Choosing an Installation Directory
February 14, 2000
Answering "yes" to the "Installation Notes" screen will advance
you to the "Choose Destination Location" Screen.
This screen allows you to select a root directory for the
installation of Perl. The choice is entirely yours, but the
default path is to be recommended from the point of view of
installing subsequent versions of ActivePerl over the top of
old versions.
One thing to note is that if you wish to regularly move Perl
scripts between
UNIX and Windows servers, it might be
a good idea to create a "c:\usr\bin" directory and copy the contents
of the c:\Perl\bin" directory into it. That way, you can use
the same Perl header line in all your Perl scripts.
#!/usr/bin/perl
Selecting Components
Once you have specified the installation path, you will be
asked to choose which ActivePerl components you would like
installed.
Most of these options have been explained above.
However, we have not yet talked about
PerlScript.
The PerlScript component
gives you the ability to write web pages that contain embedded
Perl code that the web server will be able to execute.
In other words, you will be able to write ASP pages in PERL.
Add the Perl bin directory to your path
Introduction to Perl on Windows - Table of Contents
Perl Options Screen
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