Re: Updating Activestate Perl 516 to 518

[bcarroll]

Modules that contain XS code (compiled modules) are typically not binary compatible with other Active Perl versions.

You can use the following perl script to create a batchfile to install all of your ppm modules. Run the script with the old perl version and save the output to a file (ppm.bat), then install the new ActivePerl version and run the batchfile.

You will need to make sure any PPM repositories you manually configured in the old version are added to the new version.

use warnings;
use strict;

foreach( `ppm list` ){
    chomp $_;
    next unless( $_ =~ /site/ );
    $_ =~ /^\| (.+?) /;
    print "ppm install $1\n";
}

[zemplen]

This worked fine for me. I ran it with 516 active. Activated 518. When I ran the bat file it only ran one command and then stopped. Solution is to open a cmd window and paste the contents of the bat file into the cmd window and everything works fine.