note marto <p>Both ActiveState and Strawberry Perl support module installation via <c>PPM</c> and <c>cpan</c> as standard. Strawberry Perl ships with a C compiler and build tools as part of the distribution. With ActiveState you need to install these via PPM (<c>ppm MinGW</c>).</p> <p>I prefer Strawberry Perl for the reason that it has everything I need as standard, meaning I can use it on systems which don't have internet access. I keep it and a cpan archive (created with [mod://CPAN::Mini]) on my phone which I can transfer via USB or wifi to target systems.</p> 1003323 1003323