You were offered 2 other ways around the problem above. PodMaster showed you where and how to obtain a binary install for AS 5.6.1, and I explained in my update that there is no reason not to install the version from XML::XPath as the module itself in a pure perl module and doesn't need compiling, though if you don't have nmake, you might have to unpack and install the files manually. Obviously PodMaster's solution is easier.