Re: Strawberry Perl capabilities?

On Mar 5, 4:39 pm, dpchr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (David Christensen)
wrote:
Shlomi Fish wrote:
Actually, Strawberry Perl is preferable over AS Perl:
http://strawberryperl.com/

Shlomi,

If using AS, then simply install MinGW which gives you the missing
compiler and proper cpan setup. After that, AFAIK you'll have the
same functionality as Strawberry.

http://www.mingw.org/wiki/HOWTO_Install_the_MinGW_GCC_Compiler_Suite

Likewise, if using Strawberry, you can install the PPM module.
Although, I don't know if it provides the GUI interface; it may only
use the command line.

I've not used Strawberry, but given the above info, why is Strawberry
preferred?


 From memory, AS makes (commercial) Perl tools for creating stand-alone
Windows executables and single-file Windows Installer packages.  I also
recall a Perl .NET toolchain.  Does Strawberry Perl have any of these
capabilities?  Must Strawberry Perl be installed first on end-users'
machines?

You can install PAR::Packer and use the pp utility to package
standalone executables. However, that may not be as good as the
commercial AS tools.


It's my understanding that Strawberry Perl provides a C compiler and a
working CPAN environment.  This is well and good for pure Perl
applications, but I also write Perl software that drives GNU
command-line tools (ssh, tar, gzip, rsync, etc.) and/or is driven by
other GNU tools and/or Apache.  I have found Win32 binaries for some of
the pieces, but only Cygwin seems to have everything I need.  How does a
Strawberry Perl developer deal with these cases?

I've never found the need to use cygwin. If cpan doesn't have the
required module, or if you really need the *nix tool, then install the
Windows port of the *nix GNU tools.

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/

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