I’ve recently been working on a project that will probably have to run on Windows in the end, which means I needed to use a Windows Perl.
ActiveState has recently changed their licensing and model so it’s very much driven into the cloud, and that’s not what I wanted at all.
Strawberry Perl to the rescue! It’s a nice package which includes a compiler so you can build modules and have everything you need to run Perl, all stuffed into c:\Strawberry. It’s a pretty well put together system. At least, until you need to compile a third party library for it. Then it gets harder.
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