ActivePerl User Guide

Welcome to ActivePerl

Thank you for using ActivePerl, ActiveState's quality-assured binary build of Perl, available for Linux, Solaris and Windows. As part of ActiveState's support for Perl, ActiveState provides the ActivePerl binary packages free to the community. ActivePerl includes:

• Perl, the binary core distribution
• The Perl Package Manager , for installing Perl extension modules
• Complete documentation

The Windows version of ActivePerl also includes:

• Perl for ISAPI, an IIS plug-in that makes perl CGI faster
• PerlScript, an ActiveX scripting engine, like JavaScript or VBScript with a Perl brain
• PerlEz, for embedding Perl the easy way

Refer to the Release Notes for information about this version of ActivePerl.

ActiveState Products

ActiveState is the leading provider of productivity tools for Perl programmers and technology solutions based on Perl.

Solutions

• ASPN Perl, a complete package of Perl productivity tools and programming information.
• PureMessage, the corporate mail filtering solution for comprehensive protection from spam and viruses.
• PerlEx, easy website acceleration for Perl scripts.
• PerlASPX, use Perl for dynamic content generation on ASP.NET Web servers.

Productivity Tools

• Perl Dev Kit, the essential toolkit for building Perl applications for UNIX and Windows platforms.
• Komodo, the cross-platform integrated development environment for open source languages.
• Visual Perl, the Perl plug-in for Visual Studio .NET.

Contact ActiveState

For installation-related support issues, contact support@ActiveState.com

For general information and support, refer to the ActivePerl mailing list at http://aspn.ActiveState.com/ASPN/Mail/Browse/Threaded/ActivePerl

To report a bug, or to view bugs fixed in this release, see the ActivePerl bug site, at http://bugs.ActiveState.com/ActivePerl