ikegami wrote:
> Stick to one OS! Strawberry already provides the tools you need.

Aye. Good advice. My memory is not reliable these days: I saw this discussed wrt Gnu 'make' not so long ago here on PMo. The first tool CPAN config asks for is 'make'. And I couldn't find it in the Strawberry utilities. Now that I've been sharply reminded I've gone and looked more thoroughly on the USB stick, and there is D:/SBP/c/bin/gmake.exe and D:/SBP/c/bin/mingw32-make.exe present. I think I'll tell cpan to use gmake.exe since they are identical files.

So I used all Cygwin tools as the config rolled on. Misled by not finding make as make.exe. Now I'll have to change all the external tools. ;-(