Re: How do you run Perl on _your

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> d) something else..

Being my day by day on windows the only positive fact is that there is no trouble interacting with system Perl. I concord with Fletch: never run with the OS' perl install!

I use Strawberry perl portable editions, always. I have few of them in a dedicated directory:

ls | grep perl5

perl5.12-32bit
perl5.20.64bit
perl5.22.64bit
perl5.24.64bit
perl5.26.64bit
perl5.28-64bit
perl5.28.32bit
perl5.32.64bit
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ls | grep on windows? Yes I use UnxUtils with pleasure since years.

I have a not published yet program (maybe soon..) to choose the Perl incarnation to cast: it is somethign interactive so you can check various perl distros (not all above distros are loaded by my program) for some feature as, for example, Non-Capturing-Regular-Expression-Flag introduced in perl 5.22 should fail in 5.20

general>get perl_distros
perl_distros=[ARRAY with 5 elements]
        perl5.20.64bit
        perl5.22.64bit
        perl5.24.64bit
        perl5.26.64bit
        perl-5.26.64bit-PDL

general>check_perl_distro -e "print  'hello' =~ /(hi|hello)/n"
 | 1
[OK] C:\EX_D\ulisseDUE\perl5.26.64bit\perl\bin\perl.exe
 | Unknown regexp modifier "/n" at -e line 1, at end of line
 | Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
[OK] C:\EX_D\ulisseDUE\perl5.20.64bit\perl\bin\perl.exe
 | 1
[OK] C:\EX_D\ulisseDUE\perl5.22.64bit\perl\bin\perl.exe
 | 1
[OK] C:\EX_D\ulisseDUE\perl5.24.64bit\perl\bin\perl.exe
 | 1
[OK] C:\EX_D\ulisseDUE\perl5.26.64bit\perl\bin\perl.exe
 | 1
[OK] C:\EX_D\ulisseDUE\perl-5.26.64bit-PDL\perl\bin\perl.exe
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Re^2: How do you run Perl on _your_ system? by silent11 (Vicar) on Jun 15, 2022 at 15:37 UTC
Thanks. I use Windows at work, and had a similar set up with multiple versions of standalone Strawberry. Both Windows and Perl on Windows have grown on me other the years. Anyway, I sort of rolled my own simple version of perlbrew using a bat script to modify a symlink (Junctions) pointing to the "active" version of Perl. like UnxUtils, gnuwin32 has made working on Windows much more enjoyable. I dabbled with the linux subsystem, but it's too inter-connected to windows binaries for me.	[reply]
Re^3: How do you run Perl on _your_ system? by stevieb (Canon) on Jun 15, 2022 at 15:46 UTC
Anyway, I sort of rolled my own simple version of perlbrew using a bat script to modify a symlink (Junctions) pointing to the "active" version of Perl. If that's the case, I'm sure you'll find great value in berrybrew. Its purpose is to allow you to manage multiple versions of Perl, and even has a handy little UI that runs in the system tray to allow you to switch between them, install new versions etc.	[reply]
Re^4: How do you run Perl on _your_ system? by clueless newbie (Curate) on Jun 15, 2022 at 16:42 UTC
Take praise from a clueless newbie for what it is worth! "berrybrew" is wonderful - only wish for Strawberry Perl 5.34 to be released.	[reply]
Re^5: How do you run Perl on _your_ system? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jun 16, 2022 at 13:46 UTC
Re^3: How do you run Perl on _your_ system? by jdporter (Chancellor) on Jun 15, 2022 at 17:57 UTC
bat script to modify a symlink (Junctions) I've always wondered how those work. Are they easy to work with? Can you post your script? Thanks...	[reply]
Re^4: How do you run Perl on _your_ system? by silent11 (Vicar) on Oct 21, 2022 at 21:06 UTC
Unfortunately I just lost access to that machine. Sorry.	[reply]

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