Vladimir Zelinski wrote:
> Dear colleagues.
>
> Probably, question I would like to ask is not a new
> one, but my search on Internet didn't bring any
> meaningful result.
> I would like to have a portable version of PERL on my
> USB drive. I want to be able to run programs
> on a Windows machine from this USB drive. I realize
> that I need to modify the PATH environmental variable
> to include the USB drive in search path.
No, you don't need to modify PATH, you can always use the
full path to perl.exe when you run it. Config.pm is probably
going to be more of a problem.
> Normally, when Windows version of PERL installed some
> information is written into the registry. This seems
> to me the major problem for achieving this goal.
>
> I saw on Internet a number of programs that have their
> portable versions, including such big and complex
> program like the Microsoft Office. So, it's possible.
> Does anybody have information on portable PERL version
> for Windows?
There's a reloc_perl{.bat} script in the bin dir that might
be useful. You could relocate the Perl tree when you plug
in your USB drive - either to the hard drive or possibly
just map it on the USB drive to the drive it ended up on
on the new system.
I've never done it, so I'm guessing here.
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