Strawberry Perl uninstall / Active Perl install Issues on Windows
I have had a little problem getting a working Perl on Windows over the past few days. I was having a lot of trouble somehow getting a working dmake and mingw to compile code, among other things.
Here's what happened in my latest attempt, for your benefit:
- Created a clean Amazon EC2 Windows 2008 server.
- Installed Strawberry Perl 5.12. Had issues compiling modules with cpan. Uninstalled Strawberry Perl.
- Installed ActivePerl 5.16.3. Ran cpan, dmake and mingw downloaded and installed properly. Rebooted so %PATH% would be updated.
- Tried installi…