Strawberry Perl is “Open Source Perl for Windows that is exactly the same
as Perl everywhere else”. Vanilla Perl “provides a Perl distribution that is as close to the Perl core as possible.” Strawberry Perl is built on Vanilla Perl.
Both distributions come with a C compiler so that perl modules from CPAN that use XS can be built.
What are the differences between Strawberry Perl and Vanilla Perl?
Just read the explanation on the Vanilla Perl homepage
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