chuckd has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I want to install the 64 bit version of Strawberry Perl. When I install, do I need to do anything different or will it install automatically on my 64 bit machine? How do I configure it to install the 64 bit version?

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Re: installing Strawberry Perl 64 bit
by syphilis (Archbishop) on Aug 24, 2008 at 02:45 UTC
    Hope I'm wrong but, afaik, the only builds of Strawberry Perl in existence are 32-bit builds (which will work quite well on both 32 bit and 64 bit systems - no special steps need to be taken).

    Cheers,
    Rob
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Re: installing Strawberry Perl 64 bit
by Khen1950fx (Canon) on Aug 24, 2008 at 03:18 UTC
    After install, you can check to see if 64-bit is supported:

    #!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Config;

my $Config;

if ($Config{use64bitint}) {
    print "Supports 64-bit numbers\n";
}
else {
    print "Does not support 64-bit numbers\n"
}

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      If you're interested in addressing large amounts of memory it is probably more appropriate to look at $Config{use64bitall} than $Config{use64bitint}.
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