AFAIK, Inkscape calls an executable called perl.exe without any parameter.

regarding this, maybe you can cheat a little by writing a C-program (the only reason for this is that you compile it to an exe) which itself reads a configuration XML and passes whatever argv to the real perl interpreter (which you would have renamed realperl.exe or place your perl.exe first in the PATH) using whatever INC params specified in the XML.

If you can write a perl script to do that but make it "perl.exe" that's even better though they may do exe-file-format checks for exe file.

I can only sympathise with you as after years of using exclusively a Linux environment, a friend got me to setup her new PC and all I seemed to be spending my time on was to turn off privacy defaults exposing me to the world, unpin junk apps from menus and uninstall noisy (that's a new one) spyware showing off bog-standard aesthetics. On top of that she had to shell out about the equivalent of 4GB RAM for the pleasure of owning one of these, and pain me. It felt like I was in Shangri La for 10 years doing my origami and someone drag me back to the metropolis for an interview with the urination-district supermarket execs for a role of a night-shifter shelf-stacker, and I couldn't get a tie. If it was like I was going to school on my pants I would have known it was a bad dream. Alas... Top company in the world - that says it all.

Edit: now that I am ranting: what impressed me most and in the most negative way was when I tried to change the default internet browser. The message was to the line of "Hey Edge is really cool, can you perhaps stick a bit longer with it?"

bw, bliako