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Strawberry Perl is an open source community driven distribution of the Perl programming language for the Microsoft Windows platform.

Strawberry Perl is a environment for MS Windows containing all you need to run and develop perl applications. It is designed to be as close as possible to perl environment on UNIX systems.

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Should I choose ActivePerl or Strawberry Perl for Windows?

I'm totally new to Perl, but I'd like to try it out. I read about two rival distributions available for Windows platform (I guess there's just Perl on other OSes :). Wikipedia says that Strawberry Perl comes with additional development tools to…
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Which version of Perl should I use on Windows?

The win32.perl.org web site provides references to several Perl distributions for MS Windows. For a long time I have been using ActivePerl from ActiveState but recently I switched to Strawberry Perl. IMHO The only advantage that Active Perl still…
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Installing modules using Strawberry Perl

Until now I used ActiveState's ActivePerl, and used the ppm for installing modules. Last week I moved to Strawberry Perl, but I don't know how I should install modules using Strawberry Perl. What is some information on how module installation is…
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How to compile a Perl script to a Windows executable with Strawberry Perl?

What would be the easiest way to compile a simple Perl script to an executable under Windows with Strawberry Perl (as I understand it's possible and free)? In the past I've used ActiveState compiler and perl2exe and was simple enough. However, now…
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How do I run programs with Strawberry Perl?

A coworker is trying to use ack (a Perl program) on his Windows machine, having tried it under Linux and decided he definitely wants to use it. He managed to get Strawberry Perl installed on his machine, but can't seem to figure out what to do to…
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Omitting return statement in C++

I just had some weird behavior from a version of g++ for Windows that I got with Strawberry Perl. It allowed me to omit a return statement. I have a member function that returns a structure consisting of two pointers, called a boundTag: struct…
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Does Strawberry Perl still wipe out /site/lib and /site/bin contents?

The question How do I upgrade strawberry perl without wiping \perl\site\lib\ and \perl\site\bin\? was asked in 2011 and it appears Strawberry did throw out any CPAN installs the user did whenever we upgraded to a newer version. Is this still the…
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How do I install a module? Strawberry Perl issues

I am trying to install a Perl module within Strawberry Perl on Windows 7. I'm running the below command and am getting a slew of messages I don't understand. It looks like I am getting 500 errors, as though the page isn't reachable. However, when I…
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How do I create drag-and-drop Strawberry Perl programs?

I've got a Strawberry Perl program that accepts a single-file as a command-line argument. How can I set things up such that I can drag and drop the desired file onto the Strawberry Perl program (or a wrapper around it) and the program runs with…
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How can I modify my cygwin environment to use Strawberry Perl instead of the packaged Perl distribution?

I currently use Strawberry Perl as my primary Perl distribution. However, I have some applications that make Perl calls through cygwin. These generally fail because they are calling the version of Perl that was packaged with cygwin, and only looking…
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How to Install DBD::Oracle in Strawberry Perl

I am trying to install DBD::Oracle using the CPAN shell in Strawberry Perl. I initially experienced an error because the Makefile could not locate an OCI library, so I installed the instant client from Oracle. I thought this would fix the problem,…
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ZMQ::LibZMQ3 and strawberry perl

I am trying to install ZMQ::LibZMQ3 on strawberry perl but get the below error message while installing this module also my zmq libs and includes are found under C:\Program Files\ZeroMQ 3.2.2 : cpan> install ZMQ::LibZMQ3 Running install for module…
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May I use Strawberry Perl and ActiveState Perl simultaneously on one computer?

I used to delete my ActivePerl once, and all the installed modules were lost. So now I am very careful with this kind of issue. Due to some reason, I want to use Strawberry Perl now, while keeping ActiveState's ActivePerl in use. Will this cause…
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All of a sudden, perl scripts don't work unless I prefix them with "perl" and give full path to the script

I've been using my own personal environment that's worked consistently for over 20 years. I started incorporating many perl scripts about 14 years ago. I've been using the same tree of command-line interpreters for 22 yrs (NDOS->4DOS->4NT->TCMD, all…
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Sequenced steps to install Perl Strawberry, MySQL, and DBD::mysql on Windows XP

I'm looking for a good guide with sequenced and detailed steps for installing Perl Strawberry, MySQL, and DBD::mysql on Windows XP. The main goal I want to accomplish here is to have the ability to create databases and perform regular actions…
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