Re: perl.exe in a single file for Windows

Strawberry Perl offers a no-install, Portable Edition. You can investigate the various offerings, here.

If you want a quick and easy way to fetch and maintain multiple portable editions simultaneously, you can use berrybrew. Technically, it doesn't get "installed" either, nor do the perl instances you fetch and maintain using it.

-stevieb

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Re^2: perl.exe in a single file for Windows by Anonymous Monk on May 08, 2019 at 02:26 UTC
Stevieb, Thanks for pointing out the no-install portable version of Strawberry Perl for Windows. What I am actually looking for is a tiny, minimal Perl interpreter, in a single file, suited for one to learn the basics of a programming language. Something with the kind of functionality of the early versions of BASIC, and taking about a few hundred KB would do fine. The portable version of Strawberry Perl at 148 MB seems to be a well-endowed version of Perl, more suited to meet higher level demands. - Anonymous Monk	[reply]
Re^3: perl.exe in a single file for Windows by marto (Cardinal) on May 08, 2019 at 06:40 UTC
It's a full modern build of perl, with lots of helpful extras. Sounds like your requirements are quite specific. Obtaining old versions of Perl links to downloads of ancient versions of perl. Alternatively Run Perl 5 in the Browser! o	[reply]