Installing Perl on Windows (32 and 64 bit) (original) (raw)

A good setup for Perl on Windows (32 and 64 bit):

• Window tools
• Make sure you do not have any version of Perl already installed. (see video below for details), If you do uninstall it through the Window control panel "add/remove programs", if you still have a C:\Strawberry folder rename or delete it
• Download and install Strawberry Perl. You also get many other useful CPAN modules as well).
• Log out and back in (or reboot)
• Go to your start menu, then click the "Perl command" link
• To confirm the installation worked type:

perl -v  

• Install App-cpanminus by typing in:

cpan App::cpanminus  

Installing Strawberry Perl (without Padre) video

Explanation of this setup

• Strawberry Perl (a Perl packaged for Windows) is recommended as you get many useful modules (especially those that are tricky to install) along with it.
• To interact with the command line and run Perl commands, you need to run 'cmd'. There are better alternatives available as well.
• App-cpanminus provides the cpanm tool, which makes installing Perl modules very simple to do.