Let me explain to begin with that the incident described below took place before I posted It's Tuesday, so it must be the day for Trouble With Cpan and likewise before I posted Funny-business with Win32 extension module build.

This is what happened. I downloaded the MSI installer for Perl 5.40.2.1 (2025-05-11). A fresh new Perl! Oh joy, oh excitement! oh ...NO. I did something bad. I configured the MSI installer to unpack Strawberry over my existing Strawberry installation (which was v5.32.1). Now I get various errors including the following: 

perl -MWin32::Clipboard -e1
-e: Perl lib version (5.32.1) doesn't match executable 'C:\perl\perl\bin\perl.exe' version (5.40.2) at C:/perl/perl/lib/Config.pm line 62.

Pretty soon after this crippling of Strawberry on my system drive I installed the portable Strawberry onto a USB flash drive. I've made mention of that installation in other recent postings. Now it's working fine, BTW. But what I want to ask, what I am seeking, is: Is there any hope for my previous existing StrawberryPerl, or is it hopelessly trashed? I installed many modules from CPAN with that Strawberry, I'd really like to retrieve all the work that's gone into that installation.

The only thing I've thought of is going backwards and installing the older, previous Strawberry release on top of the new, broken one. I think that if I do so, perl will run. But not much else to be gained, perhaps.

If nothing else gets accomplished by this posting, maybe someone who is about to do what did will read it and be warned to NOT DO THAT.

Jun 09, 2025 at 19:12 UTC

A just machine to make big decisions
Programmed by fellows (and gals) with compassion and vision
We'll be clean when their work is done
We'll be eternally free yes, and eternally young
Donald Fagen —> I.G.Y.
(Slightly modified for inclusiveness)

In reply to Nooo!... Have I trashed my Strawberry? by Intrepid

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