Perl Module Manual Install Windows XP

Question

What is the process to manually installing Perl modules on Windows XP? I've seen UNIX commands like

perl Makefile.PL
make
make install

but I can't find a comparable 'make' command in Windows commandline. I cannot use CPAN to install the modules, as firewall settings prevent the.network accesses needed. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Strawberry Perl includes dmake which, to my knowledge, is essentially the same as make except it's built for a Windows environment. There are also other alternatives such as GNU make .

Answer 2

Nowadays Strawberry Perl includes gmake tool.

Trying to use dmake outputs DMAKE WARNING : Do not use dmake.exe utility as it is no longer part of Strawberry Perl, use gmake.exe instead!