Additionally, strawberry contains a fully featured Mingw-w64 C/C++ compiler with many libraries included.
While most other distributions rely on the user having software development tools already set up to install certain Perl components, Strawberry Perl ships with the most commonly used tools preconfigured and packaged.
Through the CPAN, Perl users can download any of a vast number of prepackaged modules.
Most Perl distributions assume that such an environment - which is usually provided with most Unix or Linux systems - already exists; however, Windows does not come with a C compiler and the required development environment, and these must be installed separately by the user or the administrator.
However, Strawberry Perl incorporates the MinGW development environment during installation.