Activeperl version
 

Does the emulator support activeperl 5.12.3 exclusively or can I use the latest community edition (5.16.x) without breaking my server?

I'm happy with what I have but the stupid ppm won't let me download DBD-Mysql because I don't have a business license

you should be able to install from a different repository (mirror).

one can be found here

http://trouchelle.com/perl/ppmrepview.pl

if you know the exact url for the package, you can install like this

ppm install http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/DBD-mysql.ppd

5.12 is for 32bit installs, 64bit can use higher if they wish. Perl has a bug in 32 bit windows versions after 5.12 that causes one of the error check macros to return NULL when it shouldn't (causing crashes).

Okay, So I should be able to update my perl (since perl -v) returns that I am using the x64 version, or use a mirror to download the correct ppm? Thank you guys =)