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in thread New-to-Perl: recommendations for windows setup?

G'day bliako,

I went through this process about 18 months ago. I asked similar questions to you and, like you, I got a lot of replies. It ended up a rather long thread; read it all if you want; here's my three main posts:

Here's a brief, non-exhaustive, overview of features:

In the main, I've had no trouble installing Perl modules. One issue I had, took me a while to sort out: "cpan: Terminal does not support AddHistory.". With another, I needed help from fellow monks: "Update XML::LibXML - can't find "xlocale.h"".

There's a number of open source applications that I access directly from Win10: Firefox; Thunderbird; Vlc; and others.

I use this setup five days a week for $work; and seven days a week for my own projects. Overall, I'm very happy with what I have.

I felt this was getting overly long; I could've written a lot more. Please ask if you have any specific questions about things I haven't touched on, or areas where you'd like further details.

— Ken

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Re^4: New-to-Perl: recommendations for windows setup? [Win10+Cygwin+Perlbrew+...]
by bliako (Abbot) on Feb 17, 2021 at 10:09 UTC

    kcott thanks for sharing your homework! And you do introduce another iceberg: Tk and X-server.

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      "And you do introduce another iceberg: Tk and X-server."

      I'm not sure what you mean. A daunting heap of problems in front of you; and an even greater mass, hidden from sight, waiting to sink your ship? :-)

      I write a lot of Tk programs: many posted here; many more for personal use. I don't have any problems with the setup I described above.

      I do have this file, in my home directory, which might help with some of your problems. 

      # .bash_vars

# To be sourced by .bash_profile.

# Use for potentially volatile environment variables.
# Saves having to make repeated edits to .bash_profile.
# Also, can be sourced independently.

set -a

# For X11
DISPLAY=:0
LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1

# ... irrelevant personal variables ...

# For Tk
XFT=1

# For Git
SSH_ASKPASS=

set +a

      [download]

      — Ken

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        I meant whether an X-Server package needed to be additionally installed on the windows machine. I am not sure if Tk still needs it in Windows or now can use native widgets and wm-calls, and if that distinction is transparent.

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