Strawberry Perl 5.40.0.1-RC1

Development release of Strawberry Perl using Perl 5.40.0-RC1.

Note that the version of the Perl executable contained in the zip file has been set to 5.39.11.1 to avoid possible later confusion.

Not all modules are currently packaged. Known issues are being tracked under the perl-5.40 tag: see https://github.com/StrawberryPerl/Perl-Dist-Strawberry/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Aperl5.40

The .../c/bin dir needs to be cleaned up. It contains Winlibs utilities that are not needed for the final release.

Note: There are minor differences from the tag, committed after that tag.
54e5335 fixes issues with the portableshell batch files not working on some systems (discovered after packaging). The zip file was manually updated rather than run a whole new build.
00d41c7 was used in the build process.

Patched CPAN modules

This provides a location from which we can distribute CPAN modules patched to work against versions of Strawberry Perl.

Strawberry Perl 5.39.10.1 64-bit

Perl 5.39.10, 64 bit.

This is provided for testing purposes.

Some modules are not packaged due to build or test failures (e.g. CryptX, GD).

Strawberry Perl 5.38.2.2 64-bit

Perl 5.38.2 for 64-bit environments.

Key differences from the 5.38.0 release are:

1. The make.exe and cmake.exe files have been removed. They caused clashes with other toolchains.
2. The patch utility is now the same as the one provided with Strawberry Perl 5.32. The one provided with SP 5.38.0 and SP 5.36.1 does not work properly. StrawberryPerl/build-extlibs#51
3. All external libs packaged with 5.32.1 are part of the distribution.
4. DBD::MySql is not provided. Newer versions of DBD::MySql require a more recent version of libmysql, which is not yet part of the build system (but see #157).
5. This perl is built with additional compiler optimisations. If there are any instabilities then these will need to be reverted.

Note that this release uses the same compiler toolchain as version 5.38.0.1 so will have the same UTF-8 locale issues. See #150.

Strawberry Perl 5.38.2.1 64-bit

Perl 5.38.2 for 64-bit environments.

Key differences from the 5.38.0 release are:

1. The make.exe and cmake.exe files have been removed. They caused clashes with other toolchains.
2. The patch utility is now the same as the one provided with Strawberry Perl 5.32. The one provided with SP 5.38.0 and SP 5.36.1 does not work properly. StrawberryPerl/build-extlibs#51
3. libfribidi is now part of the distribution.
4. DBD::MySql is not provided. Newer versions of DBD::MySql require a more recent version of libmysql, which is not yet part of the build system (but see #157).

Note that this release uses the same compiler toolchain as version 5.38.0.1 so will have the same UTF-8 locale issues. See #150.

Strawberry Perl 5.36.3.1 64-bit

Perl 5.36.3 for 64-bit environments.

Key differences from the 5.36.1 release are:

1. The make.exe and cmake.exe files have been removed. They caused clashes with other toolchains.
2. The patch utility is now the same as the one provided with Strawberry Perl 5.32. The one provided with SP 5.38.0 and SP 5.36.1 does not work properly. StrawberryPerl/build-extlibs#51
3. libfribidi is now part of the distribution.
4. DBD::MySql is not provided. Newer versions of DBD::MySql require a more recent version of libmysql, which is not yet part of the build system (but see #157).

Note that this release uses the same compiler toolchain as version 5.36.1.1 so will have the same UTF-8 locale issues. See #150.

Strawberry Perl 5.38.2, 32-bit

Perl 5.38.2 for 32-bit environments.

Key differences from the 64-bit releases are:

1. The files under the c directory are the same as the 32-bit SP 5.32.1 release. This means, for example, that gcc is version 8.3.0.
2. Not all of the CPAN libs are packaged.

dev release 5.38 32-bit cut-down

This is a development release of Perl 5.38.1 for 32-bit environments.

Key differences from the 64-bit releases are:

1. The files under the c directory are the same as the 32-bit SP 5.32.1 release. This means, for example, that gcc is version 8.3.0.
2. Not all of the CPAN libs have been installed. (The final version might have even fewer).

Note also that the Perl 5.38.1 release is pending some final changes, and might be replaced by a 5.38.2 release.

test release 5.38.0.2 portable

This is a test release of Strawberry Perl 5.38.0.2.

This release is to test if a local build avoids the locale issues reported for 5.38.0.1, for example #119

The main change from 5.38.0.1 is that it is built on a local machine instead of a docker instance.

Strawberry Perl 5.38.0 and 5.36.1

Strawberry Perl 5.38.0 and 5.36.1 MSI, portable and PDL editions.

These are compiled using gcc-13.1 (winlibs release 5). Both use the same set of "external" libs.

For a list of known test failures and build issues see https://github.com/StrawberryPerl/Perl-Dist-Strawberry/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Aperl5.36 and https://github.com/StrawberryPerl/Perl-Dist-Strawberry/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Aperl5.38

If you find an issue with a module then please report it to that module's issue tracker.
If the issue is with the Strawberry Perl build then please report using the Perl-Dist-Strawberry issue tracker.

Main changes since the 5.32 release:

• t1lib is not included. It causes segmentation faults with Imager and has also been removed from several other distributions about a decade ago. See Issue #108
• DBD::Oracle is not currently distributed. Details are in #69
• Several additional modules are included, for example PAR::Packer and Devel::NYTProf

Strawberry Perl 5.36.1.1 SHA256 Checksums:

• 5.36.1.1-64bit portable: 96dc0fc440e3123dd8d58df3498e41caba20610f33ed67af937a61b296c4786c
• 5.36.1.1-64bit PDL: 505f7655aa6c42a48ca33a6c5208051b80863356967c14f8f6412e00e565214b
• 5.36.1.1-64bit msi: a33e5cfec12bab823b5072dccc869016aeb15b1f3c6513a14f4d0441304a5264

Strawberry Perl 5.38.0.1 SHA256 Checksums:

• 5.38.0.1-64bit portable: ca6402a466939d5d658cc0d09a20dc59635ae68f6903a92a747a802539e40908
• 5.38.0.1-64bit PDL: 2120905d6145cad9c670f5dd0d306b0e1b45f941fd737c945ad99228292f7a38
• 5.38.0.1-64bit msi: a9b44e50424dcc7e40b8f67d906c76a15469af3d5998e04635fa8465a0a56877