Hi Saved,
Apparently, you didn't pass any argument to your script from the Command Line Interface (CLI), when running it.
So, your variable @libfiles is empty, thus, when pass to a scalar variable you get the output "0", when printed.
Consider this: 

use warnings;
use strict;
use Data::Printer;

my @gn;
p @gn;    # print [] i.e empty
print my $c = () = @gn;    ## print 0

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So to get the desired result, do this from your CLI:perl script.pl --library=foo,bar,baz then press <ENTER> key.
using the following as your perl script. 
# your script.pl 
use warnings;
use strict;
use Getopt::Long;

my @libfiles;
GetOptions( 'library=s' => \@libfiles );

@libfiles = split( /,/, join( ',', @libfiles ) );

print "@libfiles\n";
my $LstCnt = @libfiles;
print "$LstCnt\n";

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Output 
foo bar baz
3

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So, Getopt::Long is not broken after all.
++ martoz.
Hope this helps

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In reply to Re: Windows strawberry perl Getopt::Long fails by 2teez
in thread Windows strawberry perl Getopt::Long fails by Saved

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