Strawberry Perl for Windows - 5.16.2.2-64bit 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 5.16.2: 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	1.5021	+fix for issue 132
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	0.30
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-Rijndael	1.11
64.	Crypt-RIPEMD160	0.05
65.	Crypt-SSLeay	0.64
66.	Crypt-Twofish	2.15
67.	Data-Buffer	0.04
68.	Data-Compare	1.22
69.	Data-Dump	1.21
70.	Data-Dumper	2.139
71.	Data-OptList	0.107
72.	Data-Printer	0.35
73.	Data-Random	0.08
74.	DateTime	0.78
75.	DateTime-Locale	0.45
76.	DateTime-TimeZone	1.56
77.	DB_File	1.827
78.	DBD-ADO	2.99
79.	DBD-mysql	4.022
80.	DBD-ODBC	1.41
81.	DBD-Pg	2.19.3
82.	DBD-SQLite	1.37
83.	DBI	1.623
84.	DBIx-Simple	1.35
85.	DBM-Deep	2.0008
86.	Devel-Declare	0.006011
87.	Devel-GlobalDestruction	0.09
88.	Devel-PartialDump	0.15
89.	Digest-BubbleBabble	0.02
90.	Digest-HMAC	1.03
91.	Digest-MD2	2.03
92.	Digest-MD5	2.52
93.	Digest-SHA	5.82
94.	Digest-SHA1	2.13
95.	Dist-CheckConflicts	0.02
96.	Encode	2.48
97.	Encode-Locale	1.03
98.	Eval-Closure	0.08
99.	Exporter	5.67
100.	ExtUtils-Depends	0.304
101.	ExtUtils-F77	1.17
102.	ExtUtils-MakeMaker	6.64
103.	ExtUtils-ParseXS	3.18
104.	FCGI	0.74
105.	File-CheckTree	4.42
106.	File-chmod	0.32
107.	File-Fetch	0.38
108.	File-Find-Rule	0.33
109.	File-HomeDir	1.00
110.	File-Listing	6.04
111.	File-Path	2.09
112.	File-pushd	1.003
113.	File-Remove	1.52
114.	File-ShareDir	1.03
115.	File-Slurp	9999.19
116.	File-Which	1.09
117.	Filter	1.45
118.	GD	2.46	+fix for #67990
119.	Hook-LexWrap	0.24
120.	HTML-Form	6.03
121.	HTML-Parser	3.69
122.	HTML-Tagset	3.20
123.	HTML-Tree	5.03
124.	HTTP-Cookies	6.01
125.	HTTP-Daemon	6.01
126.	HTTP-Date	6.02
127.	HTTP-Message	6.06
128.	HTTP-Negotiate	6.01
129.	HTTP-Server-Simple	0.44
130.	HTTP-Tiny	0.025
131.	Imager	0.94
132.	IO-Compress	2.060
133.	IO-Compress-Lzma	2.060
134.	IO-HTML	0.04
135.	IO-Interactive	0.0.6
136.	IO-Socket-INET6	2.69
137.	IO-Socket-IP	0.18
138.	IO-Socket-SSL	1.84
139.	IO-String	1.08
140.	IO-stringy	2.110
141.	IPC-Cmd	0.78
142.	IPC-Run	0.92
143.	IPC-Run3	0.045
144.	IPC-System-Simple	1.21
145.	JSON	2.53
146.	JSON-XS	2.33
147.	libwww-perl	6.04
148.	List-MoreUtils	0.33
149.	local-lib	1.008007
150.	Locale-Codes	3.24
151.	Locale-Maketext	1.23
152.	Log-Message	0.06
153.	Log-Message-Simple	0.10
154.	LWP-MediaTypes	6.02
155.	LWP-Online	1.08
156.	LWP-Protocol-https	6.03
157.	Math-BigInt-GMP	1.37
158.	Math-GMP	2.06
159.	Math-Int64	0.29
160.	Math-MPC	1.00
161.	Math-MPFR	3.16
162.	Math-Round	0.06
163.	Memoize	1.03
164.	Module-Build	0.4003
165.	Module-CoreList	2.82
166.	Module-Implementation	0.06
167.	Module-Load	0.24
168.	Module-Load-Conditional	0.54
169.	Module-Metadata	1.000011
170.	Module-Pluggable	4.6
171.	Module-Runtime	0.013
172.	Moo	1.000008
173.	Moose	2.0604
174.	MooseX-ClassAttribute	0.26
175.	MooseX-Declare	0.35
176.	MooseX-LazyRequire	0.09
177.	MooseX-Meta-TypeConstraint-ForceCoercion	0.01
178.	MooseX-Method-Signatures	0.44
179.	MooseX-NonMoose	0.22
180.	MooseX-Role-Parameterized	1.00
181.	MooseX-Traits	0.11
182.	MooseX-Types	0.35
183.	MooseX-Types-DateTime	0.08
184.	MooseX-Types-Structured	0.28
185.	Mozilla-CA	20130114
186.	MRO-Compat	0.12
187.	namespace-autoclean	0.13
188.	namespace-clean	0.24
189.	Net-HTTP	6.05
190.	Net-SMTP-TLS	0.12
191.	Net-SSH2	0.48
192.	Net-SSLeay	1.52
193.	Net-Telnet	3.03
194.	Number-Compare	0.03
195.	Object-Accessor	0.46
196.	Package-DeprecationManager	0.13
197.	Package-Stash	0.34
198.	Package-Stash-XS	0.26
199.	PAR	1.007
200.	PAR-Dist	0.49
201.	PAR-Dist-FromPPD	0.03
202.	PAR-Dist-InstallPPD	0.02
203.	PAR-Repository-Client	0.25
204.	PAR-Repository-Query	0.14
205.	Params-Check	0.36
206.	Params-Util	1.07
207.	Params-Validate	1.07
208.	Parse-Binary	0.11
209.	Parse-CPAN-Meta	1.4404
210.	Parse-Method-Signatures	1.003014
211.	PathTools	3.40
212.	perlfaq	5.0150041
213.	PerlIO-via-QuotedPrint	0.07
214.	pip	1.19
215.	pler	1.06
216.	Pod-Checker	1.60
217.	Pod-LaTeX	0.61
218.	Pod-Parser	1.60
219.	Pod-Perldoc	3.19
220.	Pod-Simple	3.25
221.	Pod-Usage	1.61
222.	podlators	2.5.0
223.	Portable	1.17
224.	PPI	1.215
225.	PPM	11.11_02
226.	Probe-Perl	0.01
227.	Role-Tiny	1.002005
228.	Safe	2.35
229.	Scalar-List-Utils	1.27
230.	Search-Dict	1.07
231.	SOAP-Lite	0.715
232.	Socket	2.009
233.	Socket6	0.23
234.	Sort-Naturally	1.03
235.	Sort-Versions	1.5
236.	Storable	2.39
237.	strictures	1.004004
238.	String-CRC32	1.4
239.	Sub-Exporter	0.985
240.	Sub-Exporter-Progressive	0.001008
241.	Sub-Install	0.926
242.	Sub-Name	0.05
243.	Sub-Uplevel	0.24
244.	Task-Weaken	1.04
245.	Template-Tiny	1.12
246.	Template-Toolkit	2.24
247.	Term-ANSIColor	4.02
248.	Term-ReadLine	1.10
249.	Term-ReadLine-Perl	1.0303
250.	Term-UI	0.34
251.	TermReadKey	2.30.02
252.	Test	1.26
253.	Test-CheckDeps	0.002
254.	Test-Deep	0.110
255.	Test-Differences	0.61
256.	Test-Exception	0.31
257.	Test-Fatal	0.010
258.	Test-Harness	3.26
259.	Test-Manifest	1.23
260.	Test-NoWarnings	1.04
261.	Test-Object	0.07
262.	Test-Output	1.01
263.	Test-Requires	0.06
264.	Test-Script	1.07
265.	Test-SubCalls	1.09
266.	Test-Tester	0.108
267.	Test-use-ok	0.11
268.	Test-Warn	0.24
269.	Text-Diff	1.41
270.	Text-Glob	0.09
271.	Text-Patch	1.8
272.	Text-Soundex	3.04
273.	Text-Tabs+Wrap	2012.0818
274.	Thread-Queue	3.02
275.	threads-shared	1.43
276.	Tie-EncryptedHash	1.24
277.	Time-Local	1.2300
278.	TimeDate	2.30
279.	Tree-DAG_Node	1.11
280.	Try-Tiny	0.12
281.	Unicode-Collate	0.97
282.	Unicode-Normalize	1.16
283.	URI	1.60
284.	Variable-Magic	0.52
285.	version	0.9901
286.	Win32	0.47
287.	Win32-API	0.75
288.	Win32-Console-ANSI	1.04
289.	Win32-EventLog	0.076
290.	Win32-Exe	0.17
291.	Win32-File	0.06
292.	Win32-File-Object	0.02
293.	Win32-OLE	0.1709
294.	Win32-Pipe	0.024
295.	Win32-Process	0.14
296.	Win32-TieRegistry	0.26
297.	Win32-UTCFileTime	1.55
298.	Win32-WinError	0.03
299.	Win32API-File	0.1201
300.	Win32API-Registry	0.32
301.	WWW-Mechanize	1.72
302.	WWW-RobotRules	6.02
303.	XML-LibXML	2.0014
304.	XML-LibXSLT	1.80
305.	XML-NamespaceSupport	1.11
306.	XML-Parser	2.41
307.	XML-SAX	0.99
308.	XML-SAX-Base	1.08
309.	XML-SAX-Expat	0.40
310.	XML-Simple	2.20
311.	YAML	0.84
312.	YAML-LibYAML	0.39
313.	YAML-Syck	1.22
314.	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/

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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 5.16.2.2 #1 Sat Feb 23 22:38:10 2013 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 Feb 23 2013 22:43:02
  @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 1.0.1e 11 Feb 2013
built on: Mon Feb 18 10:22:15 GMT 2013
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 (5.16.2.2-64bit) Release Notes