Fwd: Strawberry Perl capabilities?

Forwarded from the Perl Beginners list.

It would be nice if this and in general the question "How does
Strawberry compare to ActivePerl?" was addressed in a FAQ on the
Strawberry web-site.


Gabor

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Christensen <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 2:39 AM
Subject: Strawberry Perl capabilities?
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>


Shlomi Fish wrote:
>
> Actually, Strawberry Perl is preferable over AS Perl:
> http://strawberryperl.com/

From memory, AS makes (commercial) Perl tools for creating stand-alone
Windows executables and single-file Windows Installer packages.  I
also recall a Perl .NET toolchain.  Does Strawberry Perl have any of
these capabilities?  Must Strawberry Perl be installed first on
end-users' machines?


It's my understanding that Strawberry Perl provides a C compiler and a
working CPAN environment.  This is well and good for pure Perl
applications, but I also write Perl software that drives GNU
command-line tools (ssh, tar, gzip, rsync, etc.) and/or is driven by
other GNU tools and/or Apache.  I have found Win32 binaries for some
of the pieces, but only Cygwin seems to have everything I need.  How
does a Strawberry Perl developer deal with these cases?


TIA,

David