perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 6 subversion 0) configuration: Platform: osname=MSWin32, osvers=4.0, archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread uname='' config_args='undef' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=undef usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultip ine useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=undef use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usesocks=u Compiler: cc='cl', optimize='-O1 -MD -DNDEBUG', gccversion= cppflags='-DWIN32' ccflags ='-O1 -MD -DNDEBUG -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_D -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX' stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8 d_longlong=undef, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=10 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', =4 alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='link', ldflags ='-nologo -nodefaultlib -release -libpath:"C:\ ORE" -machine:x86' libpth="C:\Perl\lib\CORE" libs= oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib .lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib netapi32.lib uui k32.lib mpr.lib winmm.lib version.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib msvcrt. libc=msvcrt.lib, so=dll, useshrplib=yes, libperl=perl56.lib Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_win32.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' ' cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-dll -nologo -nodefaultlib -release -l \Perl\lib\CORE" -machine:x86' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY USE_ITHREADS PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEX LICIT_SYS Locally applied patches: ActivePerl Build 613 Built under MSWin32 Compiled at Mar 24 2000 12:36:25 @INC: C:/Perl/lib C:/Perl/site/lib .