Portal:Windows

This page discusses known options for Perl on Windows and options for creating Perl-based programs for distribution on Windows. It focuses more on creating programs for distribution (i.e., selling programs and services to paying customers) than it does for creating a development environment for doing productive things with Perl on Windows.

Perl Environments on Windows

Strawberry Perl

Summary

Strawberry Perl is the best way to get Perl onto Windows. At the time of this writing, Strawberry Perl is up to date with the latest upstream perl version. It is compiled using MinGW-W64 for both 64 and 32 bit Windows. Larry Wall uses it.

Download Installers

https://strawberryperl.com/releases.html

Development Website

https://github.com/StrawberryPerl

Getting Support

https://strawberryperl.com/support.html