Perl on windows installation - Perhaps some work to be done here.

[MartinMcGrath]

Hi,

The Windows installation page (https://learn.perl.org/installing/windows.html) suggests Padre, the Padre page links to an DWIM perl which hasn't been updated in years:

No new version of DWIM Perl has been released for quite some time. You are probably better off using Perlbrew to install it on Linux or Strawberry Perl for Windows.

http://dwimperl.szabgab.com/

With this in mind perhaps it'd be better to simply suggest Strawberry Perl, and then cpanm Padre to install the IDE.

[ranguard]

I agree with this - also not sure Padre has much advantage over other editors + Perl plugins - either send patch or when I next review these tickets I'll try get sorted

[LorenzoTa]

For what I can say I'd simply suggest Strawberry Perl to all windows users. I work most of the times on windows and I switched from ActivePerl to Strawberry Perl ~6 years ago and I found no problems at all. Strawberry makes a big effort releasing distros with many preinstalled modules and also has the portable serie. Since 5.20 it also has the PDL edition. It has 64 versions and 32 bit ones with or without USE_64_BIT_INT ...what do you want more? ;=)

About Padre I'm not in the position to judge: i tried once many years ago within dwimperl. Now dwim is no more supported. As suggested by MartinMcGrath above I tried cpan Padre but I got first an error testing Client::Debug then I issued notest install Client::Debug with no errors.

A new instance of cpan Padre failed again. I had success with notest install Padre but the main program failed to start:

Malformed UTF-8 character: \xe0\x20\x6c (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x20, immediately after start byte 0xe0; need 3 bytes, got 1) at D:/ulisseDUE/perl5.26.64bit/perl/site/lib/Padre/Wx/Main.pm line 5564. Malformed UTF-8 character (fatal) at D:/ulisseDUE/perl5.26.64bit/perl/site/lib/Padre/Wx/Main.pm line 5564. Compilation failed in require at D:/ulisseDUE/perl5.26.64bit/perl/site/lib/Padre/Wx/App.pm line 58. Perl exited with active threads: 1 running and unjoined 0 finished and unjoined 0 running and detached

My tests on: This is perl 5, version 26, subversion 0 (v5.26.0) built for MSWin32-x64-multi-thread Strawberry portable edition.

Not the best way to start.

In conclusion I'd say: go with Strawberry Perl without esitation, even Larry suggest it, and use your preferred text editor or IDE.

[davebaird]

You can get Padre up and running quite easily on Strawberry Perl 5.28 (in 5.30 Wx is broken) following these instructions - https://paulshipley.id.au/blog/coding-tips/ide-for-strawberry-perl-for-windows/

[rspier]

Anyone want to send a PR to improve the situation?

[LeonardBinns]

THANK YOU to davebaird for pointing me to Paul Shipley's instructions (https://paulshipley.id.au/blog/coding-tips/ide-for-strawberry-perl-for-windows/)

Took me two days to finally install Padre on top of the latest version of Strawberry Perl... figured out all my problems with the exception of patching Locker.pm, which Paul's webpage helped me navigate :-)

Also, for any of you trying to accomplish the same... I manually --force installed some of the required modules that Padre needed.