ExtUtils::MakeMaker might be able to do that, but I know that in the perl source, in the win32 nmake makefile it's done pretty much by hand, since the makefile was written by hand (or so it appears).

Anyway, I just downloaded Font-TTF-0.32 and did "the make dance" without encountering the problem you describe.

I then looked a little closer, and noticed a "setup.bat", which used "pmake.bat", so I ran that, and still things went well.

I'm guessing you were using some older version.

I'm on Win2000 here.

update:

perl - C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\arial.ttf C:\WINNT\Fonts\arial.ttf
use strict;
use Font::TTF::Font;
use Data::Dumper;

for $ARGV(@ARGV) {
    my $f = Font::TTF::Font->open($ARGV)
        or warn "couldn't open $ARGV $!" and next;
#    print Dumper $f;
    print "say what now? ", $f->{'hmtx'}->read->{'advance'}[0x0020];
}

__END__
couldn't open C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\arial.ttf No such file or directory at 
+- line 6.
say what now? 1196
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______crazyinsomniac_____________________________ Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most. perl -e "$q=$_;map({chr unpack qq;H*;,$_}split(q;;,q*H*));print;$q/$q;"

p.s. just in case someone doesn't
know how to run the Perl Package Manager:
in Win32 command prompt type "ppm"

update:
then type "install Font-TTF"
If the module is available
it will install.
Type "help" for more options.
ppm is cpan equiv for Win32.
There is also a ppm3 available with some
ActiveState Perl versions.
me, i've always used ppm.