Hello kcott,

You had already a lot of good suggestions, among them MSYS2 which is new to me and I want to explore too, so I just add a few considerations.

Strawberry Perl is an optimal choice: I'm happy with this since many years. I always opt for the portable edition which comes with portableshell.bat launcher that simply launch an appropriate ENV without messing with the system.

Obviously Windows has no a System Perl, but anyway using berrybrew can be useful to have different distro installed: personally I use a homegrown solution, still to be published, but the only important thing is (in case you need custom launchers) is to always prepend strawberry paths to everything: c:\strawberryXX\perl\site\bin; c:\strawberryXX\perl\bin; c:\strawberryXX\c\bin; ....

Personally, in my custom application, I use UnxUtils to have a bounch of friendly commands available in the prompt. Also gnuwin32 proved to be useful and robust. Dunno what you really intend with command line interpreter.

About git I use git CMD but I'm used to have a separate window for this.

CAVEAT as you left windows OSs at XP era you might be interested in new traps included in newer OSs. Mostly FileSystem Redirection. See this article, this post of mine this other one about registry Redirection and this one too. All this posts and others are available in my bibliotheca dedicated section.

In summation: if something is 32 bit you will be redirected, as you can see:

perl -v

This is perl 5, version 28, subversion 0 (v5.28.0) built for MSWin32-x
+86-multi-thread-64int

perl -e "opendir my $dir,'c:/windows/system32'; my $files; while (my $
+ele= readdir($dir)){$files++ } print qq(found $files elements in syst
+em32\n)"

found 3001 elements in system32


perl -v

This is perl 5, version 26, subversion 0 (v5.26.0) built for MSWin32-x
+64-multi-thread

perl -e "opendir my $dir,'c:/windows/system32'; my $files; while (my $
+ele= readdir($dir)){$files++ } print qq(found $files elements in syst
+em32\n)"

found 4576 elements in system32

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In reply to Re: Perl on Windows 10 by Discipulus
in thread Perl on Windows 10 by kcott

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