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Go to ActiveState.com to download 32 bit community edition of Perl for Windows

MUST USE 32 BIT VERSION!!!!

See below for notes on problems with 64 bit version.

Installed ActivePerl-5.22.1.2201-MSWin32-x86-64int-299574.msi

Use all default options

Some additional libraries (modules) are needed.

After Perl installed, run Perl Package Manager (PPM) in a DOS command shell, run “ppm”

select View All Packages

Highlight Win32-SerialPort version 0.22 (to use serial port features in serialPortLib.pm)

Go to Action menu, pull down to select it

Highlight IO-Tee (to use the script logging features in commonLib.pm)

Go to Action menu, pull down to select it

Highlight Email-MIME (to allow script to send emails)

Go to Action menu, pull down to select it

Highlight Email-Sender (to allow script to send emails)

Go to Action menu, pull down to select it

Highlight Authen-SASL (to allow script to send emails)

Go to Action menu, pull down to select it

Go to File and select Run Marked Actions to install the 5 packages

Exit PPM

Created emirs.egse@gmail.com account with password "Emirs2468" to use to send emails from Perl scripts (using our emailLib.pm) Note the gmail security settings that have to be changed, as shown below:

!{width:1000px}appPermissions.png!

*Problems with 64 bit Perl:*

DO NOT INSTALL 64 bit version of Active Perl such as:

ActivePerl-5.22.3.2204-MSWin32-x64-401627.exe

When you run PPM, Win32-SerialPort is no longer an option.

I did go to http://search.cpan.org/~bbirth/Win32-SerialPort-0.22/lib/Win32/SerialPort.pm

On right side of page, download Win32-SerialPort-0.22.tar.gz

Go to http://www.7-zip.org/ and download 7-Zip to gunzip and untar files

Copy Win32-SerialPort-0.22\lib\Win32 to C:\Perl64\site\lib

Copy Win32-SerialPort-0.22\lib\Win32API to C:\Perl64\site\lib

But this didn’t work, neither did trying to use the Makefile and make_install, which appeared to install OK,

but when running comPortTest.pl, it didn’t work (but didn’t show any errors either …)

Bottom line: No reason not to use 32 bit version of Perl, so keep using it.