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I'm new the the strawberry distro, and need to install a bunch of CPAN modules. It doesn't seem that it comes with the necessary build utils to do so. Is there a single-install that would install all the needed utils to build the CPAN modules? I read this is also a place to make suggestions about things to include for strawberry distros...(?) Maybe this would be a good thing to include as an optional install (maybe default, w/option to turn it off?) As it is, can anyone give me a point to the needed utils for building CPAN modules on Win32 (or Win32). All that said -- my real preference would be that all of strawberry and the modules work on Win64, since I don't want to be limited to the 32-bit sections of the registry and 32-bit redirections in the file system. I used to do all of my Win Sys Admin (backups, indexing, cleanup, etc...) in pearl scripts using Cygwin, but ever since moving to Win7, they all broke, and compat procedures are a hodgepodge, with gotcha's appearing at the most inopportune times. So my preference would be to have such a fully fleshed out system in x64. My biggest itch is in path separators. While many Win utils handle "/" as well as "\", some don't. But even some (many?) system calls or api calls handle either (registry accesses); apparently MS-internal programmers found using '\\' all over the place as noxious as anyone else. Given most of their code was in 'C'-syntax compat languages. But all that aside, right now, I just need a set of utils I can toss together with Strwbry-Perl, to get me up and running w/CPAN. A 64-bit BASH replacement would be REALLY appreciated, since there's already a 64-bit 'Console2' version that could be using it -- with that, anything I call can run in 64 (or 32-bit) mode, though by default, any progs I call from the 32-bit bash get invoked in a 32-bit form (if they work at all). Many times, I am tracking down problems in scripts and the problem is that they stem from the 32-bit shell having invoked a 32-bit version of some program or worse -- some registry or file subtree that is redirected for 32-bit progs -- making me waste time trying to figure out why it isn't giving me the 'right' answer as I look at the tree with other 64-bit tool....*face-slap*. Thanks in helping me come up to speed. VERY appreciated! LindaThread Next