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Thanks, Rob for your reply.

But, no, it is not what I'm looking for: I don't have any script to run a priori, I just need a minimal installed perl environment (with some extra modules) to run any perl script written as an Inkscape extension.

That's quite different: it smells like strawberry but without all the bells and whistles needed for perl development as docs, pods, gcc, c environment, cpan modules builder, etc. which, for the lambda end-user, is just a waste of disk space as he will not even know they exist and what they're made for.

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Re^3: Runtime only Perl for Win32
by syphilis (Archbishop) on Feb 03, 2019 at 01:13 UTC
    But, no, it is not what I'm looking for

    UPDATE: Corrected "vendor" to "perl/vendor" (below)

    Ok ... back to thinking that you do want a perl installation of some sort.
    Note that Strawberry Perl includes a couple of sizeable directories that are not part of a standard windows perl installation - namely "c" and "perl/vendor". (The "cpan", "licences" and "win32" directories are also absent on a standard build of Windows perl - but, between them, they take up less than 2 megabytes.)
    My standard build of latest blead (version 5.29.7) on Windows 7 consumes 45 megabytes on my hard drive - which can be tarred and gzipped down to 12 megabytes.
    The same figures would apply also to perl-5.28.0.

    I'm thinking that shouldn't be considered to be "too large and unwieldy".
    Even over a slow internet connection, a 12 megabyte download should be quite acceptable.
    And 45 megabytes of space is hardly a consideration in the 21st century.

    Cheers,
    Rob
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