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Re: Which Perl for my new XP box?by fokat (Deacon) |
on Mar 30, 2003 at 02:24 UTC ( [id://246673]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
ActiveState is what I recommend to everybody and this is what lives in my Win98SE box at home. I am not familiar with other pre-compiled distribution for the Wintel platform, but anyway this seems to be the most popular anyway. I think your other choice, provided you have a C compiler, is to build your own Perl from sources. I've never needed to do that... You might also take a look at running Perl under cygwin, but you should have a *very* good reason to do so. Just remember to grab gzip/gunzip and nmake along with your ActiveState distribution :) Best regards -lem, but some call me fokat Update: Also check which build of ActivePerl will you download. At the time of this writing, both 5.6.1 and 5.8.0 are out. I am running 5.8.0 in my PowerBook and have found no issues with it so far, but YMMV.
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