Hi Luigi, As best I can tell, recent versions of ActivePerl (AP) are essentially unusable garbage. You can probably run basic scripts with it, but I found recent AP to be very limited in capability and also unextendable - which, in the context of what one expects from perl, means that it is rubbish.
I know that wasn't always the case, and if you have a build of AP that supports your WSH needs, then I would recommend sticking with it. I don't think Strawberry Perl ever has or ever will provide that support. Cheers, Rob On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 9:30 PM Luigi Iotti <lu...@iotti.biz> wrote: > Hi Olivier, > > > > Yes, ActivePerl still has it, and indeed I use it today. To be precise, > 5.26 still has it, while I remember I tried a 5.28 build, and it did lack. > > I need it primary for Vandyke’ SecureCrt scripting, which makes use of the > same ActiveX scripting engines WSH uses. So, they tell that if cscript > //E:PerlScript works, then it should work with SecureCRT. And indeed I > always found this was the case. > > > > Just to know, somebody out there on the net instructed how to “steal” the > feature (a dll, which has to be registered with regsrv32) from AP and use > it with Strawberry, but I hoped there was some native support. AP can be > freely downloaded but I don’t know if thir license permits something like > this (and I bet it is no) and if this is a reliable solution. > > > > Thank you, regards > > Luigi > > > > *Da:* Olivier Mengué <olivier.men...@gmail.com> > *Inviato:* venerdì 12 giugno 2020 16:24 > *A:* Luigi Iotti <lu...@iotti.biz> > *Cc:* Win32 Perl mailing list <win32-vanilla@perl.org> > *Oggetto:* Re: Windows Script Host support > > > > Hi Luigi, > > > > I remember that 20 years ago ActivePerl (from ActiveState) had this. > https://www.activestate.com/products/perl/ > > I don't think that StrawberryPerl ever had it. > > > > But nowadays WSH is just legacy. It still works, but Microsoft has stopped > making it evolve, favoring PowerShell. > > > > I have quite played with WSH in the past (but using, JavaScript) and often > suffered from its limitations. > > Do you have a motivation for wanting to use Perl from CScript.exe instead > of perl.exe? > > > > Olivier. > > > > Le ven. 12 juin 2020 à 10:21, Luigi Iotti <lu...@iotti.biz> a écrit : > > Hi all, > > somebody know if Strawberry Perl supports Windows Script Host (WSH), aka > ActiveX scripting host (maybe there is a difference between the two > terms)? > I mean, if you may run for example cscript //E:PerlScript myscript.pl, > maybe > changing PerlScript with some other string. > This would permit to use Perl as a scripting engine in applications which > make use of WSH scripting engines. > > Thanks, regards > Luigi > >
