Need Uri for Activeperl installation in docker - docker

Question

For my use case, I need to create a windows container of Activeperl application. I found a GitHub link which explains the process for a Strawberry Perl.
Code snippet from the link
RUN \
if(!(Test-Path -Path 'C:\Temp')) \
{ \
New-Item \
-Path 'C:\Temp' \
-ItemType Directory \
-Verbose | Out-Null ; \
} ; \
\
Invoke-WebRequest \
-Uri "http://strawberryperl.com/download/$ENV:PERL_VERSION/strawberry-perl-$ENV:PERL_VERSION-64bit.zip" \
-OutFile "C:\\Temp\\strawberry-perl-$ENV:PERL_VERSION-64bit.zip" \
-UseBasicParsing \
-Verbose ; \
\
Expand-Archive \
-Path "C:\\Temp\\strawberry-perl-$ENV:PERL_VERSION-64bit.zip" \
-DestinationPath 'C:\Program Files\Perl' \
-Verbose ; \
\
Set-ItemProperty \
-Path 'HKLM:\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Session Manager\\Environment' \
-Name 'Path' \
-Value $($ENV:Path + ';C:\Program Files\Perl\perl\bin;C:\Program Files\Perl\perl\site\bin;C:\Program Files\Perl\c\bin') \
-Verbose ;
Strawberryperl Uri - http://strawberryperl.com/download/$ENV:PERL_VERSION/strawberry-perl-$ENV:PERL_VERSION-64bit.zip
For me, I want an equivalent Uri for downloading Activeperl instead of Strawberryperl. I am even ok with a Windows Container Image with activeperl installed already. I just couldn't find any of them.

Answer 1

Since ActivePerl doesn't provide an option for downloading a zipped version of Perl.
This is how I was able to transfer an active Perl to a Windows container
In my host windows machine, I have downloaded the Active Perl from https://activeperl.software.informer.com/download/
The downloaded file is ActivePerl-5.28.1.0000-MSWin32-x64-e90bcbf1.msi
I have installed this at the location C:\Perl64\
Copied this Perl64 folder into a new folder called Perl_root, so that this can be copied into the container via Dockerfile. Create a file called Dockerfile in the same location as Perl_root.
Filesystem_Root
C:\
|__ docker_trial
|___ Perl_root
|___ Dockerfile
Dockerfile:
#pulled a windows container from docker hub
FROM mcr.microsoft.com/windows/servercore:1607-amd64
ADD Perl_root .
Open a command prompt and navigate to the folder where dockerfile is present.
>docker build --tag dockertrail:1.0 .
>docker run -it --name tag1 dockertrail:1.0
Once the terminal inside the docker container opens up, open a PowerShell and create the update the environment variable Path as below
Powershell>[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("Path",$env:Path+"C:\Perl64\site\bin;C:\Perl64\bin","Machine")
exit from the PowerShell and container. Now restart the container tag1, for the environment variable to work.
start the container tag1 again, once it starts, open up a PowerShell and run the command $env:Path you must be able to see the perl path being added to environment variables.
Now check the functioning of Perl using the command perl -v
This should print the perl verion.