
Then if you double-click a '.command' script or type its name at the command line then Perl will open automatically.

It will then associate the '.command' file extension with your chosen 'perl.exe'. If required, mand will do some configuration to make sure that command line switches, such as '-f settings_file', are recognised by Perl (see this post). See the documentation for more information on locating the perl.exe you need to use the first time you open mand: WARNING: if you have ActivePerl or the not 'portable' version of Strawberry Perl installed then you should use this perl.exe to open the alphaMELTS installation script (and not the perl.exe inside MATLAB or the one in the portable version of Strawberry Perl).

alphaMELTS should work fine with any version of Perl from 5.6 onwards. 5.14, over an older one, such as 5.12 (e.g.
#Activeperl system install#
As a user with admin privileges double-click the installer and follow any instructions.ĭo not try to install a newer version of Perl, e.g. Download the MSI installer for ActivePerl or for Strawberry Perl.Double-click the archive to extract the files and, optionally, move the folder to a more convenient location on your hard disk.

