Re: 'INC' paths for Perl

On 07/12/2013 14:59, Jeremy Nicoll - ml perl for windows wrote:
>
> I wonder if perl modules refer to all the folders & subfolders within perl
> using linux-style names, and that something else in a Windows install
> converts those to Windows style folder names when needed.  If that's correct
> it would mean that modules could be written in a more or less
> platform-agnostic way.
>

Thanks Jeremy.  I can see how that seems plausible but to be honest, I 
think that's doubtful.  On the system which works correctly, the paths 
don't look anything like the ones I see in 'Config.pm' - so I think they 
must be getting calculated at run time somehow (either by Perl itself or 
by whatever program happens to be driving it).  OTOH the paths I see in 
Config.pm definitely DO look like the ones I'm seeing on the non-working 
machine so my guess is that those paths are some kind of fallback option.

Just like you, I don't have any recollection of ever having to run a 
'configure' stage for Strawberry Perl - which brings the question....   
are there any known issues between Strawberry Perl and Windows 8.1?  
According to Control Panel I've installed Strawberry Perl ver 
5.16.2001.  I don't mind updating if there's a later version that's 
known to work with Win 8.1.

John