From what I understand, after running 'perl Makefile.PL', I need to run 'make' to compile the code

No ... after 'perl Makefile.PL' you need to run whatever perl -V:make reports.

For me:

C:\>perl -V:make
make='dmake';

C:\>
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So, for me, it's dmake that needs to be run.

Cheers,
Rob