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in reply to Installing Perl on a Windows PC

An even easier method of installing a full working Perl system under Windows is now available: CamelPack. It downloads and installs ActivePerl, Dev-C++ and nmake to provide a Perl environment that is compatible with CPAN (as well as ActiveState's PPM). Here's all you have to do:
  1. Download the setup.exe, and then run it.
  2. For the Dev-C++ pack, you can just install the "MinGW compiler system" option if you don't want the full IDE.
  3. Then run cpan to get it configured.

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