OK, I know that ActiveState provide builds for this platform, but the underlying perl build on my target machine is not one that AS supplied, but one that came with Solaris, hence PPM is not an option

How so? Sure, AS might not make binaires for you, so all that means is that you have to make binaries for you. You know how your perl was built, so duplicate the build environment, and build the extensions, and make the PPM packages. Many-a-monk do this.

As for dependencies, the question has come up a few times here on perlmonks, so do a search. The following modules should be of interest: Module::Dependency, Module::ScanDeps, Module::CoreList, Module::Info, ExtUtils::Installed, ExtUtils::Install

MJD says you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo! I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6x+5.8x. I take requests. ** The Third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.