perl on as/400

[aperfectcircle]

Has anyone successfully installed perl on the as/400? When I try to run a script I get an error that says "perl requires descriptor-based stdio."

Any ideas?

 

[SteveR321]

Have you found a solution to this 'descriptor-based stdio' problem? The same thing is happening to me. Thanks.

Steve

 

[SteveR321]

Well I've got my own answer, I don't know if you've figured this out yet but I might as well post the solution for anyone else running into this.

You have to run the Perl program from Qshell! You can start an interactive session in Qshell with the QSH command, or run the program with this type of command:

QSH CMD('/QSYS.LIB/PERLDIST.LIB/PERL.PGM /tmp/hello.pl')

Qshell will take care of setting up the descriptors and environment variables for you. So a command run by Qshell can assume that descriptors 0, 1, and 2 are available for stdin, stdout, and stderr.

Steve

 

[iSeriesCodePoet]

Where can PERL for the AS/400 be found? On the perl website? On IBM's?
Mike Wills
RPG Programmer

"I am bad at math because God forgot to include math.h into my programming!"

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[SteveR321]

Mike,

It is not supported by IBM but here is the site:

http://www.iseries.ibm.com/tstudio/workshop/tiptools/perl.htm

Enjoy!

Steve

 

[iSeriesCodePoet]

Thanks SteveR321
Mike Wills
RPG Programmer

"I am bad at math because God forgot to include math.h into my programming!"

Please let us (Tek-Tips members) know if the solutions I provide are helpful to you. Not only do my posts help you but they may help others.