As side note, maybe you are happy to know that is possible and frequent to have such tools at disposal and, most important, working. strawberryperl release notes contains 34 external tools and among them binutils and make and dmake and gcc so that you can feel more comfortable while in shaggy environments.

During lasts yaers i had no problems with cpan or cpanp clients that sheep with StrawberryPerl.

Just for your info.

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