[~]$ perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 14 subversion 4) configuration: Platform: osname=cygwin, osvers=1.7.35(0.28653), archname=cygwin-thread-multi-64int uname='cygwin_nt-6.3-wow cygwin 1.7.35(0.28653) 2015-02-16 13:18 i686 cygwin ' config_args='-d -e -Dprefix=/usr -Dmksymlinks -Dusethreads -Darchname=i686-cygwin-threads-64int -Dlibperl=cygperl5_14.dll -Dcc=gcc -Dld=g++ -Accflags=-ggdb -O2 -pipe -Wimplicit-function-declaration -fdebug-prefix-map=/mnt/share/maint/perl.x86/build=/usr/src/debug/perl-5.14.4-3 -fdebug-prefix-map=/mnt/share/maint/perl.x86/src/perl-5.14.4=/usr/src/debug/perl-5.14.4-3 -fwrapv' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef use64bitint=define, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='gcc', ccflags ='-DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -U__STRICT_ANSI__ -ggdb -O2 -pipe -Wimplicit-function-declaration -fdebug-prefix-map=/mnt/share/maint/perl.x86/build=/usr/src/debug/perl-5.14.4-3 -fdebug-prefix-map=/mnt/share/maint/perl.x86/src/perl-5.14.4=/usr/src/debug/perl-5.14.4-3 -fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -fstack-protector', optimize='-O3', cppflags='-DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -U__STRICT_ANSI__ -ggdb -O2 -pipe -Wimplicit-function-declaration -fdebug-prefix-map=/mnt/share/maint/perl.x86/build=/usr/src/debug/perl-5.14.4-3 -fdebug-prefix-map=/mnt/share/maint/perl.x86/src/perl-5.14.4=/usr/src/debug/perl-5.14.4-3 -fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -fstack-protector' ccversion='', gccversion='4.9.2', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12 ivtype='long long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=8, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='g++', ldflags =' -Wl,--enable-auto-import -Wl,--export-all-symbols -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base -fstack-protector -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib /lib libs=-lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lcrypt -lgdbm_compat perllibs=-ldl -lcrypt libc=/usr/lib/libc.a, so=dll, useshrplib=true, libperl=cygperl5_14.dll gnulibc_version='' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' ' cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags=' --shared -Wl,--enable-auto-import -Wl,--export-all-symbols -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV PERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV USE_64_BIT_INT USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO USE_PERL_ATOF USE_REENTRANT_API Locally applied patches: rurban/0c612ce82 Fix building static extensions on cygwin, -UUSEIMPORTLIB perl.cygwin_autorebase Rebase DLL after building (skip for cygport builds) v5.14.0-RC2-6-gfc6f691 skip testing cygwin utf8 readdir() with Win32 ANSI API v5.14.0-RC2-7-g3877b86 Fix test 50 on cygwin: \WINDOWS v5.14.0-RC2-10-gd22b5bd revert +x global.sym from 3691eaa79cc6a v5.15.0-579-g8375c93 Export store_cop_label for the perl compiler v5.15.3-232-g1bac5ec sv.c: S_anonymise_cv_maybe UTF8 cleanup. v5.15.7-75-g803e389 CYG17 utf8 paths v5.15.7-302-g5bc802d Revise perlcygwin.pod for cygwin-1.7 v5.15.7-303-g286f819 add Cygwin::sync_winenv [perl #110190] v5.19.8-494-g6cc44f6 avoid a "FILE" name conflict with cygwin's wchar.h v5.19.8-496-g3383030 [perl #120936] op/taint.t handling of no ipcsysv on cygwin v5.19.8-509-g288d0d9 cygwin doesn't implement $^E (except as a read of $!) v5.21.4-548-g860874c wrap the failing call_checker test in an eval and TODO it Built under cygwin Compiled at Feb 17 2015 21:43:25 @INC: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14/i686-cygwin-threads-64int /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.14/i686-cygwin-threads-64int /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.14 /usr/lib/perl5/5.14/i686-cygwin-threads-64int /usr/lib/perl5/5.14 .