Strawberry perl on Win 2016

beckmanel has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Apparently when I run a perl program from the task scheduler, and it runs a sub-process and returns data by standard out, the data does not get back to the calling process. This worked in older versions of Windows. I'm using Strawberry Perl v5.20.2 They now have a latest version as 5.32 . Would the new version work with this later version of Windows? If I upgrade the perl version, will modules that have been added to the basic distribution, be lost? Thank You

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Re: Strawberry perl on Win 2016 by syphilis (Archbishop) on Aug 24, 2023 at 03:50 UTC
They now have a latest version as 5.32 They actually also provide perl-5.36.1 and perl-5.38.0 releases at https://github.com/StrawberryPerl/Perl-Dist-Strawberry/releases: strawberry-perl-5.36.1.1-64bit-PDL.zip strawberry-perl-5.36.1.1-64bit-portable.zip strawberry-perl-5.36.1.1-64bit.msi strawberry-perl-5.38.0.1-64bit-PDL.zip strawberry-perl-5.38.0.1-64bit-portable.zip strawberry-perl-5.38.0.1-64bit.msi AFAIK, they will all (as well as 5.32.1) work with your "later version of Windows". I recommend the ".zip" versions as they will operate independently of other perls installed on your machine ... unless you take steps to make it not so. Basically, just download the zip, unpack it to some location, and execute "portableshell.bat" (which is in that chosen location). If I upgrade the perl version, will modules that have been added to the basic distribution, be lost? Pure perl modules will still work, but those modules that required compilation of C and/or XS code will not be compatible with the new version. Cheers, Rob	[reply]
Re: Strawberry perl on Win 2016 by harangzsolt33 (Deacon) on Aug 24, 2023 at 02:37 UTC
I'm not sure I understand your question. Are you planning to upgrade to Windows Server 2022 and Strawberry Perl 5.32? And you are not able to capture stdout when you run a shell command using backticks in Windows Server 2016 with Strawberry Perl 5.20.2? Is that the problem? Is there a way you could reroute stdout to a file perhaps? I'm just trying to understand what's not working. Could you provide a little sample code of what's not working?	[reply]