sitefaqlet SiteDocClan <h3><a name="binary">Installable Distributions</a></h3> <dl> <dt>[http://www.activestate.com|ActivePerl]</dt> <dd>Perl for Linux, Solaris and Windows</dd> <dt>[http://StrawberryPerl.com/|Strawberry Perl]</dt> <dd>A 100% Open Source CPAN-capable Perl for Windows. Works exactly the same as Perl everywhere else.</dd> <dt>[http://www.indigostar.com/indigoperl.htm|IndigoPerl]</dt> <dd>Perl for Windows, comes with an Apache web server included</dd> <dt>[http://www.macperl.com|MacPerl]</dt> <dd>Perl for MacOS Classic (MacOS-X is BSD based and should come with Perl installed - otherwise use the BSD version)</dd> <dt>[http://www.cpan.org/ports/index.html|Perl ports on CPAN]</dt> <dd>Perl ports for a wide range of operating systems</dd> <dt>[http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/perl/win32-bin/|Apache for Win32]</dt> <dd>Apache, Perl, mod_ssl/OpenSSL and more goodies all compiled for Windows.</dd> </dl> <hr> <h3><a name="source">Source Code</a></h3> <dl> <dt>[http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.9/INSTALL|Install]</dt> <dd>The build instructions for the current version of Perl.</dd> </dl> <hr> <h3><a name="modules">Modules</a></h3> <dl> <dt>[http://www.cpan.org|CPAN]</dt> <dd>The <b>C</b>omprehensive <b>P</b>erl <b>A</b>rchive <b>N</b>etwork contains basically anything related to Perl but is mainly used as a repository for Perl modules.</dd> <dt>[http://ppm4.activestate.com/|Activestate package repositories]</dt> <dd>CPAN modules packaged by ActiveState. ActiveState's package manager (PPM) is an alternative to <tt>cpan</tt>. Similar to Linux's <tt>rpm</tt>, it can be used to distribute pre-compiled binaries of XS modules.</dd> <dt>[http://www.roth.net/perl/packages/|Roth Consulting Perl package repository]</dt> <dd>CPAN modules in PPM format packaged by Roth Consulting.</dd> </dl> <hr> <p> Also see <b>[id://520395]</b> for user-submitted tutorials on this subject. </p>