Install Imager-File-PNG on Windows ActiveState Perl

1nelly1 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I would like to install WWWW::Mechanize::Chrome and the last dependency I need to install is Imager-File-PNG.
I am using cpanminus for installation and it says: OS unsupported: PNG libraries or headers not found. So I installed 'gnuwin32 libpng' but this does not change anything.
Can somebody please help me?
Also I would be interested if anybody is running WWW::Mechanize::Chrome on Windows and ActiveState-Perl.
Thank you 1nelly1

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Re: Install Imager-File-PNG on Windows ActiveState Perl by Corion (Patriarch) on Apr 16, 2020 at 08:57 UTC
Imager and Imager::File::PNG are only needed if you want screenshots. If you don't need to do these, you can ignore that prerequisite and (force-)install the module without it.	[reply]
Re^2: Install Imager-File-PNG on Windows ActiveState Perl by 1nelly1 (Sexton) on Apr 16, 2020 at 10:07 UTC
Dear Corion, thank you for that information. I don't need screenshots. So I will force the installation. Very good. Thank you 1nelly1	[reply]
Re: Install Imager-File-PNG on Windows ActiveState Perl by marto (Cardinal) on Apr 16, 2020 at 09:17 UTC
It seem that you could make life easier for yourself by switching to Strawberry perl, out of the box it has a sane build environment included, along with many modules, tools and libraries.	[reply]
Re^2: Install Imager-File-PNG on Windows ActiveState Perl by 1nelly1 (Sexton) on Apr 16, 2020 at 10:16 UTC
Dear marto, thank you very much for your comment. Yes, you are absolutely right. However with Strawberry Perl I had difficulties to install Image::Magick which I also need. And with ActiveState-Perl I have already a running system. Now as I know from Corion that it is only needed for screenshot function I will force the installation on ActiveState-Perl. Thank you. 1nelly1	[reply]