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

If you don't want to mess around with any paths or do anything permanent there is an easy TEMPORARY hack. Type "where perl" at Cygwin sh prompt. It will list all the Perl.exe it sees in PATH in their order of execution. Change the names of the ones you don't want to be seen that get listed before the perl you want to use. But DO remember to change them back when you are done or you might have a few problems down the road.