How to tell texindy where to look for the script engine?

Question

I decided to start using xindy. I'm using MikTex on a Windows machine so I realized I need to install Perl manually, because when running texindy (in TeXworks) it says:

texindy.exe: The script engine could not be found.
texindy.exe: Data: scriptEngine="perl.exe"

So I read Which Perl to install for Xindy with MiKTeX (on Windows)? and installed Strawberry Perl. I get the same message, so I'm thinking I should tell texindy where Perl is installed. Am I right? How do I do this?

or just install texlive instead of miktex , on windows TL brings its own perl so texindy works out of the box — daleif, Jun 13 '18 at 14:00
What happens if you call in a command line or in a powershell window perl --version? — Ulrike Fischer, Jun 13 '18 at 14:48

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 13 '18 at 15:59

The message disappeared as follows: I ran texindy from a command line instead of via TeXworks. By doing so MikTeX realized that the script xindy.pl (or was it texindy.pl? I don't remember) was missing, and it installed it.

For the record: After that the message changed to

xindy.pl: input file <filename> does not exist at <path>/MiKTeX 2.9/scripts/xindy/xindy.pl line 549.

but I assume that's another story.

How to tell texindy where to look for the script engine?

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