'SULLR/IO-Socket-SSL-1.31.tar.gz' with 'make_test =>…
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