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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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What is ActivePerl doing when it "relocates" files during installation?

Given some unix program which I've compiled, what might I need to do to relocate it to a different directory and have it continue running correctly. I'm thinking of Perl, but would be interested in other systems like Apache which also seem to fail…
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Inline::C build failure

I am using active perl 5.14.2. Here I am trying to use a windows C library in my perl code using Inline::C use strict; use Inline C => DATA => CCFLAGS => '-std:C99 -Tx86-coff -Zi -Ob1 -fp:precise -W1 -Gd -Ze -Go -D_USER_SPACE_' => …
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Debugging with EPIC, Indigo and Windows 7 64-bit

I'm trying to get the EPIC debugger working with the following setup: Eclipse Indigo ActivePerl 5.14.2 EPIC 0.6.44 Windows 7, 64-bit When I start the debugger, I get the following message: Use of uninitialized value in subroutine dereference at…
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Handling Perl IIS 7.5

I've got a project written in classic asp, and a particular form's submit is handled by a Perl script. I'm going to do an enhancement for this project. I installed the latest version of ActivePerl for Windows 32 bits. I looked at the production…
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How can I create an HTML button with an action and append it to the DOM using PerlScript?

I'm specifically talking about the IE embedded script language "PerlScript" from ActiveState. I currently have the following, but when button 3 is pressed, no action happens. perlscript baby! …
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How to share common things among par::packer generated exe files?

I've just tried to generate *.exe files from Perl scripts by using Par::Packer, the tool works fine as expected. The situation now is I would like to distribute my Perl based application as a group of utilities (exe files), for each of them there…
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How to install XML::Twig for Windows XP

I tried installing XML::Twig using ppm and also tried manually by adding twig.pm files in the perl/lib folder, also tried using Nmake but got an error "NMAKE : fatal error U1073: don't know how to make 'C:\Documents' Stop." How do I install it?
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DBD::mysql error in ActivePerl 5.28 on Windws10 64bits, Can't load mysql.dll

I'm having an issue with the DBD::mysql module. This question has been asked before on this forum but a solution was not posted so I thought I would repost it. Sorry if this is not appropriate for this forum. This is my first post. You can find…
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Call perl function from another perl script with different Active perl versions

We have two versions of Active perl 5.6 and 5.24. We have web services which has to be executed on Active perl '5.24' versions(to adopt TLS 1.2 version) and this needs to be invoked from Active perl '5.6' version. We are using windows operating…
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How did I get a number from a substitution on a non-numeric string?

I'm new in perl and have a little problem: part of perl code: print "${data_dir}\n"; #converting directory path to unix format (replacing all backslashes with slashes) $data_dir = ~s/\\/\//g; print…
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Using ActivePerl and Strawberry simultanously

I recently upgraded my version of client-side 64-bit ActivePerl from version 5.10.1.1007 to 5.22.2.2203, and am having tons of problems with it. I'd really rather jump to Strawberry, but I'll have to test it first on each of the critical Perl apps I…
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How can I get BerkeleyDB for ActivePerl 5.10?

I'm trying to find out where a BerkeleyDB PPM is for ActivePerl 5.10. Anyone have a clue where to find this, or how to build it? I had found a lead here. They claim BerkeleyDB 0.33 had built ok for Perl 5.10. They provide a link to the PPM, but not…
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How do I install Devel::Cover on ActivePerl 5.8.7?

cpan fails with this weird error as follows Error: Unable to locate installed Perl libraries or Perl source code. It is recommended that you install perl in a standard location before building extensions. Some precompiled versions of perl do not…
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How can I install Lib::XML on ActiveState Perl 5.20?

I am trying to install Lib::XML in my ActiveState Perl Windows machine. perl 5, version 20, subversion 2 (v5.20.2) I tried the following: C:\Users\VENKATESH>ppm install XML-LibXML ppm install failed: Can't find any package that provides…
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Why does my ActivePerl program report 'Sorry. Ran out of threads'?

Tom Christiansen's example code (à la perlthrtut) is a recursive, threaded implementation of finding and printing all prime numbers between 3 and 1000. Below is a mildly adapted version of the script #!/usr/bin/perl # adapted from prime-pthread,…
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