To use the Perl client API, you must set it up on a host
where you plan to run your applications.
The host acts as a client to the Management Console
host.
- Install a Perl interpreter on the client host, such as
ActiveState's ActivePerl version 5.8.4 or later.
The following
Perl prerequisite modules are required (ActivePerl version 5.8.8 includes
them):
Exporter
LWP::UserAgent
HTTP::Request
See the Perl documentation for information about installing Perl
modules.
- Uncompress the downloaded Perl client API package to a
temporary directory.
- Install the Perl client API as a standard Perl distribution
as described in the
apidoc.txt
file.On
Windows you need nmake 1.5
, which is included in
Visual Studio or downloadable from the Microsoft web site. It must
be installed where it can be found by the PATH environment variable,
such as C:\Windows
. In the temporary directory where
the Perl Client package was uncompressed, run these commands:
perl Makefile.PL
nmake
nmake install
On UNIX or Linux systems (or in a Cygwin environment on
Windows):
perl Makefile.PL
make
make install
After being installed, the top Perl client module is
BuildForge::Services::DBO
.
See the PerlDoc for each module for more information.