To explain myself, I was actually referring to building perl from source on Win32 rather than using a distro.
As for me, I use(d) strawberry simply because I found the ppa system too cumbersome when I tried to combine it with cpan, and once perl 5.10 came out, it started to drag back, so I switched, and didn't look back. ActiveState may have fixed those issues, but I've been so happy with Strawberry that I didn't even try them once I made the switch. On 1 June 2011 13:04, Sayth Renshaw <flebber.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Sayth Renshaw <flebber.c...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> You don't need Microsoft Visual Studio to install perl modules. I will >>> go on a limb and assume here you're thinking of using MS Visual C >>> compiler to compile perl and subsequent c modules, but even that's not >>> necessary, as you could use MinGW >> > I thought activestate used MinGw and dmake for installing ppm modules. > Having said that I do have strawberry perl installed. > > Sayth > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > > -- Erez La perfection soit atteinte non quand il n'ya plus rien à ajouter, mais quand il n'ya plus rien à retrancher. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
