Home/ Questions/Q 3402100
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-18T05:05:48+00:00

The command for finding the perl version perl -V gives information related Platform, Compiler,

  • 0

The command for finding the perl version “perl -V” gives information related
Platform, Compiler, Linker and Libraries, Dynamic Linking, Compile-time options & Locally applied patches. Could you please let me know from where each of these information’s are extracted(Environment variables or any other method) and description of various parameters under each group.
I am facing problem in library files inclusion because of many version of Perl installed in my machine.

Below is the description I got from my machine:

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 10 subversion 0) configuration:

   Platform:
        osname=MSWin32, osvers=5.1, archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
        uname=''
        config_args='undef'
        hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=undef
        useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define
        useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef
        use64bitint=undef, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef
        usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
    Compiler:
        cc='gcc', ccflags =' -s -O2 -DWIN32 -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT  -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTE
    XT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -fno-strict-aliasing -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX',
        optimize='-s -O2',
        cppflags='-DWIN32'
        ccversion='', gccversion='3.4.5', gccosandvers=''
        intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
        d_longlong=undef, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
        ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='long long', lseek
    size=8
        alignbytes=8, prototype=define
      Linker and Libraries:
        ld='g++', ldflags ='-s -L"C:\strawberry\perl\lib\CORE" -L"C:\strawberry\c\li
    b"'
        libpth=C:\strawberry\c\lib
        libs= -lmsvcrt -lmoldname -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwinspool -lcomdlg32
    -ladvapi32 -lshell32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -lnetapi32 -luuid -lws2_32 -lmpr -lwinmm
     -lversion -lodbc32 -lodbccp32
        perllibs= -lmsvcrt -lmoldname -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwinspool -lcomdl
    g32 -ladvapi32 -lshell32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -lnetapi32 -luuid -lws2_32 -lmpr -lw
    inmm -lversion -lodbc32 -lodbccp32
        libc=-lmsvcrt, so=dll, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl510.a
        gnulibc_version=''
      Dynamic Linking:
        dlsrc=dl_win32.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
        cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-mdll -s -L"C:\strawberry\perl\lib\CORE" -L"C:\st
    rawberry\c\lib"'


    Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
      Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV
                            PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
                            PERL_MALLOC_WRAP PL_OP_SLAB_ALLOC USE_ITHREADS
                            USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO
      Built under MSWin32
      Compiled at Apr 30 2009 14:30:10
      %ENV:
        PERL5_INCLUDE="C:\Perl\lib\CORE\"
        PERL5_LIB="C:\Perl\lib\CORE\"
      @INC:
        C:/Perl/lib
        C:/Perl/site/lib
Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    See Config.

    The Config module contains all the information that was available to the Configure program at Perl build time (over 900 values).

    You can query the value of an individual variable. E.g.,

    C:\> perl -V:intsize

    Now, if you have multiple Perl installations on Windows, you need to be careful. I have six separate versions on my machine. At some point, I decided to use the ActiveState distribution as the “system” one. Therefore, my path starts with the bin directories of that distribution:

    Path=c:\opt\perl\site\bin;c:\opt\perl\bin; ...

    The other ones live in their own directories. I have batch files for all of them. These batch files simply prepend the relevant bin directories to the path. I can also explicitly invoke them by path. E.g.,

    E:\Home> c:\opt\strawberry-5.12.1\perl\bin\perl -V

    In addition, I use Console2 which enables me to open cmd.exe shells in tabs with the correct settings for each tab. Finally, I used FileMenu Tools to set up right-click short cuts to open command prompts with the relevant settings applied.

    This way, I can use one main Perl for day-to-day development and other versions are available as needed. And, none of them tramples on each other’s toes.

    Keep in mind that, while it does not seem to be absolutely necessary, you should set up each distributions cpan to use a version specific directory.

    • 0