C:\>perl -V Set up gcc environment - 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3) Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 12 subversion 3) configuration: Platform: osname=MSWin32, osvers=5.2, archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread uname='' 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='C:/Perl/site/bin/gcc.exe', ccflags ='-DNDEBUG -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -DNO_ST RICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLIC IT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -D_USE_32BIT_TIME_T -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX -DHASATTRIBUTE -fn o-strict-aliasing -mms-bitfields', optimize='-O2', cppflags='-DWIN32' ccversion='', gccversion='3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3)', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234 d_longlong=undef, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=8 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='__int64', lseeksi ze=8 alignbytes=8, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='C:\Perl\site\bin\g++.exe', ldflags ='-L"C:\Perl\lib\CORE"' libpth=\lib libs=-lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwinspool -lcomdlg32 -ladvapi32 -lshell32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -lnetapi32 -luuid -lws2_32 -lmpr -lwinmm -lversion -lodbc32 - lodbccp32 -lcomctl32 -lmsvcrt perllibs=-lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwinspool -lcomdlg32 -ladvapi32 -lshel l32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -lnetapi32 -luuid -lws2_32 -lmpr -lwinmm -lversion -lodbc 32 -lodbccp32 -lcomctl32 -lmsvcrt libc=msvcrt.lib, so=dll, useshrplib=true, libperl=perl512.lib gnulibc_version='' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_win32.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' ' cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-mdll -L"C:\Perl\lib\CORE"' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS PERL_MALLOC_WRAP PL_OP_SLAB_ALLOC USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO USE_PERL_ATOF USE_SITECUSTOMIZE Locally applied patches: ActivePerl Build 1204 [294330] c6fbf28 [perl #71806] perldb does not setup %dbline with the shebang opt ion -d 1fd8fa4 Add Wolfram Humann to AUTHORS f120055 make string-append on win32 100 times faster a2a8d15 Define _USE_32BIT_TIME_T for VC6 and VC7 007cfe1 Don't pretend to support really old VC++ compilers 6d8f7c9 Get rid of obsolete PerlCRT.dll support d956618 Make Term::ReadLine::findConsole fall back to STDIN if /dev/tty can't be opened 321e50c Escape patch strings before embedding them in patchlevel.h Built under MSWin32 Compiled at Feb 9 2011 14:38:22 @INC: C:/Perl/site/lib C:/Perl/lib .