in reply to perl and cygwin

Yes

  1. http://activestate.com/activeperl/downloads/
  2. http://code.google.com/p/camelbox/
  3. http://strawberryperl.com/

And more.

Wait. I misunderstood the question. You wish to run perl scripts under cygwin from without? Just run them. C:\cygwin\bin\perl script.pl ...

-Paul