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 installing any module, immediately failed.
This is the important part: Strawberry Perl sets ENV variables in an incompatible way to what ActivePerl wants.
11:26 <@BinGOs> they mess with how the META parsers work.
So I ran this at the command prompt:
set PERL_JSON_BACKEND= set PERL_YAML_BACKEND=
Everything started installing after clearing these variables.
Perl is better than sliced bread. Way better.
Hi, I am strawberry perl maintainer and want to ask you about the version you have tried.
Variables PERL_JSON_BACKEND and PERL_YAML_BACKEND are not set since strawberry-perl-5.16.1.1 (currently we have 5.16.3.1 and 5.18.1.1)
That was in #win32, if it's in your backlog you'll see he had Strawberry 5.12 installed. :)