Every software loves to install perl on my system here is what I found. ( output edited for clarity)

c:\>dir perl.exe /s/p

c:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe

c:\oracle\product\11.2.0\client_1\perl\bin\perl.exe

c:\oracle\product\11.2.0\client_2\perl\bin\perl.exe

c:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\perl.exe

c:\Strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe

Here are the versions c:\>c:\cygwin\bin\perl -v This is perl 5, version 14, subversion 2 (v5.14.2) built for cygwin-thread-multi-64int

c:\>c:\oracle\product\11.2.0\client_1\perl\bin\perl -v This is perl, v5.10.0 built for MSWin32-x64-multi-thread

c:\>c:\oracle\product\11.2.0\client_2\perl\bin\perl -v This is perl, v5.10.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread

c:\>"c:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\perl" -v This is perl, v5.8.8 built for msys

c:\>c:\Strawberry\perl\bin\perl -v This is perl 5, version 14, subversion 2 (v5.14.2) built for MSWin32-x64-multi-thread

Here is path: c:\>path=C:\Strawberry\perl\bin

c:\>path PATH=C:\Strawberry\perl\bin

c:\>perl -v This is perl 5, version 14, subversion 2 (v5.14.2) built for MSWin32-x64-multi-thread

Here is error c:\>perl -V Perl lib version (5.12.3) doesn't match executable version (v5.14.2) at c:\Strawberry\perl \lib/Config.pm line 50. Compilation failed in require. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.

Please help.

Thanks R.

In reply to Muliple perl installation sucks! by Anonymous Monk

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