Strawberry Perl for Windows - 5.18.0.1-32bit Release Notes

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List of distributions installed on top of Perl 5.18.0: Collapse

ID	Distribution	Version	Note
1.	Algorithm-Diff	1.1902
2.	aliased	0.31
3.	Alien-Tidyp	v1.4.7
4.	Alt-Crypt-RSA-BigInt	0.05
5.	App-cpanminus	1.6914
6.	App-local-lib-Win32Helper	0.990
7.	App-module-version	1.004
8.	AppConfig	1.66
9.	Archive-Zip	1.30
10.	autodie	2.19
11.	B-Hooks-EndOfScope	0.12
12.	B-Hooks-OP-Check	0.19
13.	BerkeleyDB	0.51
14.	Bytes-Random-Secure	0.25
15.	Capture-Tiny	0.22
16.	Carp-Clan	6.04
17.	Class-Accessor	0.34
18.	Class-ErrorHandler	0.02
19.	Class-Inspector	1.28
20.	Class-Load	0.20
21.	Class-Load-XS	0.06
22.	Class-Loader	2.03
23.	Class-Method-Modifiers	2.04
24.	Class-Singleton	1.4
25.	Clone	0.34
26.	Clone-PP	1.02
27.	common-sense	3.6
28.	Compress-Bzip2	2.15
29.	Compress-Raw-Lzma	2.060
30.	Compress-unLZMA	0.04
31.	Context-Preserve	0.01
32.	Convert-ASCII-Armour	1.4
33.	Convert-ASN1	0.26
34.	Convert-PEM	0.08
35.	CPAN-Checksums	2.08
36.	CPAN-DistnameInfo	0.12
37.	CPAN-Inject	1.14
38.	CPAN-Meta	2.130880
39.	CPAN-Meta-Check	0.005
40.	CPAN-Mini	1.111013
41.	CPAN-SQLite	0.202
42.	CPANPLUS	0.9136
43.	Crypt-Blowfish	2.12	+fix for #55173 #83924
44.	Crypt-CBC	2.32
45.	Crypt-DES	2.05	+fix for #82943
46.	Crypt-DES_EDE3	0.01
47.	Crypt-DH	0.07
48.	Crypt-IDEA	1.08	+fix for #55158 #82010
49.	Crypt-OpenSSL-AES	0.02	+fix for #77605
50.	Crypt-OpenSSL-Bignum	0.04	+fix for #84369
51.	Crypt-OpenSSL-DSA	0.14	+fix for #84367
52.	Crypt-OpenSSL-Random	0.04	+fix for #56455
53.	Crypt-OpenSSL-RSA	0.28
54.	Crypt-Random-Seed	0.03
55.	Crypt-Random-TESHA2	0.01
56.	Crypt-SSLeay	0.64
57.	Crypt-Twofish	2.15	+fix for #82012
58.	Data-Buffer	0.04
59.	Data-Compare	1.22
60.	Data-Dump	1.22
61.	Data-OptList	0.107
62.	Data-Printer	0.35
63.	DateTime	1.03
64.	DateTime-Locale	0.45
65.	DateTime-TimeZone	1.59
66.	DB_File	1.828
67.	DBD-ADO	2.99
68.	DBD-mysql	4.023
69.	DBD-ODBC	1.43
70.	DBD-Pg	2.19.3
71.	DBD-SQLite	1.37
72.	DBI	1.625
73.	DBIx-Simple	1.35
74.	DBM-Deep	2.0008
75.	Devel-Declare	0.006011
76.	Devel-GlobalDestruction	0.11
77.	Devel-PartialDump	0.15
78.	Digest-BubbleBabble	0.02
79.	Digest-HMAC	1.03
80.	Digest-MD2	2.03
81.	Digest-SHA1	2.13
82.	Dist-CheckConflicts	0.02
83.	Encode	2.51
84.	Encode-Locale	1.03
85.	Eval-Closure	0.08
86.	ExtUtils-Depends	0.304
87.	ExtUtils-F77	1.17
88.	FCGI	0.74
89.	File-chmod	0.32
90.	File-Copy-Recursive	0.38
91.	File-Fetch	0.42
92.	File-Find-Rule	0.33
93.	File-HomeDir	1.00
94.	File-Listing	6.04
95.	File-pushd	1.005
96.	File-Remove	1.52
97.	File-ShareDir	1.03
98.	File-Slurp	9999.19
99.	File-Temp	0.2301
100.	File-Which	1.09
101.	Filter	1.49
102.	GD	2.49
103.	Hook-LexWrap	0.24
104.	HTML-Form	6.03
105.	HTML-Parser	3.71
106.	HTML-Tagset	3.20
107.	HTML-Tree	5.03
108.	HTTP-Cookies	6.01
109.	HTTP-Daemon	6.01
110.	HTTP-Date	6.02
111.	HTTP-Message	6.06
112.	HTTP-Negotiate	6.01
113.	HTTP-Server-Simple	0.44
114.	HTTP-Tiny	0.029
115.	Imager	0.95
116.	IO-Compress-Lzma	2.060
117.	IO-HTML	1.00
118.	IO-Interactive	0.0.6
119.	IO-Socket-INET6	2.69
120.	IO-Socket-IP	0.21
121.	IO-Socket-SSL	1.88
122.	IO-String	1.08
123.	IO-stringy	2.110
124.	IPC-Run	0.92
125.	IPC-Run3	0.045
126.	IPC-System-Simple	1.21
127.	JSON	2.57
128.	JSON-XS	2.33
129.	libwww-perl	6.05
130.	List-MoreUtils	0.33
131.	local-lib	1.008009
132.	Log-Message	0.08
133.	LWP-MediaTypes	6.02
134.	LWP-Online	1.08
135.	LWP-Protocol-https	6.04
136.	Math-BigInt-GMP	1.37
137.	Math-GMP	2.06
138.	Math-Int64	0.29
139.	Math-MPC	1.00
140.	Math-MPFR	3.18
141.	Math-Pari	2.01080605
142.	Math-Prime-Util	0.26
143.	Math-Prime-Util-GMP	0.10
144.	Math-Random-ISAAC	1.004
145.	Math-Round	0.06
146.	Module-Build	0.4005
147.	Module-Implementation	0.06
148.	Module-Metadata	1.000014
149.	Module-Runtime	0.013
150.	Moo	1.002000
151.	Moose	2.0802
152.	MooseX-ClassAttribute	0.27
153.	MooseX-Declare	0.35
154.	MooseX-LazyRequire	0.10
155.	MooseX-Meta-TypeConstraint-ForceCoercion	0.01
156.	MooseX-Method-Signatures	0.44
157.	MooseX-NonMoose	0.22
158.	MooseX-Role-Parameterized	1.00
159.	MooseX-Traits	0.11
160.	MooseX-Types	0.35
161.	MooseX-Types-DateTime	0.08
162.	MooseX-Types-Structured	0.28
163.	Mozilla-CA	20130114
164.	MRO-Compat	0.12
165.	namespace-autoclean	0.13
166.	namespace-clean	0.24
167.	Net-HTTP	6.06
168.	Net-SMTP-TLS	0.12
169.	Net-SSH2	0.48
170.	Net-SSLeay	1.54
171.	Net-Telnet	3.04
172.	Number-Compare	0.03
173.	Package-DeprecationManager	0.13
174.	Package-Stash	0.34
175.	Package-Stash-XS	0.26
176.	PAR	1.007
177.	PAR-Dist	0.49
178.	PAR-Dist-FromPPD	0.03
179.	PAR-Dist-InstallPPD	0.02
180.	PAR-Repository-Client	0.25
181.	PAR-Repository-Query	0.14
182.	Params-Util	1.07
183.	Params-Validate	1.07
184.	Parse-Binary	0.11
185.	Parse-Method-Signatures	1.003015
186.	perlfaq	5.0150043
187.	pip	1.19
188.	pler	1.06
189.	Pod-Perldoc	3.20
190.	Portable	1.18
191.	PPI	1.215
192.	PPM	11.11_02
193.	Probe-Perl	0.01
194.	Role-Tiny	1.002005
195.	SOAP-Lite	0.716
196.	Socket6	0.23
197.	Sort-Naturally	1.03
198.	Sort-Versions	1.5
199.	strictures	1.004004
200.	String-CRC32	1.4
201.	Sub-Exporter	0.985
202.	Sub-Exporter-Progressive	0.001010
203.	Sub-Install	0.926
204.	Sub-Name	0.05
205.	Sub-Uplevel	0.24
206.	Task-Weaken	1.04
207.	Template-Tiny	1.12
208.	Template-Toolkit	2.24
209.	Term-ReadLine-Perl	1.0303
210.	TermReadKey	2.30.02
211.	Test-CheckDeps	0.002
212.	Test-Deep	0.110
213.	Test-Differences	0.61
214.	Test-Exception	0.32
215.	Test-Fatal	0.010
216.	Test-Harness	3.28
217.	Test-NoWarnings	1.04
218.	Test-Object	0.07
219.	Test-Output	1.01
220.	Test-Requires	0.06
221.	Test-Script	1.07
222.	Test-SubCalls	1.09
223.	Test-Tester	0.108
224.	Test-use-ok	0.11
225.	Test-Warn	0.24
226.	Text-Diff	1.41
227.	Text-Glob	0.09
228.	Text-ParseWords	3.29
229.	Text-Patch	1.8
230.	Text-Tabs+Wrap	2013.0426
231.	Tie-EncryptedHash	1.24
232.	TimeDate	2.30
233.	Tree-DAG_Node	1.11
234.	Try-Tiny	0.12
235.	URI	1.60
236.	Variable-Magic	0.52
237.	Win32-API	0.75
238.	Win32-Console-ANSI	1.04
239.	Win32-EventLog	0.076
240.	Win32-Exe	0.17
241.	Win32-File	0.06
242.	Win32-File-Object	0.02
243.	Win32-OLE	0.1709
244.	Win32-Pipe	0.024
245.	Win32-Process	0.14
246.	Win32-TieRegistry	0.26
247.	Win32-UTCFileTime	1.55
248.	Win32-WinError	0.03
249.	Win32API-Registry	0.32
250.	WWW-Mechanize	1.72
251.	WWW-RobotRules	6.02
252.	XML-LibXML	2.0018
253.	XML-LibXSLT	1.80
254.	XML-NamespaceSupport	1.11
255.	XML-Parser	2.41
256.	XML-SAX	0.99
257.	XML-SAX-Base	1.08
258.	XML-SAX-Expat	0.40
259.	XML-Simple	2.20
260.	YAML	0.84
261.	YAML-LibYAML	0.41
262.	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-9.2.4	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 18 subversion 0) configuration:
   
  Platform:
    osname=MSWin32, osvers=4.0, archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-64int
    uname='Win32 strawberry-perl 5.18.0.1 #1 Sat May 18 17:46:00 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=define, 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 -DUSE_PERLIO -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=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\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=libperl518.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_HASH_FUNC_ONE_AT_A_TIME_HARD
                        PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
                        PERL_MALLOC_WRAP PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV PERL_SAWAMPERSAND
                        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 May 18 2013 17:53:14
  @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
WARNING: can't open config file: z:/strawberry_libs/build/_wrk_2013Q1_.out/ssl/openssl.cnf

Strawberry Perl (5.18.0.1-32bit) Release Notes