Perl-Dist-Strawberry Where does Strawberry Perl's MSI register its installation path in the Windows registry?

The MSI installer seems to refuse to upgrade older Perl installations, so it must know the installed version. I need to detect the installed location (and version) from the Windows registry (as it may not be installed in C:\Strawberry). Where can that be done?

Oct 31 '24 03:10 alexchandel

I find Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{6E17823E-7849-1014-9A51-F359819898C5} value name InstallLocation has the install location for 5.40, but not sure if that GUID is guaranteed preserved across versions.

Oct 31 '24 14:10 alexchandel

https://github.com/StrawberryPerl/Perl-Dist-Strawberry/blob/master/lib/Perl/Dist/Strawberry/Step/OutputMSI.pm looks like a good place to start.

Oct 31 '24 16:10 mohawk2

Also the files under https://github.com/StrawberryPerl/Perl-Dist-Strawberry/tree/master/share/msi

Oct 31 '24 19:10 shawnlaffan

There has been no further discussion in this ticket for about ten months.

I think the specific issue is resolved so I will close this in about a week, or when I next do a sweep of issues.

The broader problem of upgrading in place warrants its own issue.

Sep 19 '25 23:09 shawnlaffan