Perl Dev Kit

Perl Dev Kit (PDK) provides essential tools for building and deploying Perl applications. PDK features cross-platform wrapping and application builders for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris*, and AIX*, plus a suite of tools to speed development and improve code quality across teams. The comprehensive feature set includes PerlApp, PerlCritic, Coverage Analyzer, Filter Builder, VBScript Converter, Graphical Debugger, PerlMSI, PerlCtrl, PerlNET, PerlSvc and PerlTray. PDK 8 supports ActivePerl 5.8 and ActivePerl 5.10.

Deploy

• Develop and deploy your Perl programs to anyone on any platform with PerlApp's new cross-platform wrapping.
• Deliver code as executables or as Windows Services, ActiveX components, .NET assemblies or in the System Tray.
• Easily create MSI files using Perl code.

Code

• Be your own best critic: Enforce best-practices or personalized coding policies against your source code. Great for teams!
• Filter text interactively, with on-the-fly results.
• Jumpstart your transition from VBScript to Perl.

Fix

• Improve code performance and reliability through coverage experiments, hotspot analysis and data set comparisons.
• Find problems fast with the nimble Windows debugger.

Fly solo or as part of a team with PDK 8's cross-platform deployment and improved features for team development

• Code that conforms: Using PerlCritic, you and your whole team can code to best standards, industry standards, or your own customized standards. Entirely customizable PerlCritic allows you to run defined policies against your source code.
• Create on any platform, deploy to any platform: PerlApp makes it easy to bundle source code and modules into executables for distribution. And now, with cross-platform wrapping, you can develop executables in one environment and deploy to any platform. PerlApp includes application builders for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, and AIX.
• Enhancements and goodies: PDK 8 includes a comprehensive feature set for Perl developers, including PerlApp, Coverage Analyzer, Filter Builder, VBScript Converter, Graphical Debugger, PerlMSI, PerlCtrl, PerlNET, PerlCritic, PerlSvc, and PerlTray.

General

• Recommended 35MB hard disk space for typical install
  ActivePerl 5.8.8.822 or later for Perl 5.8 support.
  ActivePerl 5.10.0.1002 or later for Perl 5.10 support.
  

Windows

• PerlNET requires .NET 2.0.
  x86/x64 architectures only, IE 5 or later
  Windows 2000 SP4 or later
  

Mac

• OS X 10.4+ (PowerPC)
  OS X 10.4+ (Intel)
  

Linux

• glibc-2.3 or later (e.g. Red Hat 9+, Oracle Enterprise Linux 4+)
  Solaris
• Solaris 8 or later (Sparc)
  Solaris 10 (x86)
  

AIX

• AIX 5.1 or later (PowerPC)