in reply to strawberry vs activestate perl

Strawberry uses CPAN and activestate uses ppm

Nope - both CPAN and PPM are available on both StrawberryPerl and ActivePerl.

The main difference is that StrawberryPerl comes with the MinGW compiler and dmake, whereas ActivePerl comes with no compiler and make utility at all. However, installing MinGW and dmake for use with ActivePerl is very easy - it's just a matter of running ppm install MinGW.

As to which is better ... they're both very good.

Cheers,
Rob

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Re^2: strawberry vs activestate perl
by dHarry (Abbot) on May 25, 2009 at 08:36 UTC

    As an alternative:

    I used nmake. Depending on your IDE/platform you might have to download nmake from M$. I recall it used to be included in Visual Studio.

    You also need a C-compiler of course, see free compilers for some options. I used the bloodshed IDE (the Mingw compiler goes with that if I recall correctly).

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      Hmmm,

      I recall spending long, arduous hours attempting to use nmake ... but could never get the perl Makefile.PL step to generate a make script that nmake didn't baulk at!!

      You'd never imagine the pleasure and indeed relief, I felt when some kind soul on this here site pointed me in the direction of Strawberry - an act for which I shall be eternally grateful :-D

      A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))
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