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

This is probably not a preferred solution, but you should be able to modify the #! line:

#!/cygdrive/c/strawberry/perl/bin/perl5.10.0

I always refer to an explicit location and installation of perl, rather than relying on what is in /usr/bin.