Strawberry Perl for Windows - 5.16.2.1-64bit Release Notes

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List of distributions installed on top of Perl 5.16.2: 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.	autodie	2.12
14.	AutoLoader	5.73
15.	B-Debug	1.18
16.	B-Hooks-EndOfScope	0.11
17.	B-Hooks-OP-Check	0.19
18.	BerkeleyDB	0.51
19.	bignum	0.30
20.	Capture-Tiny	0.20
21.	Carp-Clan	6.04
22.	CGI.pm	3.60
23.	Class-Accessor	0.34
24.	Class-ErrorHandler	0.01
25.	Class-Inspector	1.28
26.	Class-Load	0.20
27.	Class-Load-XS	0.06
28.	Class-Loader	2.03
29.	Class-Singleton	1.4
30.	Clone	0.31
31.	Clone-PP	1.02
32.	common-sense	3.6
33.	Compress-Bzip2	2.09
34.	Compress-Raw-Bzip2	2.055
35.	Compress-Raw-Lzma	2.055
36.	Compress-Raw-Zlib	2.056
37.	Compress-unLZMA	0.04
38.	Context-Preserve	0.01
39.	Convert-ASCII-Armour	1.4
40.	Convert-ASN1	0.26
41.	Convert-PEM	0.08
42.	CPAN-Checksums	2.08
43.	CPAN-DistnameInfo	0.12
44.	CPAN-Inject	1.14
45.	CPAN-Meta	2.120921
46.	CPAN-Meta-Check	0.004
47.	CPAN-Meta-Requirements	2.122
48.	CPAN-Meta-YAML	0.008
49.	CPAN-Mini	1.111010
50.	CPAN-SQLite	0.202
51.	CPANPLUS	0.9133
52.	CPANPLUS-Dist-Build	0.64
53.	Crypt-Blowfish	2.12	+fix for #55173
54.	Crypt-CAST5_PP	1.04
55.	Crypt-CBC	2.31
56.	Crypt-DES	2.05
57.	Crypt-DES_EDE3	0.01
58.	Crypt-DH	0.07
59.	Crypt-DSA	1.17
60.	Crypt-IDEA	1.08	+fix for #55158
61.	Crypt-Rijndael	1.11
62.	Crypt-RIPEMD160	0.05
63.	Crypt-SSLeay	0.64
64.	Crypt-Twofish	2.15
65.	Data-Buffer	0.04
66.	Data-Compare	1.22
67.	Data-Dump	1.21
68.	Data-Dumper	2.136
69.	Data-OptList	0.107
70.	Data-Printer	0.33
71.	Data-Random	0.08
72.	DateTime	0.77
73.	DateTime-Locale	0.45
74.	DateTime-TimeZone	1.52
75.	DB_File	1.827
76.	DBD-ADO	2.99
77.	DBD-mysql	4.022
78.	DBD-ODBC	1.41
79.	DBD-Pg	2.19.3
80.	DBD-SQLite	1.37
81.	DBI	1.622
82.	DBIx-Simple	1.35
83.	DBM-Deep	2.0008
84.	Devel-Declare	0.006011
85.	Devel-GlobalDestruction	0.09
86.	Devel-PartialDump	0.15
87.	Digest-BubbleBabble	0.02
88.	Digest-HMAC	1.03
89.	Digest-MD2	2.03
90.	Digest-MD5	2.52
91.	Digest-SHA	5.73
92.	Digest-SHA1	2.13
93.	Dist-CheckConflicts	0.02
94.	Encode	2.47
95.	Encode-Locale	1.03
96.	Eval-Closure	0.08
97.	Exporter	5.67
98.	ExtUtils-Depends	0.304
99.	ExtUtils-F77	1.17
100.	FCGI	0.74
101.	File-chmod	0.32
102.	File-Copy-Recursive	0.38
103.	File-Fetch	0.36
104.	File-Find-Rule	0.33
105.	File-HomeDir	1.00
106.	File-Listing	6.04
107.	File-pushd	1.002
108.	File-Remove	1.52
109.	File-ShareDir	1.03
110.	File-Slurp	9999.19
111.	File-Which	1.09
112.	Filter	1.45
113.	GD	2.46	+fix for #67990
114.	Hook-LexWrap	0.24
115.	HTML-Form	6.03
116.	HTML-Parser	3.69
117.	HTML-Tagset	3.20
118.	HTML-Tree	5.03
119.	HTTP-Cookies	6.01
120.	HTTP-Daemon	6.01
121.	HTTP-Date	6.02
122.	HTTP-Message	6.06
123.	HTTP-Negotiate	6.01
124.	HTTP-Server-Simple	0.44
125.	HTTP-Tiny	0.024
126.	Imager	0.93
127.	IO-Compress	2.055
128.	IO-Compress-Lzma	2.055
129.	IO-HTML	0.04
130.	IO-Interactive	0.0.6
131.	IO-Socket-IP	0.17
132.	IO-Socket-SSL	1.77
133.	IO-String	1.08
134.	IO-stringy	2.110
135.	IPC-Cmd	0.78
136.	IPC-Run	0.92
137.	IPC-Run3	0.045
138.	IPC-System-Simple	1.21
139.	JSON	2.53
140.	JSON-XS	2.33
141.	libwww-perl	6.04
142.	List-MoreUtils	0.33
143.	local-lib	1.008004
144.	Locale-Codes	3.23
145.	LWP-MediaTypes	6.02
146.	LWP-Online	1.08
147.	LWP-Protocol-https	6.03
148.	Math-BigInt-GMP	1.37
149.	Math-GMP	2.06
150.	Math-Int64	0.26
151.	Math-MPC	1.00
152.	Math-MPFR	3.16
153.	Math-Round	0.06
154.	Memoize	1.03
155.	Module-Build	0.4003
156.	Module-Implementation	0.06
157.	Module-Load-Conditional	0.54
158.	Module-Metadata	1.000011
159.	Module-Pluggable	4.3
160.	Module-Runtime	0.013
161.	Moose	2.0604
162.	MooseX-ClassAttribute	0.26
163.	MooseX-Declare	0.35
164.	MooseX-LazyRequire	0.08
165.	MooseX-Meta-TypeConstraint-ForceCoercion	0.01
166.	MooseX-Method-Signatures	0.43
167.	MooseX-NonMoose	0.22
168.	MooseX-Role-Parameterized	1.00
169.	MooseX-Traits	0.11
170.	MooseX-Types	0.35
171.	MooseX-Types-DateTime	0.07
172.	MooseX-Types-Structured	0.28
173.	Mozilla-CA	20120823
174.	MRO-Compat	0.11
175.	namespace-autoclean	0.13
176.	namespace-clean	0.23
177.	Net-HTTP	6.03
178.	Net-SMTP-TLS	0.12
179.	Net-SSH2	0.45
180.	Net-SSLeay	1.49
181.	Net-Telnet	3.03
182.	Number-Compare	0.03
183.	Object-Accessor	0.44
184.	Package-DeprecationManager	0.13
185.	Package-Stash	0.33
186.	Package-Stash-XS	0.25
187.	PAR	1.007
188.	PAR-Dist	0.49
189.	PAR-Dist-FromPPD	0.03
190.	PAR-Dist-InstallPPD	0.02
191.	PAR-Repository-Client	0.25
192.	PAR-Repository-Query	0.14
193.	Params-Check	0.36
194.	Params-Util	1.07
195.	Params-Validate	1.07
196.	Parse-Binary	0.11
197.	Parse-CPAN-Meta	1.4404
198.	Parse-Method-Signatures	1.003014
199.	perlfaq	5.0150041
200.	PerlIO-via-QuotedPrint	0.07
201.	pip	1.19
202.	pler	1.06
203.	Pod-Simple	3.23
204.	podlators	2.4.2
205.	Portable	1.17
206.	PPI	1.215
207.	PPM	11.11_02
208.	Probe-Perl	0.01
209.	Safe	2.33
210.	Search-Dict	1.07
211.	SOAP-Lite	0.715
212.	Socket	2.006
213.	Sort-Naturally	1.03
214.	Sort-Versions	1.5
215.	Storable	2.39
216.	String-CRC32	1.4
217.	Sub-Exporter	0.984
218.	Sub-Exporter-Progressive	0.001006
219.	Sub-Install	0.926
220.	Sub-Name	0.05
221.	Sub-Uplevel	0.24
222.	Task-Weaken	1.04
223.	Template-Tiny	1.12
224.	Template-Toolkit	2.24
225.	Term-ANSIColor	3.02
226.	Term-ReadLine	1.10
227.	Term-ReadLine-Perl	1.0303
228.	TermReadKey	2.30.02
229.	Test-CheckDeps	0.002
230.	Test-Deep	0.110
231.	Test-Differences	0.61
232.	Test-Exception	0.31
233.	Test-Fatal	0.010
234.	Test-Harness	3.25
235.	Test-Manifest	1.23
236.	Test-NoWarnings	1.04
237.	Test-Object	0.07
238.	Test-Output	1.01
239.	Test-Requires	0.06
240.	Test-Script	1.07
241.	Test-SubCalls	1.09
242.	Test-Tester	0.108
243.	Test-use-ok	0.11
244.	Test-Warn	0.24
245.	Text-Diff	1.41
246.	Text-Glob	0.09
247.	Text-Patch	1.8
248.	Text-Tabs+Wrap	2012.0818
249.	threads-shared	1.42
250.	Tie-EncryptedHash	1.24
251.	Time-Local	1.2300
252.	TimeDate	1.20
253.	Tree-DAG_Node	1.06
254.	Try-Tiny	0.11
255.	Unicode-Collate	0.90
256.	Unicode-Normalize	1.15
257.	URI	1.60
258.	Variable-Magic	0.51
259.	version	0.9901
260.	Win32	0.45
261.	Win32-API	0.73
262.	Win32-Console-ANSI	1.04
263.	Win32-EventLog	0.076
264.	Win32-Exe	0.17
265.	Win32-File	0.06
266.	Win32-File-Object	0.02
267.	Win32-OLE	0.1709
268.	Win32-Pipe	0.024
269.	Win32-Process	0.14
270.	Win32-TieRegistry	0.26
271.	Win32-UTCFileTime	1.55
272.	Win32-WinError	0.03
273.	Win32API-Registry	0.32
274.	WWW-Mechanize	1.72
275.	WWW-RobotRules	6.02
276.	XML-LibXML	2.0009
277.	XML-LibXSLT	1.78
278.	XML-NamespaceSupport	1.11
279.	XML-Parser	2.41
280.	XML-SAX	0.99
281.	XML-SAX-Base	1.08
282.	XML-SAX-Expat	0.40
283.	XML-Simple	2.20
284.	YAML	0.84
285.	YAML-LibYAML	0.38
286.	YAML-Syck	1.21
287.	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 16 subversion 2) configuration:
   
  Platform:
    osname=MSWin32, osvers=4.0, archname=MSWin32-x64-multi-thread
    uname='Win32 strawberry-perl 5.16.2.1 #1 Fri Nov  2 03:03:35 2012 x64'
    config_args='undef'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=undef
    useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define
    useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=define, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='gcc', ccflags =' -s -O2 -DWIN32 -DWIN64 -DCONSERVATIVE  -DPERL_TEXTMODE_SCRIPTS -DPERL_IMPLI
CIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -fno-strict-aliasing -mms-bitfields',
    optimize='-s -O2',
    cppflags='-DWIN32'
    ccversion='', gccversion='4.6.3', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long long', ivsize=8, 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\x86_64-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=libperl516.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: HAS_TIMES HAVE_INTERP_INTERN MULTIPLICITY
                        PERLIO_LAYERS PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV
                        PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
                        PERL_MALLOC_WRAP PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV PL_OP_SLAB_ALLOC
                        USE_64_BIT_INT USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES
                        USE_LOCALE USE_LOCALE_COLLATE USE_LOCALE_CTYPE
                        USE_LOCALE_NUMERIC USE_PERLIO USE_PERL_ATOF
  Built under MSWin32
  Compiled at Nov  2 2012 03:12:17
  @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/x86_64-w64-mingw32/4.6.3/lto-wrapper.exe
Target: x86_64-w64-mingw32
Configured with: ../../../src/gcc-4.6.3/configure --build=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --target=x86_64-w64-min
gw32 --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran --enable-libgomp --enable-lto --enable-bootstrap --enable-chec
king=release --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --disable-multilib --disable-nls --disable-win32
-registry --disable-werror --with-pkgversion='gcc-4.6.3 release with patches [build 20121012 by perl
mingw.sf.net]' --with-sysroot=/gccbuild/prefix/mingw64 --with-gmp=/gccbuild/prefix/mingw64 --with-mp
fr=/gccbuild/prefix/mingw64 --with-mpc=/gccbuild/prefix/mingw64 --with-ppl=/gccbuild/prefix/mingw64 
--with-cloog=/gccbuild/prefix/mingw64 --enable-cloog-backend=isl --with-bugurl=http://mingwfp.znix.c
om --with-gnu-ld --prefix=/gccbuild/prefix/mingw64 --with-local-prefix=/gccbuild/prefix/mingw64 --wi
th-libiconv-prefix=/gccbuild/prefix/mingw64
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: Wed Oct 17 00:20:16 GMT 2012
platform: mingw64
options:  bn(64,64) rc4(16x,int) des(idx,cisc,2,long) idea(int) blowfish(idx) 
compiler: gcc -D_WINDLL -DOPENSSL_PIC -DZLIB -DOPENSSL_THREADS -D_MT -DDSO_WIN32 -DL_ENDIAN -O3 -Wal
l -DWIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE -DOPENSSL_IA32_SSE2 -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_MONT -DOPENSSL_BN_
ASM_MONT5 -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_GF2m -DSHA1_ASM -DSHA256_ASM -DSHA512_ASM -DMD5_ASM -DAES_ASM -DVPAES_ASM
 -DBSAES_ASM -DWHIRLPOOL_ASM -DGHASH_ASM

Strawberry Perl (5.16.2.1-64bit) Release Notes