
If you're building perl from a git repository, you should also consult the documentation in pod/perlgit.pod for information on that special circumstance. These options, and many more, are explained in further detail below. Some other features available in C99 will be probed for and used when found. C89 with a minimal subset of C99 features is required.
#Activeperl 5.16.2 download install
To explicitly name the perl binary, use the command "make install PERLNAME=myperl".īuilding perl from source requires an ANSI compliant C compiler. You can also specify any prefix location by adding "-Dprefix='/some/dir'" to Configure's args. The above commands will install Perl to /usr/local (or some other platform-specific directory - see the appropriate file in hints/.) If that's not okay with you, you can run Configure interactively, by just typing "sh Configure" (without the -de args). The basic steps to build and install perl 5 on a Unix system with all the defaults are to run, from a freshly unpacked source tree: sh Configure -deĮach of these is explained in further detail below. Fixes and new features are first carefully tested in development releases and only if they prove themselves to be worthy will they be migrated to the maintenance releases. Development releases should not be used in production environments. Perl uses a version scheme where even-numbered subreleases (like 5.8.x and 5.10.x) are stable maintenance releases and odd-numbered subreleases (like 5.7.x and 5.9.x) are unstable development releases. If you didn't get your Perl source from CPAN, check the latest version at. SYNOPSISįirst, make sure you have an up-to-date version of Perl. INSTALL - Build and Installation guide for perl 5.

Altering Configure variables for C compiler switches etc.
