Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 7) configuration: Platform: osname=MSWin32, osvers=5.0, archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread uname='' config_args='undef' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=undef usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultiplicity=define useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='cl', ccflags ='-nologo -Gf -W3 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1 -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DBUILT_BY_ACTIVESTATE -DNO_HASH_SEED -DU SE_SITECUSTOMIZE -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX', ... Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES USE_SITECUSTOMIZE PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS ... Built under MSWin32 Compiled at Jun 6 2005 13:36:37 .