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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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How do I set up Strawberry Perl in MSYS?

I have Strawberry Perl and have msys Perl 5.6 removed. Now perl will invoke Strawberry (due to PATH env) but how do I map the perl command in .pl or other Perl script files which have #!/bin/perl or #!/usr/bin/perl shebang lines? I was thinking of…
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Windows script auto-update replacing current executable with exec?

I'm trying to build a quick auto-updater in Perl Windows. I've noticed that when I call cpanp to install the update of the package it fails to install a new version of the script because the script is currently running. I'm calling cpanp with…
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What are the differences between Vanilla Perl and Strawberry Perl?

Strawberry Perl is "Open Source Perl for Windows that is exactly the same as Perl everywhere else". Vanilla Perl "provides a Perl distribution that is as close to the Perl core as possible." Strawberry Perl is built on Vanilla Perl. Both…
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How to change @INC in Strawberry Perl?

How can I change @INC permanently, without changing my scripts, in Strawberry Perl? I'm aware of -I, but don't want to invoke that switch every time.
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Executing Perl script inside IntelliJ Idea

I'm trying to use IntelliJ Idea to work on a perl script. I installed the perl plugin for IDEA as well as Strawberry Perl for Windows (10). The syntax highlighting and other features work, but this is what happens when I try to run the…
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What is the proper way to access BerkeleyDB with Perl?

I've been having some problems with using BerkeleyDB. I have multiple instances of the same code pointed to a single repository of DB files, and everything runs fine for 5-32 hours, then suddenly there is a deadlock. The command prompts stop right…
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What part of Perl does not like NTFS Junctions?

I like the Vista style for pathing, so on a XP machine I've created NTFS junctions C:\Users -> C:\Documents and Settings and ~\Documents -> ~\My Documents, so that I only ever have to write one style of path C:\Users\me\Documents. However,…
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How can I make Strawberry Perl's cpan(1) find perl?

I'm having trouble installing Template module with Strawberry Perl. cpan Template yields the following: Writing Makefile for AppConfig C:strawberryperlbinperl.exe: not found dmake.EXE: Error code 255, while making 'blib\lib\.exists'` I haven't…
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How do I install Net::Pcap for Strawberry Perl in Windows 7?

I try to install Net::Pcap in Windows, but it gives the following error messages: c:\P P> cpan cpan> install Net::Pcap socket.h patched... ok looking for -lwpcap... yes checking for pcap_lib_version() in -lwpcap... no - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -…
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How to read a file with long file name with unicode in Strawberry perl not using Win32::Unicode::File?

I have a file located in a directory, with danish characters in it, on a Windows XP machine. I use Strawberry perl and would like to read this file. The following code works fine: use Win32::Unicode::File; # Some code left out.... $fname…
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How do I upgrade strawberry perl without wiping \perl\site\lib\ and \perl\site\bin\?

I downloaded the 5.12.3 installer to upgrade my 5.12.1 installation. After installing 5.12.3, my previously installed cpan modules are gone. Is this expected behavior? Should I be backing up my library before upgrading to prevent this?
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Can I embed Strawberry Perl in a VC++ 6.0 compiled application or use Inline::C with the compiler mismatch?

I am looking at embedding perl 5.10 in a large C++ application compiled with VC++ 6.0. This leads to two questions. 1) Is it a bad idea to simply use Strawberry Perl as a dependency rather than compile my own perl with VC++ 6.0? Would Strawberry…
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Eclipse CDT Debug not in executable format: File format not recognized after strawberry installation

Maybe I'm missing something obvious since I searched the internet for quite a while but could not find a solution for the following problem: I'm using Eclipse Kepler SP2 (Build id: 20140224-0627) with CDT and MinGW as compiler backend. Debugging C…
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Do I need the Perl bin directory in the PATH to run perl programs (on Windows)?

Traditionally, I would just have C:\perl\bin in my PATH variable, but due to version conflicts I would like to keep different perl versions at locations C:\Perl-versionXY\bin and just execute my Perl scripts via directly invoking…
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installing wxPerl on strawberry

I am trying to install wxperl on strawberry. I can't install Alien::wxWidgets. I tried everything I can think of. Usually I get an error like this one: Creating library file:…
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