Strawberry Perl for Windows - 5.16.3.1-32bit 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 5.16.3: 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.	autodie	2.16
13.	AutoLoader	5.73
14.	B-Debug	1.18
15.	B-Hooks-EndOfScope	0.12
16.	B-Hooks-OP-Check	0.19
17.	B-Lint	1.17
18.	BerkeleyDB	0.51
19.	bignum	0.32
20.	Capture-Tiny	0.21
21.	Carp-Clan	6.04
22.	CGI.pm	3.63
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-Method-Modifiers	2.03
30.	Class-Singleton	1.4
31.	Clone	0.34
32.	Clone-PP	1.02
33.	common-sense	3.6
34.	Compress-Bzip2	2.09
35.	Compress-Raw-Bzip2	2.060
36.	Compress-Raw-Lzma	2.060
37.	Compress-Raw-Zlib	2.060
38.	Compress-unLZMA	0.04
39.	constant	1.25
40.	Context-Preserve	0.01
41.	Convert-ASCII-Armour	1.4
42.	Convert-ASN1	0.26
43.	Convert-PEM	0.08
44.	CPAN-Checksums	2.08
45.	CPAN-DistnameInfo	0.12
46.	CPAN-Inject	1.14
47.	CPAN-Meta	2.120921
48.	CPAN-Meta-Check	0.004
49.	CPAN-Meta-Requirements	2.122
50.	CPAN-Meta-YAML	0.008
51.	CPAN-Mini	1.111011
52.	CPAN-SQLite	0.202
53.	CPANPLUS	0.9134
54.	CPANPLUS-Dist-Build	0.70
55.	Crypt-Blowfish	2.12	+fix for #55173
56.	Crypt-CAST5_PP	1.04
57.	Crypt-CBC	2.32
58.	Crypt-DES	2.05
59.	Crypt-DES_EDE3	0.01
60.	Crypt-DH	0.07
61.	Crypt-DSA	1.17
62.	Crypt-IDEA	1.08	+fix for #55158
63.	Crypt-OpenPGP	1.06
64.	Crypt-Primes	0.50
65.	Crypt-Random	1.25
66.	Crypt-Rijndael	1.11
67.	Crypt-RIPEMD160	0.05
68.	Crypt-RSA	1.99
69.	Crypt-SSLeay	0.64
70.	Crypt-Twofish	2.15
71.	Data-Buffer	0.04
72.	Data-Compare	1.22
73.	Data-Dump	1.21
74.	Data-Dumper	2.143
75.	Data-OptList	0.107
76.	Data-Printer	0.35
77.	Data-Random	0.08
78.	DateTime	0.78
79.	DateTime-Locale	0.45
80.	DateTime-TimeZone	1.57
81.	DB_File	1.827
82.	DBD-ADO	2.99
83.	DBD-mysql	4.022
84.	DBD-ODBC	1.43
85.	DBD-Pg	2.19.3
86.	DBD-SQLite	1.37
87.	DBI	1.623
88.	DBIx-Simple	1.35
89.	DBM-Deep	2.0008
90.	Devel-Declare	0.006011
91.	Devel-GlobalDestruction	0.09
92.	Devel-PartialDump	0.15
93.	Digest-BubbleBabble	0.02
94.	Digest-HMAC	1.03
95.	Digest-MD2	2.03
96.	Digest-MD5	2.52
97.	Digest-SHA	5.84
98.	Digest-SHA1	2.13
99.	Dist-CheckConflicts	0.02
100.	Encode	2.49
101.	Encode-Locale	1.03
102.	Env	1.04
103.	Eval-Closure	0.08
104.	Exporter	5.67
105.	ExtUtils-Depends	0.304
106.	ExtUtils-F77	1.17
107.	ExtUtils-MakeMaker	6.64
108.	ExtUtils-ParseXS	3.18
109.	FCGI	0.74
110.	File-CheckTree	4.42
111.	File-chmod	0.32
112.	File-Fetch	0.38
113.	File-Find-Rule	0.33
114.	File-HomeDir	1.00
115.	File-Listing	6.04
116.	File-Path	2.09
117.	File-pushd	1.004
118.	File-Remove	1.52
119.	File-ShareDir	1.03
120.	File-Slurp	9999.19
121.	File-Which	1.09
122.	Filter	1.45
123.	GD	2.49
124.	Hook-LexWrap	0.24
125.	HTML-Form	6.03
126.	HTML-Parser	3.69
127.	HTML-Tagset	3.20
128.	HTML-Tree	5.03
129.	HTTP-Cookies	6.01
130.	HTTP-Daemon	6.01
131.	HTTP-Date	6.02
132.	HTTP-Message	6.06
133.	HTTP-Negotiate	6.01
134.	HTTP-Server-Simple	0.44
135.	HTTP-Tiny	0.028
136.	Imager	0.94
137.	IO-Compress	2.060
138.	IO-Compress-Lzma	2.060
139.	IO-HTML	1.00
140.	IO-Interactive	0.0.6
141.	IO-Socket-INET6	2.69
142.	IO-Socket-IP	0.18
143.	IO-Socket-SSL	1.84
144.	IO-String	1.08
145.	IO-stringy	2.110
146.	IPC-Cmd	0.80
147.	IPC-Run	0.92
148.	IPC-Run3	0.045
149.	IPC-System-Simple	1.21
150.	JSON	2.53
151.	JSON-XS	2.33
152.	libwww-perl	6.04
153.	List-MoreUtils	0.33
154.	local-lib	1.008009
155.	Locale-Codes	3.25
156.	Locale-Maketext	1.23
157.	Log-Message	0.06
158.	Log-Message-Simple	0.10
159.	LWP-MediaTypes	6.02
160.	LWP-Online	1.08
161.	LWP-Protocol-https	6.03
162.	Math-BigInt-GMP	1.37
163.	Math-GMP	2.06
164.	Math-Int64	0.29
165.	Math-MPC	1.00
166.	Math-MPFR	3.17
167.	Math-Pari	2.01080605
168.	Math-Round	0.06
169.	Memoize	1.03
170.	Module-Build	0.4003
171.	Module-CoreList	2.83
172.	Module-Implementation	0.06
173.	Module-Load	0.24
174.	Module-Load-Conditional	0.54
175.	Module-Metadata	1.000011
176.	Module-Pluggable	4.7
177.	Module-Runtime	0.013
178.	Module-Signature	0.70
179.	Moo	1.000008
180.	Moose	2.0604
181.	MooseX-ClassAttribute	0.26
182.	MooseX-Declare	0.35
183.	MooseX-LazyRequire	0.09
184.	MooseX-Meta-TypeConstraint-ForceCoercion	0.01
185.	MooseX-Method-Signatures	0.44
186.	MooseX-NonMoose	0.22
187.	MooseX-Role-Parameterized	1.00
188.	MooseX-Traits	0.11
189.	MooseX-Types	0.35
190.	MooseX-Types-DateTime	0.08
191.	MooseX-Types-Structured	0.28
192.	Mozilla-CA	20130114
193.	MRO-Compat	0.12
194.	namespace-autoclean	0.13
195.	namespace-clean	0.24
196.	Net-HTTP	6.06
197.	Net-SMTP-TLS	0.12
198.	Net-SSH2	0.48
199.	Net-SSLeay	1.52
200.	Net-Telnet	3.03
201.	Number-Compare	0.03
202.	Object-Accessor	0.46
203.	Package-DeprecationManager	0.13
204.	Package-Stash	0.34
205.	Package-Stash-XS	0.26
206.	PAR	1.007
207.	PAR-Dist	0.49
208.	PAR-Dist-FromPPD	0.03
209.	PAR-Dist-InstallPPD	0.02
210.	PAR-Repository-Client	0.25
211.	PAR-Repository-Query	0.14
212.	Params-Check	0.36
213.	Params-Util	1.07
214.	Params-Validate	1.07
215.	Parse-Binary	0.11
216.	Parse-CPAN-Meta	1.4404
217.	Parse-Method-Signatures	1.003015
218.	PathTools	3.40
219.	perlfaq	5.0150042
220.	PerlIO-via-QuotedPrint	0.07
221.	pip	1.19
222.	pler	1.06
223.	Pod-Checker	1.60
224.	Pod-LaTeX	0.61
225.	Pod-Parser	1.60
226.	Pod-Perldoc	3.19
227.	Pod-Simple	3.26
228.	Pod-Usage	1.61
229.	podlators	2.5.1
230.	Portable	1.18
231.	PPI	1.215
232.	PPM	11.11_02
233.	Probe-Perl	0.01
234.	Role-Tiny	1.002005
235.	Safe	2.35
236.	Scalar-List-Utils	1.27
237.	Search-Dict	1.07
238.	SOAP-Lite	0.715
239.	Socket	2.009
240.	Socket6	0.23
241.	Sort-Naturally	1.03
242.	Sort-Versions	1.5
243.	Storable	2.39
244.	strictures	1.004004
245.	String-CRC32	1.4
246.	Sub-Exporter	0.985
247.	Sub-Exporter-Progressive	0.001008
248.	Sub-Install	0.926
249.	Sub-Name	0.05
250.	Sub-Uplevel	0.24
251.	Task-Weaken	1.04
252.	Template-Tiny	1.12
253.	Template-Toolkit	2.24
254.	Term-ANSIColor	4.02
255.	Term-ReadLine	1.10
256.	Term-ReadLine-Perl	1.0303
257.	Term-UI	0.34
258.	TermReadKey	2.30.02
259.	Test	1.26
260.	Test-CheckDeps	0.002
261.	Test-Deep	0.110
262.	Test-Differences	0.61
263.	Test-Exception	0.31
264.	Test-Fatal	0.010
265.	Test-Harness	3.26
266.	Test-Manifest	1.23
267.	Test-NoWarnings	1.04
268.	Test-Object	0.07
269.	Test-Output	1.01
270.	Test-Requires	0.06
271.	Test-Script	1.07
272.	Test-SubCalls	1.09
273.	Test-Tester	0.108
274.	Test-use-ok	0.11
275.	Test-Warn	0.24
276.	Text-Diff	1.41
277.	Text-Glob	0.09
278.	Text-ParseWords	3.28
279.	Text-Patch	1.8
280.	Text-Soundex	3.04
281.	Text-Tabs+Wrap	2012.0818
282.	Thread-Queue	3.02
283.	threads-shared	1.43
284.	Tie-EncryptedHash	1.24
285.	Time-Local	1.2300
286.	TimeDate	2.30
287.	Tree-DAG_Node	1.11
288.	Try-Tiny	0.12
289.	Unicode-Collate	0.97
290.	Unicode-Normalize	1.16
291.	URI	1.60
292.	Variable-Magic	0.52
293.	version	0.9902
294.	Win32	0.47
295.	Win32-API	0.75
296.	Win32-Console-ANSI	1.04
297.	Win32-EventLog	0.076
298.	Win32-Exe	0.17
299.	Win32-File	0.06
300.	Win32-File-Object	0.02
301.	Win32-OLE	0.1709
302.	Win32-Pipe	0.024
303.	Win32-Process	0.14
304.	Win32-TieRegistry	0.26
305.	Win32-UTCFileTime	1.55
306.	Win32-WinError	0.03
307.	Win32API-File	0.1201
308.	Win32API-Registry	0.32
309.	WWW-Mechanize	1.72
310.	WWW-RobotRules	6.02
311.	XML-LibXML	2.0014
312.	XML-LibXSLT	1.80
313.	XML-NamespaceSupport	1.11
314.	XML-Parser	2.41
315.	XML-SAX	0.99
316.	XML-SAX-Base	1.08
317.	XML-SAX-Expat	0.40
318.	XML-Simple	2.20
319.	YAML	0.84
320.	YAML-LibYAML	0.39
321.	YAML-Syck	1.24
322.	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 16 subversion 3) configuration:
   
  Platform:
    osname=MSWin32, osvers=4.0, archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
    uname='Win32 strawberry-perl 5.16.3.1 #1 Tue Mar 12 13:55:20 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=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_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 Mar 12 2013 14:01:07
  @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 (5.16.3.1-32bit) Release Notes