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

Many of these are good solutions, but I rather take an easy one that I don't have to modify more than once.

All you need to do is add/modify a line in your .bashrc file.

# Prepend strawberry perl to cygwin's path
export PATH=/cygdrive/C/Tools/Perl/perl/bin:$PATH

source .bashrc file from your shell, (or start a new shell) and run your program.

source ~/.bashrc
perl script.pl