You may want to install ActivePerl instead, when installing it changes the windows registry etc.
-- looking for cloud developers: http://www.nsbeta.info/jobs Saturday, March 8, 2014 3:29 PM -05:00 from Alek Trishan <alek.tris...@gmail.com>: >Hi, > >I have installed perl via cygwin on my Windows 7 computer and have a >perl script that I would like to execute simply by double-clicking on >its name from a Windows filemanager window. (That is, I do not want to >use the command line at all.) > >Eg, myscript.pl > >I tried using this > >#!C:\cigwin64\bin\perl.exe > >as the first line in the script but when I double-click the script, >Windows opens it in a text editor. (I suppose I have .pl associated with >that editor!) > >How do I fix this? > >Thanks. > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org >For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org >http://learn.perl.org/ > >
