• WELCOME
• HOMEPAGE
• FEATURES
• NOTES
• GET INVOLVED
• HISTORY

Welcome

This is my Perl distribution for MS Windows. Though I'm not a Perl guru developer, Perl is my favorite scripting language. It's not easy to be a Perl developer with Windows these days. All perl distributions I know are limiting by features and/or license and I decided to create my own. With this version you could use CPAN or CPAN+ to install modules when needed. Please feel free to send suggestions and bug reports to demosten@gmail.com

Homepage

Official homepage: http://dnperl.sf.net/
Downloads at project home page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dnperl/

Features

Some of the features include:

• Comes with a free MinGW C/C++ compiler used to build the distribution and some free Unix tools. This way you can download and compile CPAN modules freely
• This is a 32 bit build. Current 64 bit builds are not stable enough. I hope this will be resolved soon and we will have x64 build too.
• Includes formatted help system with table of content
• Includes some preinstalled modules to ease working with CPAN and EPIC.
• Open source of all the tools used to create the distribution (license is same as Perl's)
• Optional instalation with EPIC - free Eclipse based Perl IDE with debugger

Notes

• You need to start a sitereindex.bat script (available in start menu or directly from <install_location>\perl32\html), after you manually install new modules in order to add documentation of newly installed modules to documentations's table of content. If you start CPAN or CPAN+ from shortcuts (or from perl's bin\dnperl_cpan*.bat) this is done automatically.
• If you are using EPIC version you need to have 32 bit JRE installed as eclipse with EPIC requires it.

Get involved

I need all the help you can give! I need your good ideas. I need you feedback and opinion. I need you critics. I need your fixes to my code. I need someone to create some art, so we can have a logo, distinct icon and better looking help.

History

version 5.12.2 rev 1 from (19.January.2011):

• Working with perl v5.12.2 now.
• Fixed problem with documentation linking again
• Added CPAN and CPAN+ update documentation hints
• Fixed problems perl relocation program
• Now installer is signed so you know which version comes from me and that it is not altered.
• Removed Perl Scripting Engine - it looks like noone is using it. If you need it, please contact me.

version 5.10.0 rev 2 from (13.September.2008):

• Fixed problem with documentation linking and generation. How documentation is generated at the end of the installation. This also led to about 2.5Mb smaller installation
• Added dnperl_setenv.bat which setup the paths for for the distribution
• Now CPAN and CPAN+ shortcuts call dnperl_setenv.bat first, in order to ensure proper setup of the environment. There is a new icon for CPAN too.