adding to $PATH environment variable

[White_Eskimo]

Alright so this has been driving me crazy and i havent been able to find an appropriate solution even after my searches. I am very new to Linux, and have just started using Cygwin. I recently have installed Perl2Exe, a program which converts a perl script into an executable. Anyways, i installed it properly (i think/hope), so that in my home directory there is a folder perl2exe which contains a bunch of files and folders and the executable perl2exe.exe. After I was unable to get the program working, I decided to email their tech support, who explained to me that i needed to "add the path to perl2exe.exe to your PATH enviroment
variable." Wells turns out thats easier said than done for a Cygwin newbie. I have been screwing around for a while, but i just cant seem to add the path to perl2exe.exe to $PATH. Can anyone walk me through this or better yet just give me a piece of code needed to make this work?

set PATH = ($HOME/perl2exe/perl2exe.exe $PATH)

This obviously doesnt or hasnt worked, so what am i doing wrong? Any help is much appriciated

[skiddieleet]

try either

export PATH=$HOME/perl2exe/:$PATH

or

set PATH=$HOME/perl2exe/:$PATH
export PATH

You want the directory the executables are in in the path, not the executable itself.
also, look for a file like .bash_profile, or .bashrc or /etc/profile to set that as part of your path automatically when you login.

[White_Eskimo]

I get it thanks a lot for explainning. Alright now unforunetly i ran into another problem... the error is with perl2exe and is as follows:

ERROR: Unsupported perl version 5.008007

I guess this doesnt have anything to do with *.nix security, but thought i might just throw it out there. I guess i better just find someone who has an application that can turn PERL source code into an executable and pm them for a favor as this code isnt anything thats really special. Thanks again!

[skiddieleet]

I was looking for a perl2exe thing on my computer the other night and found perlcc which works like gcc for perl
perlcc -o executable perlscript.pl
You're doing this on cygwin right? I don't think you can make an executable on linux and have it run on windows. might work in cygwin though. Good luck.

[White_Eskimo]

hmm interesting... I think what i am going though is get a copy of macperl for my mac os 9 machine and just use that and forget about create an .exe for my windows machine too bad i am having such a pain in the ass trying to figure this out. I guess i could just purchase the activeperl IDE which is able to turn scripts into executables, but i really want to work in cygwin and learn more about linux. Thanks for the help.

[rcgreen]

V7.02 Oct 18 2003
Fixes some errors in handling of unicode
Fixed: use Switch causes a crash
Fixed: use Net::LDAP causes a crash - added support for seek on the DATA filehandle
Fixed: Building Windows code on Unix says "ERROR: Unsupported perl version 5.008"
Fixed: Reading DATA causes a crash
Fixed: Reading END causes a crash
Fixed: DBD::mysqlPP treats literl '?' as placeholder
DBD::mysqlPP version upgraded to 0.04 from 0.03
Fixed: suid application crashes

http://www.indigostar.com/pxman.htm

The most obvious question is: Are you using the latest version?
It either has a bug, or there is something in your script that is
not supported. Try a simpler script as a test.

[White_Eskimo]

Fixed: Building Windows code on Unix says "ERROR: Unsupported perl version 5.008"

I have been getting that error which is wierd because i am using the latest version of their software. Anyways, because i am using Cygwin, i decided to abandon the idea of installing and getting perl2exe to work on Linux and rather just focus on getting it to work for windows. I have installed it, but when i run it, it seems to run fine until the time comes to copying the perl file and create an executable. The error looks something like this:

Converting 'perlfile.pl' to perlfile.exe 
Can't open perlfile.pl

I know this is the *.nix forum so like i said earlier, but i just wanted to let you all know what my current situation is. 'perlfile.pl' is located within the same folder as perl2exe.exe and when i try to run perl2exe with all the other sample files included in the perl2exe folder, i get the same error informing me that perl2exe is unable to open my perl file. Anyways, thanks again, guess i will just contact the customer support line tomarrow!

EDIT--
How annoying, i got perl2exe to work once under Cygwin and i was able to create an executable, except it didnt like the use of Data:umper which i had forgotten to remove prior to creating the executable. Anyways, it only has worked once for no special reason at all. I dont get it at all, i swear i didnt change anything