To use the Perl client API, you must set it up on a host
where you plan to run your applications.
About this task
The host acts as a client to the Management Console
host.
Procedure
- 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.