Perl on win32 localhost

[filburt1]

I plan on installing Perl on my Windows XP machine running Apache 2 for the purpose of installing the W3C markup validator. The installation instructions (http://validator.w3.org/docs/install.html) state a list of modules needed. Does Perl come with these by default, or do I have to install them--if they're even available for Windows? I have never used Perl before, ever, on any platform.

As a side question, are there any web services using SOAP, WSDL, etc. for validating markup according to W3C standards? My goal is to validate custom code entirely server-side and displaying the results on my site, and the last thing I want to do is scrape the results of programatically submitting a URI via http://validator.w3.org/ .

[AWS]

Pick up nmake.exe, if you have VC6 installed you'll have it, and when you need to install any perl modules that don't come installed you can compile them with it. I was able to compile any perl modules that I needed just like you would on Linux.
I think all the modules on that list are installed by the activestate installer or after you install they have packages to install them.

[filburt1]

Pick up nmake.exe, if you have VC6 installed you'll have it, and when you need to install any perl modules that don't come installed you can compile them with it. I was able to compile any perl modules that I needed just like you would on Linux.
I think all the modules on that list are installed by the activestate installer or after you install they have packages to install them.
I have Visual Studio.net 2003 (including C++ support if I want to install it). Would that work in place of nmake?

[AWS]

I'm not sure if it is included with .Net. I use vc6++ and only use .Net for C# and VB web apps. It was in prior versions for backwards compatibility to compile console programs.
You can find it by doing a search on Google.

[filburt1]

I got a Hello World page through Apache/ActivePerl working. I did have to change the shebang to the path to PHP on my system instead of the common /usr/bin/perl.

However, I have no idea what to do to get the W3C validator working. All of the instructions, config files, etc. completely assume you're using Unix.

[AWS]

Set the path to perl as !#perl in your scripts. ActiveState sets perl in your path so you don't need the full shebang.