"Probably" doesn't really help here. Pasting in the error message in <code></code> tags would.

Either way, if it is a compilation issue, it's likely the necessary tools weren't installed, or at least not in your PATH environment variable correctly.

Please let us know which Perl installation you went with. Strawberry Perl should install everything you need by default. Also, at the command line, type echo %PATH% and paste (again, in code tags) the output from that command.