Not obvious how to start padre under Windows

[jeremiah]

It is painfully un-obvious how one starts the editor under Windows, at least for a linux hacker like myself. I have been double clicking my fingers raw.

The Download page describes how one gets padre, and I have followed those instructions, downloaded strawberry (nice work Adam) and installed padre - but I cannot start the damn thing!

[szabgab]

Start/Run? and type in padre

or create a shortcut and use the following as command:

C:\strawberry\perl\bin\wperl.exe C:\strawberry\perl\bin\padre

Then you can click on the shortcut to get padre started.

note we are using wperl here instead of perl in order to avoid the extra command shell window.

I am updating the site with this info.

[jeremiah]

When I do Start/Run? and type padre I get:

'padre' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

(This is on Windows Vista 64)

[jeremiah]

C:\strawberry\perl\bin\wperl.exe C:\strawberry\perl\bin\padre

On my Vista system, there is no C:\strawberry\perl\bin\wperl.exe, but there are other binaries - should they be used instead?

[szabgab]

C:\strawberry\perl\bin\ need to be in you PATH in order this to work and AFAIK Strawberry sets that.
I wonder if PATH includes it on your machine.
Can you run perl -V from the Start/Run? ?

What about opening a command prompt (Start/Run?/cmd and then trying it from there?)

Maybe if you type the full "C:\strawberry\perl\bin\wperl.exe C:\strawberry\perl\bin\padre" on the Start/Run? command line...

[jeremiah]

Ah - I made a mistake. I was using wxperl and not wperl, I have corrected the path name to the executable and that creates a shortcut, but it does not appear to be working properly. At least, no windows appear.

[jeremiah]

Hmmm, looks like I am having problems with Wx::Perl::Dialog, it is not fully installed.

[jeremiah]

Had to force install a couple of the modules, Wx::Perl::ProcessStream? and Padre itself. But it is working now!

[anonymous]

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