perl 5.34 has been released, when can I download it? #26
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New maintainers are working on it, but their unfamiliarity with the ecosystem is slowing them down. Be patient. |
You are right, i just want to know what happened, thanks. |
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Are the new maintainers making headway with the ecosystem? |
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And now we have the 5.36 release waiting for Windows support ... |
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Note that perl-5.34.0, perl-5.34.1 and perl-5.36.0 all build straight out
of the box using mingw-w64 compilers, so long as the mingw-w64 compiler
being used has mingw runtime version 8 or earlier.
(The mingw runtime version of the gcc-8.3.0 that ships with
StrawberryPerl-5.32.x uses mingw runtime version 6.)
It also builds straight out of the box with Visual Studio compilers.
Of course, the main attraction of Strawberry Perl is not that it provides
a build of perl for windows, but that it additionally provides a large
number of 3rd party C libraries, and a large number of non-core modules (in
vendor/lib).
Cheers,
Rob
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And now we have the 5.36 release waiting for Windows support ...
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Nice to know, but I think the strawberry strong point is that you don't have to build Perl. |
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While it's true that Strawberry will compile with MinGW, it's not as simple as it sounds. StrawberryPerl/Perl-Dist-Strawberry#28 (comment) and https://github.com/StrawberryPerl/spbuild can help explain the process a bit |
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On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 10:52 PM Chase Whitener ***@***.***> wrote:
While it's true that Strawberry will compile with MinGW, it's not as
simple as it sounds.
I actually disagree with that.
Building perl is incredibly easy - though, admittedly, everything is easy
when you know how ;-)
If you've got StrawberryPerl-5.32.x, then you've got everything you need to
build perl-5.34.x and perl-5.36.x.
Just tell me the location where you want to install your perl, the location
of the gcc.exe that is going to build that perl, and whether that gcc.exe
is 32-bit or 64-bit, and I'll provide the 2 commands that need to be run
(in the windows cmd.exe shell) in order to build and install that perl,
with the same configuration as StrawberryPerl provides.
(The second command of those 2 commands is simply "gmake install").
StrawberryPerl/Perl-Dist-Strawberry#28 (comment)
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and https://github.com/StrawberryPerl/spbuild can help explain the
process a bit
Neither of those links are relevant to the building of perl itself - though
they are very relevant to the building of those extras that ship with
StrawberryPerl.
Cheers,
Rob
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All of that surrounding stuff is building Strawberry Perl. Getting the environment setup correctly to build a release is part of the build. Building the various libraries on the actual version of MinGW we're using is building Strawberry. I think we're mixing up being able to compile Perl vs making an actual Strawberry release. |
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On Wed, Jun 1, 2022 at 12:38 AM Chase Whitener ***@***.***> wrote:
I think we're mixing up being able to compile Perl vs making an actual
Strawberry release.
Yes, I think so.
I just wanted Miguel to know that if it's just a matter of compiling
perl-5.36.0 from source, then it's really a very simple task.
But if you're wanting any of the additional stuff that StrawberryPerl
provides then, as you've indicated, the work increases - in amount and
complexity.
Cheers,
Rob
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In my opinion Strawberry Perl is the best out-of-the-box perl environment for the windows platform. I'll continue to wait for the new version to be released, but I wonder if the current Strawberry Perl is not releasing a new version because there are some intractable problems? As you can see the latest version 5.36 has also been released. |
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@fenginsc I haven't gotten 5.34 or 5.36 released yet because I've just taken on the project and there are tons and tons of things to get exactly right. I provided links above that describe some of the complexities. It's being worked on. |
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What can I do to help? |
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A development release of 5.36.1 built using gcc-13.1 is available at https://github.com/StrawberryPerl/Perl-Dist-Strawberry/releases/tag/dev_5361_20230506_gcc13 We'll circle back to 5.34 once 5.36 is out (and maybe also 5.38 given it is imminent). Please test it and log any issues on the Perl-Dist-Strawberry issue tracker. The list of known issues is at https://github.com/StrawberryPerl/Perl-Dist-Strawberry/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Aperl5.36 @matthewpersico - is the offer of help still open? |
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Great, very much looking forward to the official arrival of the new version. |
Significant changes in my life since June 2022, but if you have a task list, let me see it and I'll try to pick items off. |
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Thanks @matthewpersico The current list of issues is at https://github.com/StrawberryPerl/Perl-Dist-Strawberry/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Aperl5.36 The main issue is with PDL, which is segfaulting. This might be deeper than you want to get into but maybe something with the build env will stand out. The current patches and config settings are at https://github.com/StrawberryPerl/Perl-Dist-Strawberry/blob/25410d3e11085fec4549b3ddfbdda2b565aa2615/share/64bit-5.36.1.1.pp#L54-L82. |
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Strawberry Perl 5.36.1.1 and 5.38.0.1 have been released. The website is a work in progress as we don't yet have access. In the meantime they can be downloaded from https://github.com/StrawberryPerl/Perl-Dist-Strawberry/releases/tag/SP_5380_5361 A SP 5.34 might be built for completeness. That's being tracked in StrawberryPerl/Perl-Dist-Strawberry#124 I'll close this issue in a few days (maybe a bit later) unless there is a reason to keep it open. |
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@shawnlaffan |
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Closing issue as promised, albeit somewhat later than initially thought. |
The release does not seem to be very timely, is it currently built manually? Are there any plans to build it automatically? For example, use the current mainstream CI/CD tools.
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