It's important that you read the documentation for the modules (or programs or libraries) you want to use.README says:

Windows:
    Supported on 32 and 64 bit platforms
    See README.Win32 for details
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README.Win32. Super Search for further discussions on this topic. Strawberry Perl ships with this (and many other useful modules) as standard. Consider also the ppm installation route.

Update: Expanded first sentence, added last sentence.