ActiveState is your friend. Do a PerlMonks search on "Win" to find a few of the gimmes'n'gotchas.

A few things you should be aware of:

• I don't know if Win95 is supported. I've only ever used ActivePerl on Win2000. Just letting you know.
• ActivePerl will do the right thing when it comes to filenames and directories. Use the Unix-style.
• she-bang options will work just fine. The Perl interpreter reads that line, even if Windows doesn't.
• You cannot bind STDIN and STDOUT under Windows. To get this behavior, you'll need to telnet to yourself. (If you don't know what I'm talking about, ignore it.)
• exec and system may or may not work as you expect.

The biggest thing to be aware of is that a lot of things that Unix lets you get away with, Windows won't. A lot of things Windows forces you to do may or may not break your Unix code. There is a way to tell what OS you're on, but I would be very careful about sprinkling your code with it. That's a good way to give yourself heartburn.

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