Back to 32bit for now

It probably should be mentioned that, once you install a mingw64 compiler, you *can* use that compiler with 64-bit ActivePerl by installing ExtUtils::FakeConfig. (It's just ActiveState's automated integration of mingw that's broken for the x64 builds.)

In addition to sourceforge, there's also a few mingw64 compilers available from the Strawberry Perl project.
Specifically, you could take the link to 64_gcctoolchain and download one of the ~30Mb zip files.
There's also some useful pre-built external libraries to be found in the 64 libs folder.

(However, reverting to a 32-bit perl on your 64-bit box is not something you should fret about, IMHO.)

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^3: Problem installing modules on Windows 7 64bit build (Active Perl 2.12.4) by syphilis
in thread Problem installing modules on Windows 7 64bit build (Active Perl 2.12.4) by oldiebutgoodie

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