FindPerl — CMake 4.1.2 Documentation

# FindPerl

Finds a Perl interpreter. Perl is a general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language.

## Result Variables

This module defines the following variables:

`Perl_FOUND`

  True if the Perl executable was found. For backward compatibility, the `PERL_FOUND` variable is also set to the same value.

`PERL_VERSION_STRING`

  The version of Perl found.

## Cache Variables

The following cache variables may also be set:

`PERL_EXECUTABLE`

  Full path to the `perl` executable.

## Examples

Finding the Perl interpreter:

    find_package(Perl)