Hello monks, I apologize for continuing to harp on this question; I've posted a similar question here as Where is Perl/Tk? bribes.org is offline?, got many suggestions but none have panned out.

The situation:

• I wrote a perl script several years ago with the Tk module.
• My users use ActiveState Perl on Win7, and that repository no longer carries the module.
• For a while I was able to refer users to the bribes.org repository, but that seems to be down. The command used to install:
  ppm install http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm/Tk.ppd
• I can see the module on cpan, but don't know how to install it on win7. Yes I've read the instructions http://www.cpan.org/modules/INSTALL.html, but always get things like:

  c:\> cpan App::cpanminus
  ... lots of messages...
  c:\> cpan Tk
  ... lots of messages...
  
  Writing Makefile for Tk
  'nmake' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
  operable program or batch file.
    SREZIC/Tk-804.030.tar.gz
    nmake -- NOT OK
  CPAN: YAML::XS loaded ok (v0.35)
  Running make test
    Can't test without successful make
  Running make install
    Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
  [download]

• When I run ppm repo I see the following (I've disabled bribes as it hangs):

  id	pkgs	name
  1	16730	ActiveState Package Repository
  2	0	cpan
  3	n/a	bribes
  4	13	wxperl

  So it looks like cpan is showing zero packages.
• Tk does not appear in the user's list if they run the ppm gui.
• There have been suggestions to migrate to Tkx but that seems like it would be many days of recoding and retesting with an unfamiliar module. (It's a pretty complicated script.)

I can download the module from cpan Tk-804.030.tar.gz but don't know how to install it on windows. Is there a 'ppm' command I can use on that gz file, locally?

I can't ask my users to install something like cygwin; I'd prefer to have tum run it from the basic win7 command line.

Sorry if this all sounds lame, but can anyone help me through this?

thanks, Scott