As said by duc, ActiveState's port works well. It also has a reasonable set of modules for Windows. I've not used Indigo Perl, PXPerl, or any of the other Windows ports of Perl listed in http://www.cpan.org/ports/#win32.

Do not base the decision of which version of Perl to installed based on the number of modules. Modules can always be added later, using CPAN.

You could, of course, compile from source. Nonetheless, I think your best choice would be to use ActiveState's port. Just don't install a beta version.

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