The only error there (relatively hidden in the middle of the wall of output) is: 

syntax error at -e line 1, near "'755')
"
Missing right curly or square bracket at -e line 1, at end of line

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In context, that appears to be a problem with the parsing of the generated Makefile. It looks like nmake was run but the Makefile wasn't generated in a manner compatible with nmake. And given that it said to run "make ..." several places, that doesn't surprise me.

If I had gotten that output and wanted to get the module installed, my next step would be to follow this nugget of the instructions nestled in that wall of output: 

For those without 'make' or an equivalent like 'nmake' or 'dmake' ther
+e
are perl-only scripts which do the same things:
        Test with:    perl nomake_test
        Install with: perl nomake_install

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- tye        

In reply to Re^2: win32api::commport install fails (nuggets) by tye
in thread win32api::commport install fails by ccherri

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