# Windows (Active Perl) Installation Instructions

http://www.activestate.com/

Once you have installed Active Perl you need to configure an additional PPM repositor and then you can install Padre using the ppm packaging system. Let's see how to do it in the Command Shell:

    Start/Run/cmd ENTER
    ppm rep add wxperl http://www.wxperl.co.uk/repository

    ppm install Alien-wxWidgets
    ppm install Wx
    ppm install Padre

You might have to install Alien-wxWidgets-gcc. If this conflicts with Alien-wxWidgets - you can try use --force: `ppm install Alien-wxWidgets-gcc --force`

Once that's done you can start Padre by typing `perl c:\perl\site\bin\padre` or `wperl c:\perl\site\bin\padre`

Replace "c:\perl" with the path, where Active Perl is installed.

#### Older Active Perl details

The manual installation is still a bit rough but we are working on improving it.

> 1) (A) Most of the modules - can be taken from the main ActiveState Package Repository.

> (B) For Active Perl there are prebuilt PPM versions of Alien::wxWidgets and Wx (aka. wxPerl) and can be installed from http://wxperl.co.uk/.

> So add the wxperl repository to the PPM: http://www.wxperl.co.uk/repository (for detailed instructions see http://wxperl.co.uk/ppm.html ) (and even more info here http://docs.activestate.com/activeperl/5.10/faq/ActivePerl-faq2.html )

> Adding the repository to your PPM repository list: In PPM4 (ActivePerl 820+) this is most easily done via the GUI menu option: Edit -> Preferences.

> If you use PPM3 - or used to command line (==DOS , still usable for PPM4) - you can do: ``

ppm rep add wxperl http://www.wxperl.co.uk/repository

> ``

}}}

> 2) Install all the packages (except of course perl) listed as "requires" on http://svn.perlide.org/padre/trunk/Padre/Makefile.PL - by using ppm. Don't worry about the order of installation and report us any problem you encounter.

> You can do in by searching the "requires" packages listed in the above link - either by using the PPM4 GUI, or searching PPM command line (==DOS): ``

ppm search App::Ack

> `The result may look like this:`

C:\Documents and Settings\orenm>ppm search App::Ack Downloading ActiveState Package Repository packlist...not modified 1: ack

> A grep-like program specifically for large source trees Version: 1.86 Released: 2008-07-09 Author: Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com> Provide: App::Ack version 1.86 Require: File::Basename Require: File::Next version 0.4 or better Require: Getopt::Long Require: Term::ANSIColor Require: Test::Harness version 2.5 or better Require: Test::More Repo: ActiveState Package Repository CPAN: http://search.cpan.org/dist/ack-1.86/

A grep-like program specifically for large source trees }}}

C:\Documents and Settings\orenm>

> `So now you shall do:`

ppm install ack

> ``

}}}

> 3) then open the cpan client and install Padre:

      c:> perl -MCPAN -eshell
      cpan> install Padre

Oren Maurer reported that you might need to force it: ``

> cpan> force install Padre

``

at some point you might encounter an error like this:

     Running install for module 'Padre'
     Running make for S/SZ/SZABGAB/Padre-0.06.tar.gz
     CPAN: Digest::SHA loaded ok (v5.45)
     Fetching with LWP:
      http://ppm.activestate.com/CPAN/authors/id/S/SZ/SZABGAB/CHECKSUMS
     Alert: While trying to 'parse' YAML file
      'D:\ActiveState\Perl\cpan\FTPstats.yml'
     with 'YAML::XS' the following error was encountered:
      Usage: YAML::XS::LibYAML::Load(yaml_str) at
     D:\ActiveState\Perl\lib/YAML/XS.pm
      line 70.

The reported solution was this: ``

> [reach the cpan shell:] C:\>cpan cpan> o conf yaml_module cpan> o conf commit commit: wrote 'C:\Perl\lib/CPAN/Config.pm' cpan> q

`(See: http://groups.google.com/group/de.comp.lang.perl.misc/browse_thread/thread/3a347d02a1ebf464 and http://perl.org.il/pipermail/perl/2008-September/009779.html )`

Other things that to do and can help:

1. upgrading last version of Encode - using ppm ,

> Note: For upgrading all PPM packages, do this (Windows command line, a.k.a Dos)

        ppm upgrade --install

2. upgrade of Wx - also by using ppm ,
3. installing Alien-wxWidgets (the same way... ppm),
4. And now - do (again with ppm):

        ppm install  --force Alien-wxWidgets-dev

(See: http://meorero.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/padre-on-ms-windows-with-activeperl-5100-build-1004/)

For more info about "ppm - Perl Package Manager, version 4" - see the ActivePerl 5.10 Documentation: http://docs.activestate.com/activeperl/5.10/bin/ppm.html

## Still Not Working?

Following the instructions on this page did not lead to a successful installation?

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