How can I modify my cygwin environment to use Strawberry Perl instead of the packaged Perl distribution?

Question

I currently use Strawberry Perl as my primary Perl distribution. However, I have some applications that make Perl calls through cygwin. These generally fail because they are

Answer 1

One good thing I can add is that if you get the right perl to come first in the path, it should handle site-specific CPAN modules you may have installed with strawberry perl running in a CMD shell.

"which perl" is your friend.

If you had trouble with this, you could set the PERL5LIB environment variable, but it shouldn't be necessary.

I still pass in DOS-style file paths as parameters into the perl script, i.e. "d:\data\myfile.txt", not "/cygdrive/d/data/myfile.txt". So oddly enough, this mix of path notation works:

bash> /cygdrive/d/scripts/myscript.pl d:\data\myfile.txt