Setting up a working environment for World Builder in Perl.

Windows

Download Active Perl (MSI installer for XP, zip file for Vista) and install.
MSI installer in XP should set Perl in the path, you'll have to do this
manually in Vista. The typical install is to C:\Perl, so the path to include
will be C:\Perl\bin.

I then create a directory named Code (C:\Code). I put my executable in there.

There are a couple ways to run this program at this point.

1. Open a command window, cd to C:\Code and type

perl world.pl

For command line help type

perl world.pl --help

Otherwise, go to the program, double click on it, and then select the Perl
executable as the program to run this file. If you're on XP and you installed
Active Perl, this association has probably been done for you. In Vista, it's
a manual process.

At this point, double clicking the program will run the program

Linux

In most Linux distributions, perl is installed as part of the base distribution. You
will also want to install 'perldoc' as well, as we use this program for help text.

Once the program is installed, cd to the working directory

chmod 744 world.pl  (to make the program executable)

./world.pl

if you want help, type 

./world.pl --help

Vista system path help:

http://banagale.com/changing-your-system-path-in-windows-vista.htm

Active Perl download (free download):

http://www.activestate.com/store/activeperl/download

David Myers. Sep 23, 2008.