Installing Active Perl and Configuration

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This is a guide on how to install Active Perl and configure it so it can work with MySQL databases.

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[edit] Installing Active Perl

[edit] Preparation

Download the Active Perl image from here. I suggest the MSI installer for Windows. Only use the 64 bit installation if your processor is 64 Bit(AMD 64).

[edit] Install

To install Active Perl all you have to do is run the MSI installer you downloaded in the step above.

[edit] Configuring

To configure Perl to connect to MySQL databases you need DBI and DBD-mysql installed. To install them, open the command prompt(start->run->cmd) and run these commands in order. 

ppm-shell
install DBI
install DBD-mysql
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