Strawberry Perl is my go-to package for getting a sane development environment in Windows. Just today, I was trying to install App::Ack on an old Dell, and found Strawberry Perl very helpful in the process. Compiling modules with C extensions like ack requires make<https://github.com/petdance/ack2/issues/255>, which doesn't work so well in Windows.
I've been using GNU make for Windows<http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/make.htm>with limited success, but often I come across errors related to DOS vs cygwin paths, that works just as well in Command Prompt as it does in Git Bash <http://msysgit.github.io/>? Any chance we could distribute this make.exe as part of Strawberry Perl? If not, I host a simple project for producing and hosting MSI one-click installers <https://github.com/mcandre/make-win> for make, I'd be happy to point this to a new improved make if someone can help me develop it. -- Cheers, Andrew Pennebaker www.yellosoft.us
