To do this I used the "makeppd.pl" script I found

Stop that :)

... dmake ... nmake

dmake isn't nmake, and you can't mix the two

Do what A Practical Guide to Compiling C based Modules under ActiveState using Microsoft C++ tells you, use cpan/cpanp/cpanm to install modules, or run Makefile.PL yourself ( see A Guide To Installing Modules )

If you have to , force the make with argument to Makefile.PL , see using dmake instead of nmake on Windows

If you still get some kind of path problem (and its not just the plain wrong path), check your env vars, see Strawberry Perl 5.12.3, CPAN, make file problems (dmake.exe), DFSEP and backslash "\"