Strawberry Perl 5.42.3.1

Strawberry Perl is a comprehensive Perl development environment designed specifically for Microsoft Windows. It provides everything necessary to run and develop Perl applications, aiming to replicate the standard Perl environment found on UNIX systems as closely as possible. This tool is ideal for developers and system administrators who need a reliable, self-contained Perl setup on Windows without the complexity of manual configuration.

Key features:

• Complete Perl environment for MS Windows
• Includes Perl binaries and the GCC compiler
• Bundles related development tools
• Contains external libraries for crypto, math, graphics, and XML
• Includes bundled database clients
• Designed to mirror the UNIX Perl environment
• Supports both simple scripts and complex applications
• Available in MSI, portable, and PDL editions

What's new in version 5.42.3.1:

• Compiled using GCC 13.2 with UCRT
• Uses additional optimization options compared to the default -Os flag
• Config_heavy.pl updated to use -O2 when building CPAN distributions
• Optimizations match those of Strawberry Perl 5.38.2.2 and 5.42.0.1