[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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