Re^4: Running compiled Perl script on different Windows Server versions

"from my research it seems that there will be no single Perl version which will work with all windows versions, which makes things more complicated."

What makes you think this? Using Strawberry perl, packaging to exe with pp I've not experienced issues using the same exe on several different versions of windows. The user you addressed is unlikely to elaborate on what they suggested, at least not in any logical or meaningful way.

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Re^5: Running compiled Perl script on different Windows Server versions by haj (Vicar) on Sep 30, 2019 at 00:05 UTC
I haven't seen problems with different Perl versions. This isn't relevant for Windows servers 2012 or newer, but of course, you need to select a 32bit Perl if the program should run on 32bit and 64bit Windows systems (Windows 2008 and the hard-to-kill Windows 7 had 32bit variants). If you pack on a 64bit system, you also need to make sure that you add the 32bit versions of DLLs like, e.g. zlib1_.dll, whereas zlib1__.dll is the 64bit version.	[reply]

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Re^5: Running compiled Perl script on different Windows Server versions
by haj (Vicar) on Sep 30, 2019 at 00:05 UTC

I haven't seen problems with different Perl versions.

This isn't relevant for Windows servers 2012 or newer, but of course, you need to select a 32bit Perl if the program should run on 32bit and 64bit Windows systems (Windows 2008 and the hard-to-kill Windows 7 had 32bit variants). If you pack on a 64bit system, you also need to make sure that you add the 32bit versions of DLLs like, e.g. zlib1_.dll, whereas zlib1__.dll is the 64bit version.

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