mod_perl isn't needed to get scripts running under apache. From our brief conversation it doesn't sound like you're doing anything that really needs mod_perl, you'd definitely know if you were using it. The XAMPP stack includes apache, mariadb, perl/php etc, and is available as a single installer for Windows. If your goal is to provide something for someone else this may be an avenue worth exploring if you want to save them the trouble of setting these things up by hand.