Installing and run perl on windows 7

Go to www.perl.org/get.html and download the Perl software suitable for your system requirements. My system is Windows 7 Home Premium (64 Bit), so i am selecting windows ActiveState Perl.

You will get http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/downloads in another tab. as shown below

I have downloaded Download ActivePerl 5.14.2 for Windows (64-bit, x64)

After saving run it by double clicking

Go on clicking NEXT

Both option should be selected it reduces the overhead of updating PATH manually.

Click on INSTALL then wait a while it will take some time to finish

for more information watch this you tube video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LM_Mta4hFo&feature=related

Start -->Control Panel --> System --> Advanced system Settings --> Environmental Variables --> System Variables --> PATH --> Edit --> Append C:\Perl64\bin --> OK --> OK (optional) RESTART the System to make path effective.

Open a notepad and type

$p = “I am Perl”;

Print $p;

Then save file as .pl and the type must be Any file”.”

Then open command prompt and goto the perl script location and type

perl .pl

I am Perl and this is ur output.