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

Which files must remain intact in an ActiveState (5.6) installation to c:\Perl in order to run a barebones minimal Perl? Thanks. Bob

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Re: Bare minimum ActiveState
by turnstep (Parson) on Aug 17, 2000 at 00:01 UTC

    For the bare, and I mean bare, minumum, you need:

    • C:\Perl\Bin\Perl.exe
    • C:\Perl\Bin\Perl56.exe
    However, you'll run up against problems real quick, and probably will want to include as needed some of the modules in C:\Perl\Lib - these include some pretty basic ones, too, such as strict.pm, benchmark.pm, and CGI.pm, so be very, very careful. :)

      I don't have Windows available at the moment, but I would think that everything in the \bin directory should remain there, namely perl.dll or whatever that file is called - I remember perl.exe being only 50k or something in size ...