perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 28 subversion 0) configuration: Platform: osname=MSWin32 osvers=10.0.17134.112 archname=MSWin32-x64-multi-thread uname='Win32 strawberry-perl 5.28.0.1 #1 Sat Jun 23 13:55:45 2018 x64' config_args='undef' hint=recommended useposix=true d_sigaction=undef useithreads=define usemultiplicity=define use64bitint=define use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n default_inc_excludes_dot=define bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='gcc' ccflags =' -s -O2 -DWIN32 -DWIN64 -DCONSERVATIVE -D__USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO -DPERL_TEXTMODE_SCRIPTS -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -mms-bitfields' optimize='-s -O2' cppflags='-DWIN32' ccversion='' gccversion='7.1.0' gccosandvers='' intsize=4 longsize=4 ptrsize=8 doublesize=8 byteorder=12345678 doublekind=3 d_longlong=define longlongsize=8 d_longdbl=define longdblsize=16 longdblkind=3 ivtype='long long' ivsize=8 nvtype='double' nvsize=8 Off_t='long long' lseeksize=8 alignbytes=8 prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='g++' 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 C:\Strawberry\c\lib\gcc\x86_64-w64-mingw32\7.1.0 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 -lole32 -loleaut32 -lnetapi32 -luuid -lws2_32 -lmpr -lwinmm -lversion -lodbc32 -lodbccp32 -lcomctl32 libc= so=dll useshrplib=true libperl=libperl528.a gnulibc_version='' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_win32.xs dlext=xs.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_COPY_ON_WRITE PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS PERL_MALLOC_WRAP PERL_OP_PARENT PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV USE_64_BIT_INT USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES USE_LOCALE USE_LOCALE_COLLATE USE_LOCALE_CTYPE USE_LOCALE_NUMERIC USE_LOCALE_TIME USE_PERLIO USE_PERL_ATOF Built under MSWin32 Compiled at Jun 23 2018 14:00:04 @INC: C:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib C:/Strawberry/perl/vendor/lib C:/Strawberry/perl/lib