Was checking for some information at the Strawberry Perl site and via search engine on using the mingw compiler distribution I already have installed rather than ending up with an extra compiler installation. I checked the Strawberry Perl FAQ (http://win32.perl.org/wiki/index.php?title=Strawberry_Perl#FAQ) which would have been a very useful place to put information like this, but didn't see it mentioned. I did read something about needing to change the path but was unclear if that was all that was needed.
Can I delete the extra mingw compiler downloaded with Strawberry Perl and simply adjust my path via the command line to point to both the Strawberry Perl bin directory and the mingw bin directory? Is that all I'd need to do or are there other settings required. I run a lot of different compilers on my system and usually set to one or another using a batch file with the appropriate path information before compiling. Has anyone tried running Strawberry Perl through msys and is there any setup information for doing so? MinGW's msys supplies a version of Perl in the msysDTK file and Strawberry Perl supplies a copy of MinGW. Both of these appear to be older versions. (I don't think MinGW specifically supplies Strawberry Perl or Vanilla Perl, but I don't think their Perl distribution is the latest either.) What I really want is to run the best and latest distributions of both MinGW and Perl. Is there any way these two projects can get together and work out supplying later versions of each other's tools? I know the MinGW developers have been working hard on redesigning their installation program. Mingw-get is supposed to not only be able to download MinGW and various support programs like gdb, msys, etc., it's also designed to download other programs from other repositories using distribution lists in XML. Maybe Strawberry or Vanilla Perl could incorporate mingw-get in their installation or provide MinGW developers with a distribution list to use mingw-get to install Strawberry or Vanilla Perl? Thanks. Sincerely, Laura http://www.distasis.com/cpp
