David Golden wrote:
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Jan Dubois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
StrawberryPerl already bundles MinGW whereas you have to install it separately
in ActivePerl. Otherwise they work pretty much the same at the Perl level.
Once you install MinGW you can use the CPAN shell with ActivePerl just fine.
It even reconfigures itself automatically for use with either VC/nmake or
GCC/dmake depending on whether it finds cl.exe on the PATH or not.
That reminds me that it's also possible that ActivePerl may be faster
than Strawberry Perl because ActivePerl is compiled with MSVC and
Strawberry is compiled with MinGW.
David
Whoops already bit the strawberry bullet.
So far so good.
I use bash with cygwin which automatically adds the paths.
If I use the command prompt with strawberry no problem.
I am looking at gnuwin32 to get some of the unix commands. I cant live
without ls -l .
