$ perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 40 subversion 0) configuration: Platform: osname=cygwin osvers=3.3.6-341.x86_64 archname=cygwin-thread-multi uname='cygwin_nt-10.0-22631 desktop-88j497t 3.3.6-341.x86_64 2022-09-05 11:15 utc x86_64 cygwin ' config_args='-des -Dusethreads -Dusemultiplicity -Dprefix=/cygdrive/c/cygperl-5.40.0-d -Dlibpth=/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/11' hint=recommended useposix=true d_sigaction=define useithreads=define usemultiplicity=define use64bitint=define use64bitall=define uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n default_inc_excludes_dot=define Compiler: cc='gcc' ccflags ='-U__STRICT_ANSI__ -D_GNU_SOURCE -fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -I/usr/local/include -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2' optimize='-O3' cppflags='-U__STRICT_ANSI__ -D_GNU_SOURCE -fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -I/usr/local/include' ccversion='' gccversion='11.3.0' gccosandvers='' intsize=4 longsize=8 ptrsize=8 doublesize=8 byteorder=12345678 doublekind=3 d_longlong=define longlongsize=8 d_longdbl=define longdblsize=16 longdblkind=3 ivtype='long' ivsize=8 nvtype='double' nvsize=8 Off_t='off_t' lseeksize=8 alignbytes=8 prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='g++' ldflags =' -Wl,--enable-auto-import -Wl,--export-all-symbols -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base -fstack-protector-strong -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/11 /usr/local/lib /usr/lib /usr/lib/w32api /lib libs=-lpthread -ldl -lcrypt perllibs=-lpthread -ldl -lcrypt libc=/usr/lib/libcygwin.a so=dll useshrplib=true libperl=cygperl5_40_0.dll gnulibc_version='' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs dlext=dll d_dlsymun=undef ccdlflags=' ' cccdlflags=' ' lddlflags=' --shared -Wl,--enable-auto-import -Wl,--export-all-symbols -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector-strong' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: HAS_LONG_DOUBLE HAS_STRTOLD HAS_TIMES MULTIPLICITY PERLIO_LAYERS PERL_COPY_ON_WRITE PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV PERL_HASH_FUNC_SIPHASH13 PERL_HASH_USE_SBOX32 PERL_OP_PARENT PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV PERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV USE_64_BIT_ALL USE_64_BIT_INT USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES USE_LOCALE USE_LOCALE_COLLATE USE_LOCALE_CTYPE USE_LOCALE_NUMERIC USE_LOCALE_TIME USE_PERLIO USE_PERL_ATOF USE_REENTRANT_API Built under cygwin Compiled at Jun 10 2024 15:00:07 @INC: /cygdrive/c/cygperl-5.40.0-d/lib/site_perl/5.40.0/cygwin-thread-multi /cygdrive/c/cygperl-5.40.0-d/lib/site_perl/5.40.0 /cygdrive/c/cygperl-5.40.0-d/lib/5.40.0/cygwin-thread-multi /cygdrive/c/cygperl-5.40.0-d/lib/5.40.0