B336 Installtion Instructions for ptkdb

B336 Advanced Internet Computing

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". 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 B336 download site (temporarily unavailable).

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.