B211 Installation Instructions for ptkdb

Installation Instructions - Perl Debugger PTKDB for Win95/98/NT

Install ActivePerl - described here.

Start a MS-DOS prompt and type the command "ppm install Tk" (note uppercase "T" and lowercase "k"). This will use the perl package manager to install Tk, required by the debugger. This will also take a few minutes at least, while it downloads about 2Mb of files from a remote site. In between which it looks like the process has hung - to check if it is still going, look at your dial-up connection to make sure the bytes received keeps increasing.

Download the file Devel-ptkdb-1.107.tar.gz from the downloads directory .

Unzip them using WinZip or whatever compression software you have.

Move the file Devel\ptkdb.pm into the C:\PERL\LIB\DEVEL\ directory.

Test if everything is OK by starting a MS-DOS prompt, going to C:\PERL\EG and typing "perl -d:ptkdb example.pl". The debugger window should start up, with the example.pl (a one-line script) on the right panel. Click "Run" and the debugger should finish (ie. disappear) with the line "Hello from ActivePerl!" printed on the MS-DOS prompt.

That completes the installation.