Perl on Windows
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Continuing the discussion from Bug Tracking Software Suggestions:
So I just installed Perl from Active Perl, and the first thing I have to do is ... update a metric shit ton of libraries. Why weren't the defaults just downloaded by PPM after install?
Secondary gripe: why is there not an "update all" in the PPM GUI? How is that not an option?
Maybe I'm the WTF for testing on Windows?
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Fuck ActivePerl. It sucks.
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Is there an alternate/better way for perl on windows? Admittedly I did less than 0 research.
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Probably not.
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Disclaimer: Never used it
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Filed Under That's Seriously the Sadface Emoji?
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Moar Perl Fun ... AFAICT, Apache and Perl only play nice when Perl is X86 ... Yay for abandoning half my addressable RAM!
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AFAICT, Apache and Perl only play nice when Perl is X86 ... Yay for abandoning half my addressable RAM!
Is Apache also X86? You've got to match the target processor architecture in all libraries that a process loads (unless you're waaaay more of a hacker than me).
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@rad131304 said:
AFAICT, Apache and Perl only play nice when Perl is X86 ... Yay for abandoning half my addressable RAM!
Is Apache also X86? You've got to match the target processor architecture in all libraries that a process loads (unless you're waaaay more of a hacker than me).
No idea; probably. I mean, we're talking *nix apps on Windows so I'd doubt they'd bother with x64.
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I'd doubt they'd bother with x64.
Oh, Apache 64-bit for Windows exists: http://www.wampserver.com/en/
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@rad131304 said:
I'd doubt they'd bother with x64.
Oh, Apache 64-bit for Windows exists: http://www.wampserver.com/en/
I just tried to attach it to my bitnami stack ... hence why I have no clue if I'm running x86 or x64.
Edit: mostly from lack of caring
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WTF: using Windows for any server workflow
WTF: using Perl for anything
WTF²: using ActivePerl
WTF³: using Perl on WindowsCongratulations, a cubic WTF here!
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Jeebus! Why does mod_perl's makefile mangle directories so badly?
C:\ProgramData\wampstack\5.4.26-2\apache2\bin
becomes
C:\Progra~3\wampst~1\5468D1~1.26-\apache2\bin
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Jeebus! Why does mod_perl's makefile mangle directories so badly?
Shortnames! How do I dislike them? Let me count the ways…
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Is there an alternate/better way for perl on windows?
If you use Cygwin, it (optionally) includes Perl, and any modules you install through Cygwin will be updated whenever you update the rest of Cygwin. Anything you download from CPAN, of course, you're on your own to keep it up to date.
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@rad131304 said:
Jeebus! Why does mod_perl's makefile mangle directories so badly?
Shortnames! How do I dislike them? Let me count the ways…
Well, I just need to learn to read error messages. It wasn't immediately clear from the error, but the folder was found fine I just was pointing to bin when I needed to point to the base directory ....
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@rad131304 said:
Is there an alternate/better way for perl on windows?
If you use Cygwin, it (optionally) includes Perl, and any modules you install through Cygwin will be updated whenever you update the rest of Cygwin. Anything you download from CPAN, of course, you're on your own to keep it up to date.
I don't actually want perl, but mod_perl is required for bugzilla
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I don't actually want perl, but mod_perl is required for bugzilla
Oh, sorry, I can't help you with that. I used to use mod_perl on Apache, back in the day, but that was on Linux, so Perl was installed by default, and it Just Worked™.
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@rad131304 said:
I don't actually want perl, but mod_perl is required for bugzilla
Oh, sorry, I can't help you with that. I used to use mod_perl on Apache, back in the day, but that was on Linux, so Perl was installed by default, and it Just Worked™.
I can't find a precompiled x86 mod_perl for any version of activeperl I can get my hands on right now. Perl seems to work, not that I care if it does or not.
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If you use Cygwin, it (optionally) includes Perl
I use Cygwin to get most of the Linux commands I like while still having access to the standard Windows programs that everyone else uses. I do a bit of stuff manipulating
/dev/clipboard
for example
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I do a bit of stuff manipulating /dev/clipboard for example
What? Oh, manipulating it. I misread that as mounting it, which would have been deeply weird…
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I ~= 34 posts to a new topic: Discomoji are inadequate to express the feeling of having to use Perl on Windows
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If you use Cygwin
Cygwin integration with the rest of Windows™ is, unfortunately, catastrophic.
However rumour has it¹ that MSys2 comes with better integration (similar to MSys1) and usable package manager and actually useful selection of packages.
¹ I have looked it because it is what new Git for Windows will be² based on, but I didn't try it yet.
² Git is already at version 2.4.2, but the latest version for Windows to be had from the official site is still 1.9.5 due to the rewrite of the packaging. Msys2 seems to have the newer version already though.
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