[CCP14 Home: (Frames | No Frames)]
CCP14 Mirrors: [UK] | [CA] | [US] | [AU]

(This Webpage Page in No Frames Mode)

Collaborative Computational Project Number 14

for Single Crystal and Powder Diffraction

CCP14

Compiling Perl

The CCP14 Homepage is at http://www.ccp14.ac.uk

[Back to CCP14 Web/Config Main Page]

[Why use Perl | Where to get perl | Extracting tar.Z files | Compiling and Installing Perl]


NB: The following may be non-optimal as still working out nuances on different systems to get a method that is psuedo bulletproof.

Why use Perl

The free Perl is a scripting language interpreter necessary for various applications including the world wide web.

The present versions of Perl are quite easy to compile though it does have a large number of questions during Configuring.

The stable version of perl used at the time of writing was 5.005_03 (18th November 1999). This was compiled on an SGI O2 running IRIX 6.5.6.


Where to get Perl

The Perl website is at http://www.perl.org. At the time of writing, the stable version of Perl was 5.005_03


Extracting the Distribution Files

To extract the distribution files: This creates a subdirectory where the files are ready to configure and compile.


Compiling and Installing Perl


[CCP14 Home: (Frames | No Frames)]
CCP14 Mirrors: [UK] | [CA] | [US] | [AU]

(This Webpage Page in No Frames Mode)

If you have any queries or comments, please feel free to contact the CCP14