This section provides a tutorial example on how to install ActivePerl v5.8.8 on a Windows XP system.
If you are using a Windows system and want to run Perl scripts, you can install
the free binary package, ActivePerl, provided by ActiveState. Here is what I did
to install ActivePerl v5.8.8 on a Windows XP system.
1. Go to http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/, and click the download button.
2. Download the ActivePerl 5.8.8 build 820, Windows MSI.
3. Double click on the downloaded file name: ActivePerl-5.8.8.820-MSWin32-x86-274739.msi, and
follow the installation tool to install ActivePerl to your hard drive at C:\perl.
4. Open a command window, and type in "perl -v". If you see the following output,
your installation is ok.
>perl -v
This is perl, v5.8.8 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 50 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)
Copyright 1987-2006, Larry Wall
Binary build 820 [274739] provided by ActiveState
http://www.ActiveState.com
Built Jan 23 2007 15:57:46
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