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Sammy
Sammy

Reputation: 26

"EPIC requires a Perl interpreter" in Eclipse Kepler

I have installed Eclipse Kepler and EPIC, the Java Development Kit, and ActivePerl.

When I create a Perl script and try to run it as Perl local I get the error 

To operate correctly, EPIC requires a Perl interpreter

I don't understand why that is. Am I going wrong because I have installed Active Perl? Why is it that my Perl interpreter is not detected by EPIC?

I installed EPIC from the betas here. I went to Help/Install new software/Add then I entered this link and followed the instructions. Then my Eclipse also restarted

I am still unable to run a Perl script because of the above error.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5076

Answers (2)

slayedbylucifer
slayedbylucifer

Reputation: 23512

You need to specify the Perl executable's absolute path in EPIC configuration under Eclipse. Here are are the steps

Eclipse -> Window (on menu) -> Preferences -> PerlEPIC -> Perl Executable (on hte right hand side pane) -> /usr/bin/perl (this is my perl binary on ubuntu Linux)

The /usr/bin/perl part is important; that's my Perl executable.

Note: The above steps were taken from my Eclipse running on Linux, but I hope you get the idea

Upvotes: 6

Tudor Constantin
Tudor Constantin

Reputation: 26861

Make sure you have the perl interpreter in your PATH environment (ie when you issue a perl command from the cmd prompt, it will be found)

Upvotes: 0

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