[CMI.PM] Perl installable for Win2K/XP?

Ed Thomson ethomson at ravecomm.com
Tue Nov 11 11:16:30 CST 2003


Mitch Kutzko wrote:
> Hi, folks -- Another question for you....
> 
> I'm looking for a free version of Perl for Win2K/WinXP systems.  Something
> recent, stable, and compatable with CPAN, preferably.
> 
> What recommendations does anyone have?  The last time I had to solve this
> problem, I got lucky and someone had a licensed copy of the MKS Utilities
> version of Perl, which is now *way* too old to be useful in this context.

I always install cygwin <http://www.cygwin.org/> on windows boxes.
It helps ease the pain of... well, windows.  It includes a recent
version of Perl.  I don't know how well it deals with CPAN, but I've
never had any problems with it.

-Ed



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