Seeking a workaround for the failure of cpanm to install Tk::TableMatrix in Starwberry Perl v26, I thought to maybe try it out in a portable installation of Strawberrry Perl 24, and that worked. So, finding success, I next went to install also the module PP, which promply failed.

The failure occurs here ...

A:\PP>cpanm pp
--> Working on pp
Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/R/RS/RSCHUPP/PAR-Packer-1.037.
+tar.gz ... OK
Configuring PAR-Packer-1.037 ... OK
==> Found dependencies: Module::ScanDeps, Getopt::ArgvFile
--> Working on Module::ScanDeps
Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/R/RS/RSCHUPP/Module-ScanDeps-1
+.24.tar.gz ... OK
Configuring Module-ScanDeps-1.24 ... OK
Building and testing Module-ScanDeps-1.24 ... OK
Successfully installed Module-ScanDeps-1.24
--> Working on Getopt::ArgvFile
Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/J/JS/JSTENZEL/Getopt-ArgvFile-
+1.11.tar.gz ... OK
Configuring Getopt-ArgvFile-1.11 ... OK
Building and testing Getopt-ArgvFile-1.11 ... OK
Successfully installed Getopt-ArgvFile-1.11
Building and testing PAR-Packer-1.037 ...
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It fails with the pop-up herewith included. The pop-up occures six times in a row, like that over and over.

The pop-up says...

Just to be sure there was no confusion with cpanm from my installed Strawberry on the c: drive, I tried it again like below, (first insuring that my prior installs had really taken)...

----------------------------------------------
 Welcome to Strawberry Perl Portable Edition!
 * URL - http://www.strawberryperl.com/
 * see README.TXT for more info
----------------------------------------------
Perl executable: A:\PP\perl\bin\perl.exe
Perl version   : 5.24.2 / MSWin32-x64-multi-thread

A:\PP>A:\PP\perl\bin\perl.exe -e "use Tk";

A:\PP>A:\PP\perl\bin\perl.exe -e "use Tk::TableMatrix";

A:\PP>A:\PP\perl\bin\cpanm.exe PP
'A:\PP\perl\bin\cpanm.exe' is not recognized as an internal or externa
+l command,
operable program or batch file.

A:\PP>A:\PP\perl\bin\cpanm PP
! Finding PP on cpanmetadb failed.
--> Working on PP
Fetching http://backpan.perl.org/authors/id/L/LU/LUKKA/PDL-PP-0.010.ta
+r.gz ... OK
Configuring PDL-PP-0.010 ... N/A
! Configure failed for PDL-PP-0.010. See A:\PP\data\.cpanm\work\150082
+8689.4884\build.log for details.

A:\PP>A:\PP\perl\bin\cpanm PAR::Packer
--> Working on PAR::Packer
Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/R/RS/RSCHUPP/PAR-Packer-1.037.
+tar.gz ... OK
Configuring PAR-Packer-1.037 ... OK
Building and testing PAR-Packer-1.037 ...
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...but results were as before.