Strawberry Perl for Windows - 5.14.3.1-32bit Release Notes

Check out what is new, what known issues there are, and frequently asked questions about this version of Strawberry Perl. As always, you're encouraged to tell us what you think.

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List of distributions installed on top of Perl 5.14.3: Collapse

ID	Distribution	Version	Note
1.	Algorithm-Diff	1.1902
2.	aliased	0.30
3.	Alien-Tidyp	v1.4.7
4.	Any-Moose	0.18
5.	App-Cpan	1.5902
6.	App-cpanminus	1.5018	+fix for issue 132
7.	App-local-lib-Win32Helper	0.990
8.	App-module-version	1.004
9.	AppConfig	1.66
10.	Archive-Extract	0.60
11.	Archive-Tar	1.90
12.	Archive-Zip	1.30
13.	Attribute-Handlers	0.93
14.	autodie	2.12
15.	AutoLoader	5.72
16.	autouse	1.07
17.	B-Debug	1.18
18.	B-Hooks-EndOfScope	0.11
19.	B-Hooks-OP-Check	0.19
20.	B-Lint	1.14
21.	base	2.18
22.	BerkeleyDB	0.51
23.	bignum	0.30
24.	Capture-Tiny	0.20
25.	Carp	1.26
26.	Carp-Clan	6.04
27.	CGI.pm	3.60
28.	Class-Accessor	0.34
29.	Class-ErrorHandler	0.01
30.	Class-Inspector	1.27
31.	Class-Load	0.20
32.	Class-Load-XS	0.06
33.	Class-Loader	2.03
34.	Class-Singleton	1.4
35.	Clone	0.31
36.	Clone-PP	1.02
37.	common-sense	3.6
38.	Compress-Bzip2	2.09
39.	Compress-Raw-Bzip2	2.055
40.	Compress-Raw-Lzma	2.055
41.	Compress-Raw-Zlib	2.056
42.	Compress-unLZMA	0.04
43.	Context-Preserve	0.01
44.	Convert-ASCII-Armour	1.4
45.	Convert-ASN1	0.26
46.	Convert-PEM	0.08
47.	CPAN	1.9800
48.	CPAN-Checksums	2.08
49.	CPAN-DistnameInfo	0.12
50.	CPAN-Inject	1.14
51.	CPAN-Meta	2.120921
52.	CPAN-Meta-Check	0.004
53.	CPAN-Meta-Requirements	2.122
54.	CPAN-Meta-YAML	0.008
55.	CPAN-Mini	1.111009
56.	CPAN-SQLite	0.202
57.	CPANPLUS	0.9133
58.	CPANPLUS-Dist-Build	0.62
59.	Crypt-Blowfish	2.12	+fix for #55173
60.	Crypt-CAST5_PP	1.04
61.	Crypt-CBC	2.30
62.	Crypt-DES	2.05
63.	Crypt-DES_EDE3	0.01
64.	Crypt-DH	0.07
65.	Crypt-DSA	1.17
66.	Crypt-IDEA	1.08	+fix for #55158
67.	Crypt-OpenPGP	1.06
68.	Crypt-Primes	0.50
69.	Crypt-Random	1.25
70.	Crypt-Rijndael	1.11
71.	Crypt-RIPEMD160	0.05
72.	Crypt-RSA	1.99
73.	Crypt-SSLeay	0.64
74.	Crypt-Twofish	2.15
75.	Data-Buffer	0.04
76.	Data-Compare	1.22
77.	Data-Dump	1.21
78.	Data-Dumper	2.136
79.	Data-OptList	0.107
80.	Data-Printer	0.33
81.	Data-Random	0.08
82.	DateTime	0.77
83.	DateTime-Locale	0.45
84.	DateTime-TimeZone	1.50
85.	DB_File	1.827
86.	DBD-ADO	2.99
87.	DBD-mysql	4.022
88.	DBD-ODBC	1.39
89.	DBD-Pg	2.19.3
90.	DBD-SQLite	1.37
91.	DBI	1.622
92.	DBIx-Simple	1.35
93.	DBM-Deep	2.0008
94.	Devel-Declare	0.006011
95.	Devel-DProf	20110802.00
96.	Devel-GlobalDestruction	0.09
97.	Devel-PartialDump	0.15
98.	Devel-PPPort	3.20
99.	Digest	1.17
100.	Digest-BubbleBabble	0.02
101.	Digest-HMAC	1.03
102.	Digest-MD2	2.03
103.	Digest-MD5	2.52
104.	Digest-SHA	5.72
105.	Digest-SHA1	2.13
106.	Dist-CheckConflicts	0.02
107.	Dumpvalue	1.17
108.	Encode	2.47
109.	Encode-Locale	1.03
110.	Env	1.03
111.	Eval-Closure	0.08
112.	Exporter	5.67
113.	ExtUtils-CBuilder	0.280205
114.	ExtUtils-Depends	0.304
115.	ExtUtils-F77	1.17
116.	ExtUtils-MakeMaker	6.62
117.	ExtUtils-Manifest	1.61
118.	ExtUtils-ParseXS	3.15
119.	FCGI	0.74
120.	File-chmod	0.32
121.	File-Fetch	0.36
122.	File-Find-Rule	0.33
123.	File-HomeDir	0.99
124.	File-Listing	6.04
125.	File-pushd	1.002
126.	File-Remove	1.52
127.	File-ShareDir	1.03
128.	File-Slurp	9999.19
129.	File-Which	1.09
130.	Filter	1.45
131.	Filter-Simple	0.88
132.	GD	2.46	+fix for #67990
133.	Hook-LexWrap	0.24
134.	HTML-Form	6.03
135.	HTML-Parser	3.69
136.	HTML-Tagset	3.20
137.	HTML-Tree	5.03
138.	HTTP-Cookies	6.01
139.	HTTP-Daemon	6.01
140.	HTTP-Date	6.02
141.	HTTP-Message	6.04
142.	HTTP-Negotiate	6.01
143.	HTTP-Server-Simple	0.44
144.	HTTP-Tiny	0.024
145.	Imager	0.93
146.	IO-Compress	2.055
147.	IO-Compress-Lzma	2.055
148.	IO-HTML	0.04
149.	IO-Interactive	0.0.6
150.	IO-Socket-IP	0.17
151.	IO-Socket-SSL	1.77
152.	IO-String	1.08
153.	IO-stringy	2.110
154.	IPC-Cmd	0.78
155.	IPC-Run	0.92
156.	IPC-Run3	0.045
157.	IPC-System-Simple	1.21
158.	JSON	2.53
159.	JSON-PP	2.27200
160.	JSON-XS	2.33
161.	libwww-perl	6.04
162.	List-MoreUtils	0.33
163.	local-lib	1.008004
164.	Locale-Codes	3.23
165.	Locale-Maketext	1.22
166.	LWP-MediaTypes	6.02
167.	LWP-Online	1.08
168.	LWP-Protocol-https	6.03
169.	Math-BigInt	1.997
170.	Math-BigInt-FastCalc	0.30
171.	Math-BigInt-GMP	1.37
172.	Math-BigRat	0.2602
173.	Math-Complex	1.59
174.	Math-GMP	2.06
175.	Math-MPC	1.00
176.	Math-MPFR	3.16
177.	Math-Pari	2.01080605
178.	Math-Round	0.06
179.	Memoize	1.03
180.	Module-Build	0.4003
181.	Module-CoreList	2.74
182.	Module-Implementation	0.06
183.	Module-Load	0.22
184.	Module-Load-Conditional	0.54
185.	Module-Loaded	0.08
186.	Module-Metadata	1.000011
187.	Module-Pluggable	4.3
188.	Module-Runtime	0.013
189.	Module-Signature	0.68
190.	Moose	2.0604
191.	MooseX-ClassAttribute	0.26
192.	MooseX-Declare	0.35
193.	MooseX-LazyRequire	0.08
194.	MooseX-Meta-TypeConstraint-ForceCoercion	0.01
195.	MooseX-Method-Signatures	0.43
196.	MooseX-NonMoose	0.22
197.	MooseX-Role-Parameterized	1.00
198.	MooseX-Traits	0.11
199.	MooseX-Types	0.35
200.	MooseX-Types-DateTime	0.07
201.	MooseX-Types-Structured	0.28
202.	Mozilla-CA	20120823
203.	MRO-Compat	0.11
204.	namespace-autoclean	0.13
205.	namespace-clean	0.23
206.	Net-HTTP	6.03
207.	Net-SMTP-TLS	0.12
208.	Net-SSH2	0.45
209.	Net-SSLeay	1.49
210.	Net-Telnet	3.03
211.	Number-Compare	0.03
212.	Object-Accessor	0.44
213.	Package-DeprecationManager	0.13
214.	Package-Stash	0.33
215.	Package-Stash-XS	0.25
216.	PAR	1.006
217.	PAR-Dist	0.49
218.	PAR-Dist-FromPPD	0.03
219.	PAR-Dist-InstallPPD	0.02
220.	PAR-Repository-Client	0.25
221.	PAR-Repository-Query	0.14
222.	Params-Check	0.36
223.	Params-Util	1.07
224.	Params-Validate	1.06
225.	Parse-Binary	0.11
226.	Parse-CPAN-Meta	1.4404
227.	Parse-Method-Signatures	1.003014
228.	PerlIO-via-QuotedPrint	0.07
229.	pip	1.19
230.	pler	1.06
231.	Pod-LaTeX	0.60
232.	Pod-Parser	1.51
233.	Pod-Perldoc	3.17
234.	Pod-Simple	3.23
235.	podlators	2.4.2
236.	Portable	1.17
237.	PPI	1.215
238.	PPM	11.11_02
239.	Probe-Perl	0.01
240.	Safe	2.33
241.	Scalar-List-Utils	1.25
242.	Search-Dict	1.07
243.	SelfLoader	1.20
244.	SOAP-Lite	0.715
245.	Socket	2.006
246.	Sort-Naturally	1.03
247.	Sort-Versions	1.5
248.	Storable	2.39
249.	String-CRC32	1.4
250.	Sub-Exporter	0.984
251.	Sub-Exporter-Progressive	0.001006
252.	Sub-Install	0.926
253.	Sub-Name	0.05
254.	Sub-Uplevel	0.24
255.	Task-Weaken	1.04
256.	Template-Tiny	1.12
257.	Template-Toolkit	2.24
258.	Term-ANSIColor	3.02
259.	Term-ReadLine	1.10
260.	Term-ReadLine-Perl	1.0303
261.	Term-UI	0.30
262.	TermReadKey	2.30.02
263.	Test-CheckDeps	0.002
264.	Test-Deep	0.110
265.	Test-Differences	0.61
266.	Test-Exception	0.31
267.	Test-Fatal	0.010
268.	Test-Harness	3.25
269.	Test-Manifest	1.23
270.	Test-NoWarnings	1.04
271.	Test-Object	0.07
272.	Test-Output	1.01
273.	Test-Requires	0.06
274.	Test-Script	1.07
275.	Test-SubCalls	1.09
276.	Test-Tester	0.108
277.	Test-use-ok	0.11
278.	Test-Warn	0.24
279.	Text-Abbrev	1.02
280.	Text-Diff	1.41
281.	Text-Glob	0.09
282.	Text-Patch	1.8
283.	Text-Tabs+Wrap	2012.0818
284.	threads	1.86
285.	threads-shared	1.42
286.	Tie-EncryptedHash	1.24
287.	Tie-File	0.98
288.	Time-HiRes	1.9725
289.	Time-Local	1.2300
290.	TimeDate	1.20
291.	Tree-DAG_Node	1.06
292.	Try-Tiny	0.11
293.	Unicode-Collate	0.90
294.	Unicode-Normalize	1.15
295.	URI	1.60
296.	Variable-Magic	0.51
297.	version	0.9901
298.	Win32	0.45
299.	Win32-API	0.68	+fix related to x64
300.	Win32-Console-ANSI	1.04
301.	Win32-EventLog	0.076
302.	Win32-Exe	0.17
303.	Win32-File	0.06
304.	Win32-File-Object	0.02
305.	Win32-OLE	0.1709
306.	Win32-Pipe	0.024
307.	Win32-Process	0.14
308.	Win32-TieRegistry	0.26
309.	Win32-UTCFileTime	1.55
310.	Win32-WinError	0.03
311.	Win32API-File	0.1200
312.	Win32API-Registry	0.32
313.	WWW-Mechanize	1.72
314.	WWW-RobotRules	6.02
315.	XML-LibXML	2.0006
316.	XML-LibXSLT	1.78
317.	XML-NamespaceSupport	1.11
318.	XML-Parser	2.41
319.	XML-SAX	0.99
320.	XML-SAX-Base	1.08
321.	XML-SAX-Expat	0.40
322.	XML-Simple	2.20
323.	XSLoader	0.16
324.	YAML	0.84
325.	YAML-LibYAML	0.38
326.	YAML-Syck	1.21
327.	YAML-Tiny	1.51

List of external tools and libraries included in Strawberry Perl: Collapse

ID	Package	Homepage	Note
1.	binutils-2.22.52	http://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/
2.	db-5.3.21	http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/berkeleydb/downloads/index.html
3.	dmake-SVN20091127	http://tools.openoffice.org/dmake/index.html
4.	expat-2.1.0	http://expat.sourceforge.net/
5.	freeglut-2.8.0	http://freeglut.sourceforge.net/
6.	freetype-2.4.10	http://www.freetype.org/
7.	gcc-4.6.3	http://gcc.gnu.org/
8.	gd-2.0.35	http://www.libgd.org/	statically linked with giflib-4.2.0
9.	gdbm-1.8.3	http://www.gnu.org/software/gdbm/
10.	gendef-rev4724	http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/
11.	gfortran-4.6.3	http://gcc.gnu.org/
12.	giflib-5.0.1	http://giflib.sourceforge.net/
13.	gmp-5.0.5	http://gmplib.org/
14.	jpeg-8d	http://www.ijg.org/
15.	libXpm-3.5.10	http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xlibs
16.	libiconv-1.14	http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/
17.	libpng-1.5.13	http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
18.	libssh2-1.4.2	http://www.libssh2.org
19.	libxml2-2.9.0	http://xmlsoft.org/
20.	libxslt-1.1.27	http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/
21.	make-3.82	http://www.gnu.org/software/make/
22.	mingw-w64-crt_2.x_r5421	http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/
23.	mpc-1.0.1	http://www.multiprecision.org/
24.	mpfr-3.1.1	http://www.mpfr.org/
25.	mysql-5.1.44	http://www.mysql.com/
26.	openssl-1.0.1c	http://www.openssl.org/
27.	patch-2.5.9-7	http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/patch.htm
28.	pexports-0.44	http://www.emmestech.com/software/pexports-0.43/download_pexports.html
29.	postgresql-9.2.1	http://www.postgresql.org/
30.	pthreads-win32-2.9.0	http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/
31.	t1lib-5.1.2	http://www.t1lib.org/
32.	tiff-4.0.3	http://remotesensing.org/libtiff/
33.	xz-5.0.4	http://tukaani.org/xz/
34.	zlib-1.2.7	http://www.zlib.net/

Version details: Collapse

Perl version details:

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 14 subversion 3) configuration:
   
  Platform:
    osname=MSWin32, osvers=4.0, archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
    uname='Win32 strawberry-perl 5.14.3.1 #1 Wed Oct 17 22:51:55 2012 i386'
    config_args='undef'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=undef
    useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define
    useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='gcc', ccflags =' -s -O2 -DWIN32  -DPERL_TEXTMODE_SCRIPTS -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPL
ICIT_SYS -fno-strict-aliasing -mms-bitfields',
    optimize='-s -O2',
    cppflags='-DWIN32'
    ccversion='', gccversion='4.6.3', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    d_longlong=undef, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='long long', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='g++.exe', ldflags ='-s -L"C:\strawberry\perl\lib\CORE" -L"C:\strawberry\c\lib"'
    libpth=C:\strawberry\c\lib C:\strawberry\c\i686-w64-mingw32\lib
    libs=-lmoldname -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwinspool -lcomdlg32 -ladvapi32 -lshell32 -lole32 -
loleaut32 -lnetapi32 -luuid -lws2_32 -lmpr -lwinmm -lversion -lodbc32 -lodbccp32 -lcomctl32
    perllibs=-lmoldname -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwinspool -lcomdlg32 -ladvapi32 -lshell32 -lole
32 -loleaut32 -lnetapi32 -luuid -lws2_32 -lmpr -lwinmm -lversion -lodbc32 -lodbccp32 -lcomctl32
    libc=, so=dll, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl514.a
    gnulibc_version=''
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_win32.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-mdll -s -L"C:\strawberry\perl\lib\CORE" -L"C:\strawberry\c\lib"'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): 
  Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV
                        PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
                        PERL_MALLOC_WRAP PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV PL_OP_SLAB_ALLOC
                        USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO
                        USE_PERL_ATOF
  Built under MSWin32
  Compiled at Oct 17 2012 23:05:06
  @INC:
    C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib
    C:/strawberry/perl/vendor/lib
    C:/strawberry/perl/lib
    .

Gcc version details:

Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=C:\strawberry\c\bin\gcc.exe
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=c:/strawberry/c/bin/../libexec/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/4.6.3/lto-wrapper.exe
Target: i686-w64-mingw32
Configured with: ../../../src/gcc-4.6.3/configure --build=i686-w64-mingw32 --target=i686-w64-mingw32
 --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran --enable-libgomp --enable-lto --enable-bootstrap --enable-checking
=release --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --disable-multilib --disable-nls --disable-win32-reg
istry --disable-werror --with-pkgversion='gcc-4.6.3 release with patches [build 20121012 by perlming
w.sf.net]' --with-sysroot=/gccbuild/prefix/mingw32 --with-gmp=/gccbuild/prefix/mingw32 --with-mpfr=/
gccbuild/prefix/mingw32 --with-mpc=/gccbuild/prefix/mingw32 --with-ppl=/gccbuild/prefix/mingw32 --wi
th-cloog=/gccbuild/prefix/mingw32 --enable-cloog-backend=isl --with-bugurl=http://mingwfp.znix.com -
-with-gnu-ld --prefix=/gccbuild/prefix/mingw32 --with-local-prefix=/gccbuild/prefix/mingw32 --with-l
ibiconv-prefix=/gccbuild/prefix/mingw32
Thread model: win32
gcc version 4.6.3 (gcc-4.6.3 release with patches [build 20121012 by perlmingw.sf.net])

OpenSSL version details:

OpenSSL 1.0.1c 10 May 2012
built on: Tue Oct 16 18:48:25 GMT 2012
platform: mingw
options:  bn(64,32) rc4(8x,mmx) des(ptr,risc1,16,long) idea(int) blowfish(idx) 
compiler: gcc -D_WINDLL -DOPENSSL_USE_APPLINK -DOPENSSL_PIC -DZLIB -DOPENSSL_THREADS -D_MT -DDSO_WIN
32 -DL_ENDIAN -DWIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN -fomit-frame-pointer -O3 -march=i486 -Wall -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_PART
_WORDS -DOPENSSL_IA32_SSE2 -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_MONT -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_GF2m -DSHA1_ASM -DSHA256_ASM -DSHA
512_ASM -DMD5_ASM -DRMD160_ASM -DAES_ASM -DVPAES_ASM -DWHIRLPOOL_ASM -DGHASH_ASM

Strawberry Perl (5.14.3.1-32bit) Release Notes