I agree with stevieb about not going with Cygwin as the first recommendation on how to get Perl on Windows. Not only is it serious overkill, but the last time that I tried to uninstall Cygwin (about 10-12 years ago) it didn't go very well (i.e. reinstalling Windows was the only way to cleanly uninstall Cygwin).

If someone is wanting to use Perl on Windows without compiling it from source code, I'd recommend going with Strawberry Perl, ActiveState's ActivePerl (also linked to in BrowserUk's post), or Citrus Perl. If there is a strong need for other aspects of the Cygwin environmet, then and only then would I be ok with recommending Cygwin.

In reply to Re^2: MacPerl Replacement for a non-programmer? by dasgar
in thread MacPerl Replacement for a non-programmer? by Anonymous Monk

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