That's very good to know. I get that this is alpha software, and that there are good reasons not to be able to choose installation paths right now; however, I'd still suggest that in your next release you tweak the installer to tell me "Ready to install into C:\Strawberry-Perl" or some such.

Having now installed and played with it a bit, I noted one other thing that made me glad I'm so careful with pre-release software: even when running Strawberry Perl's perl.exe, my $ENV{PERL5LIB} is "C:\Program Files\ActiveState Perl Dev Kit 6.0\lib\". Fortunately, I didn't put Strawberry Perl in my path by default, but launch it from a Windows .CMD file, so was able to fix the issue: 

@ECHO OFF
REM sperl.cmd - use Strawberry Perl for this session

C:\strawberry-perl\perl\bin\perl -x -S "%0" %*
goto ENDOFPERL
#!perl
#line 6

$basePath="C:\\strawberry-perl\\perl";
local $ENV{Path}="$basePath\\bin;".$ENV{Path};
local $ENV{PERL5LIB}="$basePath\\lib";

system($^X, @ARGV);
__END__
:ENDOFPERL

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This is simple, and works on my system; I'm not sure it would work for everyone else. (And yes, I know that this isn't fixable, really, on your end -- ActiveState sets that env. var. during their install process.)

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