I'm new the the strawberry distro, and need to install a bunch of
CPAN modules. It doesn't seem that it comes with the necessary
build utils to do so.
Is there a single-install that would install all the needed utils
to build the CPAN modules?
I read this is also a place to make suggestions about things to
include for strawberry distros...(?) Maybe this would be a good
thing to include as an optional install (maybe default, w/option to
turn it off?)
As it is, can anyone give me a point to the needed utils for building
CPAN modules on Win32 (or Win32).
All that said -- my real preference would be that all of strawberry and
the modules work on Win64, since I don't want to be limited to the 32-bit
sections of the registry and 32-bit redirections in the file system.
I used to do all of my Win Sys Admin (backups, indexing, cleanup, etc...)
in pearl scripts using Cygwin, but ever since moving to Win7, they all
broke, and compat procedures are a hodgepodge, with gotcha's appearing
at the most inopportune times. So my preference would be to have such
a fully fleshed out system in x64.
My biggest itch is in path separators. While many Win utils handle "/"
as well as "\", some don't. But even some (many?) system calls or api
calls handle either (registry accesses); apparently MS-internal
programmers found using '\\' all over the place as noxious as anyone
else. Given most of their code was in 'C'-syntax compat languages.
But all that aside, right now, I just need a set of utils I can toss
together with Strwbry-Perl, to get me up and running w/CPAN.
A 64-bit BASH replacement would be REALLY appreciated, since there's
already a 64-bit 'Console2' version that could be using it -- with that,
anything I call can run in 64 (or 32-bit) mode, though by default, any
progs I call from the 32-bit bash get invoked in a 32-bit form (if they
work at all). Many times, I am tracking down problems in scripts
and the problem is that they stem from the 32-bit shell having
invoked a 32-bit version of some program or worse -- some registry or
file subtree that is redirected for 32-bit progs -- making me waste time
trying to figure out why it isn't giving me the 'right' answer as I
look at the tree with other 64-bit tool....*face-slap*.
Thanks in helping me come up to speed. VERY appreciated!
Linda
