7 Components: the Function Pages - Developers

export TEMP=/c/temp
Now you can start CPAN in Cygwin, as in Linux, with
cpan
When you first open CPAN, it must be configured. That means you
will need to answer a host of questions that can all be confirmed
with , until you are asked to indicate your area of the
world. Enter the number of your continent, e.g. for “North America,”
and in the next question, your country, e.g. “USA.” Now you
will see a list of servers that you can select by entering one or more
numbers separated by a space. Now you should see the cpan>
prompt.
The program is ready, and you can set up the missing modules using
the install command. TWiki, for example, requires the following
three packages:
install Net::SMTP
install Digest::SHA1
install MIME::Base64
Perl is then equipped for all eventualities of TWiki operation. You
can leave CPAN with the command exit.
Shebang
The Perl script files must be adapted so that they refer to the Perl interpreter.
This allows the web server to “know” what to do with the
file. Under UNIX, it is possible to indicate the type of file or program
with which the script is to be executed at the beginning of a
document, in the so-called shebang line. In our case, it must refer to
the Perl interpreter. The TWiki scripts are set up by default such that
they refer to the standard Perl path under Linux. Thus, under Windows,
you will most likely have to adjust this. You can use the
Cygwin shell to do so. The method shown is also valid for Linux.
First, switch to the bin directory and create a backup for the event
that something does not function properly:
cd /twiki/bin
mkdir .backup
cp * .backup
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