Thanks for that Rob! A really useful post that I will refer to often in the future.

As strongly cautioned by Fletch:

If you're doing anything serious with Perl you DO NOT want to use the OS' perl as that way lies much pain. Doing so couples you tightly to the OS' upgrade schedule for both the language and (if you're using its package manager for them) CPAN modules.

Having supported and maintained large customer systems for many years on many different Unix flavours, I strongly agree with this advice. The last thing you want is to be flooded with support calls when a "harmless" customer OS update breaks the Perl scripts/modules used by your product!

AFAIK, Windows does not have an "OS Perl" ... so perhaps Strawberry Perl is the nearest thing to that ... and similar dependency considerations apply ... that is, a customer upgrading to a later version of Strawberry Perl may break the Perl scripts in your product ... so building and shipping your own Perl on Windows just got a lot more attractive to me. :)

In reply to Re^2: Windows precompiled binaries or DIY compile by eyepopslikeamosquito
in thread Windows precompiled binaries or DIY compile by ObiPanda

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