How to operate the Perl debugger in Eclipse/EPIC

Question

I have installed ActivePerl, and I would like to debug a Perl program using Eclipse and EPIC.

I have installed Eclipse and EPIC, they look OK. (It's doing basic syntax checking on an example Perl program). I then used PPM to install PadWalker (since that's what they say is needed to use the step debugger).

Now, in Eclipse, when I try to step through the program, I get the error: "Error: install PadWalker module to see local variables".

In PPM, I notice that it had installed PadWalker in area: "site", while all other Perl modules are installed in area: "perl".

For area: "site", @INC shows: ... .../Environments/Active Perl/site/lib

and for area: "perl", @INC shows: ... .../Environments/Active Perl/lib

What should I do?

My system: Windows 7 x64.

Answer 1

I found the answer in another forum. One has to install the "testing" EPIC version. Then the debugger works. (only after a certain bug in Cwd.pm is fixed). (On Windows).