Subject: Perl Win32 binary installation
From: Boris Lantrewitz <[email-masked]>
Date: 2 Jun 1998 18:45:45 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.misc

On hand I have a binary Installation of Perl for Win32 built on Gu-
rusamy Sarathy's most recent bindistribution. It is compiled with 
Innosetup 1.08h by Jordan Russell: <http://www.connect.net/jordanr/> 
and is _simple_ to handle. 
-- initial graphic setup
-- easy deinstallation
-- no need to care about documentation of Win32-Modules without POD
-- easy access to documentation for (double-click on "*.pm" / "*.pod")
-- icons for Modules, Scripts, POD-Files

Here is the "installation.txt" it comes with:

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     Notes concerning the binary installion
       of the Perl-Win32 Core Distribution

The Installation can be cleanly uninstalled (except for the newly
generated subdirectories and hence the Perl directory itself). You can
do this via Startmenu or via Control 
panel (Add/Remove Software).
  
If You have been installing the distribution as Administrator, the icons
will be created in the All Users profile. You will only be able to
deinstall this Perl distribution cleanly as Administrator in this case. 
  
If You have been installing the distribution as a normal user, the icons
will be created in Your own profile only. 

The Perl shell item in Your Startmenu is only a command interpreter with
the path proPerly set for this Perl distribution.

The Installation is based on the most recent binary Perl distribution of
Gurusamy Sarathy, which may be found under the author's name or GSAR on
any CPAN-Site and contains only marginal add-ons (libwin32 was upgraded
to version 0.10 instead of 0.08, AdminMisc is fresh from the Author,
Dave Roth, see beyond). 
	
The content of Artistic.txt and Readme.txt applies to this Installation
and to the files it is based on as well. 
The FixEnvironment.pl-script should set the Environment Variables for
this Perl to be the one which is in Your path. (It can be found in the
bin subdirectory).

Further important notes:
  
All the modules have been written by the Perl community and not by me.
For bugs in the modules please contact the maintainer. (The name is
usually included in the documentation or in the module (foo.pm).
If You need more documentation than is found in the html-subdirectory or
the lib\Pod-tree of the installation, locate the module (foo.pm) and
double-click on it. This should start a tkpod-Window showing the POD
(Plain Old) Documentation contained in the module itself.
  
Double-clicking on a <foo.pod> in the lib\Pod subdirectory should do the
same.
(The lib\Pod directory contains all the documentation of the basis
modules).
If tkpod fails for any reason, try Perldoc <modulename>. This should
nearly always work.

Documentation for the Win32-Extensions can be accessed by
Netscape(3.01+) or IE(3.+).
Switch on support for JAVA SCRIPT and open the file
html\lib\site\win32\main.html in the 
Perl installation tree. 
You will find quite a complete overview of the
Win32::<whatsoever>-Modules and an outdated FAQ, which might anyway be
useful. Parts of the documentation are specific to the 
ActiveWare Build of Perl for Win32, which was the first and still is the
"official" build of Perl for Win32. ActiveWare's versioning is done in
build numbers (306) instead of standard Perl version Numbers. ActiveWare
Perl is developed by ActiveWare Internet Corp., but copyrighted by
Microsoft. 

Nearly all of the HTML-documentation stuff for Win32 is from 
                                         Philippe Le
Berre                <[email-masked]> 
and is left in almost it's original state. 
The Win32::AdminMisc documentation is fresh from the author's 
                    (Dave Roth,<[email-masked]>) site. 

The FAQ has been created (and is, hopefully, maintained) by 
          Evangelo Prodromou <[email-masked]>.

Any Company Logos are copyrighted by their respective owners. Netscape,
Microsoft, ActiveWare... are trademarks of their respective owners.

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