Perl in Windows 8

Question

I am trying to get Strawberry perl running on my windows 8 machine. This is my first attempt ever to use perl and I am going through the readme file to try and get it up and running. At the moment i have got as far as typing

c:\>perl

and i get access denied message. Am i misunderstanding the readme or do i need to make some further adjustments to get it to work?

The instrustions for the readme are

1. run any perl script by launching

 c:\> perl c:\path\to\script.pl

i have also tried

c:\>perl c:\perls\ex1.pl

where perls is the folder on C: in which the script ex1 is located. Also get access denied message.

Answer 1

It could be either the fact that Perl isn't in your PATH, or permissions issue.

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If it's the PATH, to troubleshoot and fix:

• Find the directory where you installed Perl (say, "c:\program files\strawberry\perl\bin\" as an example)

• Run Perl as full path: `"c:\program files\strawberry\perl\bin\perl c:\perls\ex1.pl".

• If that works, you will simply need to add Perl's directory to PATH variable, so that running "perl" without a path will search for it in that directory. To do that, here are the references:

  • Window add Java to Path

  • https://superuser.com/questions/284342/what-are-path-and-other-environment-variables-and-how-can-i-set-or-use-them

  • http://www.itechtics.com/customize-windows-environment-variables/

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If it's permissions, here's a reference: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/how-do-i-open-a-file-if-i-get-an-access-denied-message