c:\test>perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 10 subversion 0) configuration: Platform: osname=MSWin32, osvers=5.2, archname=MSWin32-x64-multi-thread ... Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS PERL_MALLOC_WRAP PL_OP_SLAB_ALLOC USE_64_BIT_INT USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO USE_SITECUSTOMIZE Locally applied patches: ActivePerl Build 1004 [287188] 33741 avoids segfaults invoking S_raise_signal() (on Linux) 33763 Win32 process ids can have more than 16 bits 32809 Load 'loadable object' with non-default file extension 32728 64-bit fix for Time::Local Built under MSWin32 Compiled at Sep 3 2008 12:22:07 @INC: C:/Perl64/site/lib C:/Perl64/lib .