Question

New to using sublime text 2 and I’m wondering how to get it to point to the activeperl.exe (on win7).

I’m testing out the compiler to make sure it works with something simple like:

$x = 1;
$print "$x";

But it gives me guff about how $x isn’t a recognized syntax. I did point ST2 to my python executable, but I forgot which file in the labyrinth I was supposed to edit the path to.

Answer 1

This worked for me, taken from: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=935014

1. Click “Preferences -> Browse Packages”
2. Navigate to the “Perl” subfolder
3. Create a file called “Perl.sublime-build” with the following content:

    {
      "cmd": ["perl", "-w", "$file"],
      "file_regex": ".* at (.*) line ([0-9]*)",
      "selector": "source.perl"
    }

4. Manually set the build system by clicking “Tools -> Build System -> Perl”
5. You can now run your Perl script by mashing Ctrl+B

I am running this version of ActiveState Perl:

C:\>perl --version
Binary build 1402 [295342] provided by ActiveState http://www.ActiveState.com
Built Oct  7 2011 15:49:44