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I'm not sure what you're getting at. Problems building perl are of no consequence for a Strawberry user because Strawberry provides a binary. And modules that you build with 'sh configure'? Huh? I've never come across anything like that. The CPAN standard way is either 'perl Makefile.PL' or 'perl Build.PL'.

As for portableapps.com - that appears to be a tool for carrying your Windows programs around from one Windows machine to another. Strawberry perl, on the other hand, is an attempt to get a primarily Unixy program (perl) to run on Windows.

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Re^4: Compiling modules for win32 ActivePerl
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 30, 2009 at 10:07 UTC
    I'm not sure what you're getting at. Problems building perl are of no consequence for a Strawberry user because Strawberry provides a binary.

    Like I said, they're all too disjointed , and need to cooperate more easily with each other. Compiling perl is one example. It matters because strawberry doesn't provide 5.10.1 yet, and it doesn't provide blead.

    And modules that you build with 'sh configure'? Huh? I've never come across anything like that. The CPAN standard way is either 'perl Makefile.PL' or 'perl Build.PL'.

    Look in the Alien:: namespace (or different versions of Math::Pari). Without sh it gets complicated for no reason.

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      Are you aware that porting stuff to work properly on strange platforms like Windows is Hard? And that the people doing it are volunteers? I'm sure there's lots of stuff that the Strawberry farmers would like to do to improve things, but there's nothing that they *need to* do.

      Alien::* and its ilk is always gonna be weird. They'll also fail on VMS and on platforms which have the "wrong" shell. I suggest you submit bug reports and patches.

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        I suggest you stop responding to rants, esp when you're uninformed.
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