ActiveState Perl is required to run the build generation scripts. MinGW

or Cygwin Perl will not work. It must also be present in the PATH.

Binaries can be downloaded from

<ulink url="http://www.activestate.com"></> (Note: version 5.8 or later is required,

<ulink url="http://www.activestate.com"></>

(Note: version 5.8.3 or later is required,

the free Standard Distribution is sufficient).

</para></listitem>

</varlistentry>

<application>PL/Perl</application> you need a full

<productname>Perl</productname> installation, including the

<filename>libperl</filename> library and the header files.

The minimum required version is <productname>Perl</productname> 5.8.3.

Since <application>PL/Perl</application> will be a shared

library, the <indexterm><primary>libperl</primary></indexterm>

<filename>libperl</filename> library must be a shared library

<primary>perl</primary>

</indexterm>

<application>Perl</> 5.8 or later is needed to build from a Git checkout,

<application>Perl</> 5.8.3 or later is needed to build from a Git checkout,

or if you changed the input files for any of the build steps that

use Perl scripts. If building on Windows you will need

<application>Perl</> in any case.