Downloading and Installing

Download it from ​http://www.perlide.org/download/ unzip it and run

...\perl\bin\portablepadre.bat

You should have a working Padre with a fully installed perl.

Better if you don't have any other perl in your PATH.

Building it

How to include Padre into Portable Strawberry and how to release it

• Download Portable Strawberry ​http://strawberryperl.com/
• ( ​http://strawberryperl.com/download/strawberry-perl-5.10.0.3-portable-beta-1.zip )
• unzip it to c:\portable
• Theoretically we should not need this but both portable is a bit buggy and some
  • modules just call out to system("perl") that requires perl to be in PATH. So
  • set the PATH to include both c:\portable\c\bin and c:\portable\perl\bin

• Install Padre using

  cpan> install Padre
  

• Install Plugins
• .padre is currently in C:\ shall we set the PADRE_HOME to a directory in the portable distribution? (if so we can configure the plug-ins and ship them but we have to make sure the configuration files don't include personal history..

• remove the cpan_sqlite_log.... files from c:\portable\cpan
• remove C:\portable\cpan\build and C:\portable\cpan\sources
• ( the whole portable directory is now 177 Mb )

portablepadre.bat contains the following magic:

%~dp0perl.exe %~dp0padre

• create a zip file and drag all the content of c:\portable\ in it
  • (TODO isn't there a command line tool in portable to create the zip file ?)
• The resulting zip file for Padre 0.19 on Portable Strawberry beta 1 was 52 Mb