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All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report

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  • I keep meaning to contribute the following .bat file which sets up the environment for a console dynamically. This first snippet can be called from any .cmd file or from within cmd.exe:

    @echo off
    SET BASE=%~dp0
    path %BASE%\perl\bin;%BASE%\mingw\bin;%BASE%\dmake\bin;%PATH%

    Another thing - you provide only a .exe file - I found it very convenient to also have a .zip file which does not try installation into write-protected directories like anywhere on c:\ - if it's not too much hassle, it would be great if y

    • Unfortunately, for Perl 5.8.8 the installation path is hard-coded into Perl, so it has to be done that way.

      Perl 5.10.0 changes that a bit, and although the initial release of Strawberry 5.10.0 will be hard-coded as well, we'll look at making it movable after release.

      HOWEVER, one advantage of moving beyond a config-file driven methodology is that it opens the door to a "Perl from Scratch" idea, where if you want a Perl that installs to a certain place you might, for example do the following.

      perldist --installdir D:\perl Perl::Dist::Strawberry
      perldist would grind away silently for about an hour, and spit out an installer for Strawberry tailored to install to the directory you want.

      • "Hardcoded into Perl" on Win32 just means patching Config.pm respectively Config_heavy.pl, so the "it has to be done that way" can be remedied by a oneliner to change the installation path. @INC is built dynamically on Win32 anyway, so if you're not using CPAN or the toolchain, you don't even need to mess with Config.pm, Config_heavy.pl or CPAN/Config.pm at all.

        "%~dp0\perl\bin\perl.exe" -pi.bak -e "BEGIN{$target=shift} s/c:\\strawberry\\/$target/gi" "%~dp0" lib/Config_heavy.pl lib/Config.pm lib/CPAN/Confi

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