Strawberry Perl for Windows - 5.14.4.1-32bit Release Notes

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List of distributions installed on top of Perl 5.14.4: Collapse

ID	Distribution	Version	Note
1.	Algorithm-Diff	1.1902
2.	aliased	0.31
3.	Alien-Tidyp	v1.4.7
4.	App-Cpan	1.61
5.	App-cpanminus	1.6005
6.	App-local-lib-Win32Helper	0.990
7.	App-module-version	1.004
8.	AppConfig	1.66
9.	Archive-Extract	0.68
10.	Archive-Tar	1.90
11.	Archive-Zip	1.30
12.	Attribute-Handlers	0.93
13.	autodie	2.16
14.	AutoLoader	5.73
15.	autouse	1.07
16.	B-Debug	1.18
17.	B-Hooks-EndOfScope	0.12
18.	B-Hooks-OP-Check	0.19
19.	B-Lint	1.17
20.	base	2.18
21.	BerkeleyDB	0.51
22.	bignum	0.32
23.	Capture-Tiny	0.21
24.	Carp	1.26
25.	Carp-Clan	6.04
26.	CGI.pm	3.63
27.	Class-Accessor	0.34
28.	Class-ErrorHandler	0.01
29.	Class-Inspector	1.28
30.	Class-Load	0.20
31.	Class-Load-XS	0.06
32.	Class-Loader	2.03
33.	Class-Method-Modifiers	2.03
34.	Class-Singleton	1.4
35.	Clone	0.34
36.	Clone-PP	1.02
37.	common-sense	3.6
38.	Compress-Bzip2	2.09
39.	Compress-Raw-Bzip2	2.060
40.	Compress-Raw-Lzma	2.060
41.	Compress-Raw-Zlib	2.060
42.	Compress-unLZMA	0.04
43.	constant	1.25
44.	Context-Preserve	0.01
45.	Convert-ASCII-Armour	1.4
46.	Convert-ASN1	0.26
47.	Convert-PEM	0.08
48.	CPAN	1.9800
49.	CPAN-Checksums	2.08
50.	CPAN-DistnameInfo	0.12
51.	CPAN-Inject	1.14
52.	CPAN-Meta	2.120921
53.	CPAN-Meta-Check	0.004
54.	CPAN-Meta-Requirements	2.122
55.	CPAN-Meta-YAML	0.008
56.	CPAN-Mini	1.111011
57.	CPAN-SQLite	0.202
58.	CPANPLUS	0.9134
59.	CPANPLUS-Dist-Build	0.70
60.	Crypt-Blowfish	2.12	+fix for #55173
61.	Crypt-CAST5_PP	1.04
62.	Crypt-CBC	2.32
63.	Crypt-DES	2.05
64.	Crypt-DES_EDE3	0.01
65.	Crypt-DH	0.07
66.	Crypt-DSA	1.17
67.	Crypt-IDEA	1.08	+fix for #55158
68.	Crypt-OpenPGP	1.06
69.	Crypt-Primes	0.50
70.	Crypt-Random	1.25
71.	Crypt-Rijndael	1.11
72.	Crypt-RIPEMD160	0.05
73.	Crypt-RSA	1.99
74.	Crypt-SSLeay	0.64
75.	Crypt-Twofish	2.15
76.	Data-Buffer	0.04
77.	Data-Compare	1.22
78.	Data-Dump	1.21
79.	Data-Dumper	2.143
80.	Data-OptList	0.107
81.	Data-Printer	0.35
82.	Data-Random	0.08
83.	DateTime	0.78
84.	DateTime-Locale	0.45
85.	DateTime-TimeZone	1.57
86.	DB_File	1.827
87.	DBD-ADO	2.99
88.	DBD-mysql	4.022
89.	DBD-ODBC	1.43
90.	DBD-Pg	2.19.3
91.	DBD-SQLite	1.37
92.	DBI	1.623
93.	DBIx-Simple	1.35
94.	DBM-Deep	2.0008
95.	Devel-Declare	0.006011
96.	Devel-DProf	20110802.00
97.	Devel-GlobalDestruction	0.09
98.	Devel-PartialDump	0.15
99.	Devel-PPPort	3.20
100.	Digest	1.17
101.	Digest-BubbleBabble	0.02
102.	Digest-HMAC	1.03
103.	Digest-MD2	2.03
104.	Digest-MD5	2.52
105.	Digest-SHA	5.84
106.	Digest-SHA1	2.13
107.	Dist-CheckConflicts	0.02
108.	Dumpvalue	1.17
109.	Encode	2.49
110.	Encode-Locale	1.03
111.	Env	1.04
112.	Eval-Closure	0.08
113.	Exporter	5.67
114.	ExtUtils-CBuilder	0.280205
115.	ExtUtils-Depends	0.304
116.	ExtUtils-F77	1.17
117.	ExtUtils-MakeMaker	6.64
118.	ExtUtils-Manifest	1.61
119.	ExtUtils-ParseXS	3.18
120.	FCGI	0.74
121.	File-CheckTree	4.42
122.	File-chmod	0.32
123.	File-Fetch	0.38
124.	File-Find-Rule	0.33
125.	File-HomeDir	1.00
126.	File-Listing	6.04
127.	File-Path	2.09
128.	File-pushd	1.004
129.	File-Remove	1.52
130.	File-ShareDir	1.03
131.	File-Slurp	9999.19
132.	File-Which	1.09
133.	Filter	1.45
134.	Filter-Simple	0.88
135.	GD	2.49
136.	Hook-LexWrap	0.24
137.	HTML-Form	6.03
138.	HTML-Parser	3.69
139.	HTML-Tagset	3.20
140.	HTML-Tree	5.03
141.	HTTP-Cookies	6.01
142.	HTTP-Daemon	6.01
143.	HTTP-Date	6.02
144.	HTTP-Message	6.06
145.	HTTP-Negotiate	6.01
146.	HTTP-Server-Simple	0.44
147.	HTTP-Tiny	0.028
148.	Imager	0.94
149.	IO-Compress	2.060
150.	IO-Compress-Lzma	2.060
151.	IO-HTML	1.00
152.	IO-Interactive	0.0.6
153.	IO-Socket-INET6	2.69
154.	IO-Socket-IP	0.18
155.	IO-Socket-SSL	1.84
156.	IO-String	1.08
157.	IO-stringy	2.110
158.	IPC-Cmd	0.80
159.	IPC-Run	0.92
160.	IPC-Run3	0.045
161.	IPC-System-Simple	1.21
162.	JSON	2.53
163.	JSON-PP	2.27200
164.	JSON-XS	2.33
165.	libwww-perl	6.04
166.	List-MoreUtils	0.33
167.	local-lib	1.008009
168.	Locale-Codes	3.25
169.	Locale-Maketext	1.23
170.	Log-Message	0.06
171.	Log-Message-Simple	0.10
172.	LWP-MediaTypes	6.02
173.	LWP-Online	1.08
174.	LWP-Protocol-https	6.03
175.	Math-BigInt	1.997
176.	Math-BigInt-FastCalc	0.30
177.	Math-BigInt-GMP	1.37
178.	Math-BigRat	0.2602
179.	Math-Complex	1.59
180.	Math-GMP	2.06
181.	Math-Int64	0.29
182.	Math-MPC	1.00
183.	Math-MPFR	3.17
184.	Math-Pari	2.01080605
185.	Math-Round	0.06
186.	Memoize	1.03
187.	Module-Build	0.4003
188.	Module-CoreList	2.83
189.	Module-Implementation	0.06
190.	Module-Load	0.24
191.	Module-Load-Conditional	0.54
192.	Module-Loaded	0.08
193.	Module-Metadata	1.000011
194.	Module-Pluggable	4.7
195.	Module-Runtime	0.013
196.	Module-Signature	0.70
197.	Moo	1.000008
198.	Moose	2.0604
199.	MooseX-ClassAttribute	0.26
200.	MooseX-Declare	0.35
201.	MooseX-LazyRequire	0.09
202.	MooseX-Meta-TypeConstraint-ForceCoercion	0.01
203.	MooseX-Method-Signatures	0.44
204.	MooseX-NonMoose	0.22
205.	MooseX-Role-Parameterized	1.00
206.	MooseX-Traits	0.11
207.	MooseX-Types	0.35
208.	MooseX-Types-DateTime	0.08
209.	MooseX-Types-Structured	0.28
210.	Mozilla-CA	20130114
211.	MRO-Compat	0.12
212.	namespace-autoclean	0.13
213.	namespace-clean	0.24
214.	Net-HTTP	6.06
215.	Net-SMTP-TLS	0.12
216.	Net-SSH2	0.48
217.	Net-SSLeay	1.52
218.	Net-Telnet	3.03
219.	Number-Compare	0.03
220.	Object-Accessor	0.46
221.	Package-DeprecationManager	0.13
222.	Package-Stash	0.34
223.	Package-Stash-XS	0.26
224.	PAR	1.007
225.	PAR-Dist	0.49
226.	PAR-Dist-FromPPD	0.03
227.	PAR-Dist-InstallPPD	0.02
228.	PAR-Repository-Client	0.25
229.	PAR-Repository-Query	0.14
230.	Params-Check	0.36
231.	Params-Util	1.07
232.	Params-Validate	1.07
233.	Parse-Binary	0.11
234.	Parse-CPAN-Meta	1.4404
235.	Parse-Method-Signatures	1.003015
236.	PathTools	3.40
237.	PerlIO-via-QuotedPrint	0.07
238.	pip	1.19
239.	pler	1.06
240.	Pod-Checker	1.60
241.	Pod-LaTeX	0.61
242.	Pod-Parser	1.60
243.	Pod-Perldoc	3.19
244.	Pod-Simple	3.26
245.	Pod-Usage	1.61
246.	podlators	2.5.1
247.	Portable	1.18
248.	PPI	1.215
249.	PPM	11.11_02
250.	Probe-Perl	0.01
251.	Role-Tiny	1.002005
252.	Safe	2.35
253.	Scalar-List-Utils	1.27
254.	Search-Dict	1.07
255.	SelfLoader	1.20
256.	SOAP-Lite	0.715
257.	Socket	2.009
258.	Socket6	0.23
259.	Sort-Naturally	1.03
260.	Sort-Versions	1.5
261.	Storable	2.39
262.	strictures	1.004004
263.	String-CRC32	1.4
264.	Sub-Exporter	0.985
265.	Sub-Exporter-Progressive	0.001008
266.	Sub-Install	0.926
267.	Sub-Name	0.05
268.	Sub-Uplevel	0.24
269.	Task-Weaken	1.04
270.	Template-Tiny	1.12
271.	Template-Toolkit	2.24
272.	Term-ANSIColor	4.02
273.	Term-ReadLine	1.10
274.	Term-ReadLine-Perl	1.0303
275.	Term-UI	0.34
276.	TermReadKey	2.30.02
277.	Test	1.26
278.	Test-CheckDeps	0.002
279.	Test-Deep	0.110
280.	Test-Differences	0.61
281.	Test-Exception	0.31
282.	Test-Fatal	0.010
283.	Test-Harness	3.26
284.	Test-Manifest	1.23
285.	Test-NoWarnings	1.04
286.	Test-Object	0.07
287.	Test-Output	1.01
288.	Test-Requires	0.06
289.	Test-Script	1.07
290.	Test-SubCalls	1.09
291.	Test-Tester	0.108
292.	Test-use-ok	0.11
293.	Test-Warn	0.24
294.	Text-Abbrev	1.02
295.	Text-Diff	1.41
296.	Text-Glob	0.09
297.	Text-ParseWords	3.28
298.	Text-Patch	1.8
299.	Text-Soundex	3.04
300.	Text-Tabs+Wrap	2012.0818
301.	Thread-Queue	3.02
302.	threads	1.86
303.	threads-shared	1.43
304.	Tie-EncryptedHash	1.24
305.	Tie-File	0.98
306.	Time-HiRes	1.9725
307.	Time-Local	1.2300
308.	TimeDate	2.30
309.	Tree-DAG_Node	1.11
310.	Try-Tiny	0.12
311.	Unicode-Collate	0.97
312.	Unicode-Normalize	1.16
313.	URI	1.60
314.	Variable-Magic	0.52
315.	version	0.9902
316.	Win32	0.47
317.	Win32-API	0.75
318.	Win32-Console-ANSI	1.04
319.	Win32-EventLog	0.076
320.	Win32-Exe	0.17
321.	Win32-File	0.06
322.	Win32-File-Object	0.02
323.	Win32-OLE	0.1709
324.	Win32-Pipe	0.024
325.	Win32-Process	0.14
326.	Win32-TieRegistry	0.26
327.	Win32-UTCFileTime	1.55
328.	Win32-WinError	0.03
329.	Win32API-File	0.1201
330.	Win32API-Registry	0.32
331.	WWW-Mechanize	1.72
332.	WWW-RobotRules	6.02
333.	XML-LibXML	2.0014
334.	XML-LibXSLT	1.80
335.	XML-NamespaceSupport	1.11
336.	XML-Parser	2.41
337.	XML-SAX	0.99
338.	XML-SAX-Base	1.08
339.	XML-SAX-Expat	0.40
340.	XML-Simple	2.20
341.	XSLoader	0.16
342.	YAML	0.84
343.	YAML-LibYAML	0.39
344.	YAML-Syck	1.24
345.	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-5.1.1	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.	libssh2-1.4.3	http://www.libssh2.org
19.	libxml2-2.9.0	http://xmlsoft.org/
20.	libxslt-1.1.28	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-1.0.1e	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 4) configuration:
   
  Platform:
    osname=MSWin32, osvers=4.0, archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
    uname='Win32 strawberry-perl 5.14.4.1 #1 Mon Mar 11 19:56:31 2013 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 Mar 11 2013 20:02:09
  @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 1.0.1e 11 Feb 2013
built on: Sun Feb 17 22:50:46 GMT 2013
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 (5.14.4.1-32bit) Release Notes