To use the Perl API, you must install the software on a host where
you plan run your applications.
The host will act 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 on installing Perl modules.
- Uncompress the Perl API package (downloaded in a previous step)
to a temporary directory.
- Install the Perl API as a standard Perl distribution as described
in the apidoc.txt file. On Windows you need nmake,
which is included in Visual Studio or downloadable from the Microsoft web
site (nmake 1.5–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 API package was uncompressed, execute 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
Once installed, the top Perl API module is BuildForge::API.
See the PerlDoc for each module for more information.