> man for Windows, or woman.el. Also, it needs man pages installed, so I need to build those

No not necessarily, you can make perl build the nroff in a buffer and tell woman to render it

Here a minimal solution (I'm still an amateur with elisp)

to try:

• paste the function into *scratch*
• type C-x C-e behind the last bracket to eval it

to keep:

• copy this code to your .emacs config
• create a keybinding if needed

usage:

• M-x perldoc-woman will ask for the Pod's name
• typing "Moose" + <RET> will display Moose

NB: imenu will display jump-marks

(defun perldoc-woman (target)
     "perldoc displayed via woman"
   (interactive "sPod: ")
   (let* (
         (buffer-name (concat "*perldoc-" target "*"))
         (perl-cmd
               (concat "perldoc -MPod::Man " target))
         )

     (require 'woman)
     (switch-to-buffer (get-buffer-create buffer-name))
     (erase-buffer)
     (shell-command perl-cmd 1)
     (woman-process-buffer)

     (list buffer-name perl-cmd) ;dbg
     )
   )
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Caveat: navigation to other PODs like referenced Modules by clicking/return doesn't work yet, I'm ignorant about a way to hook into woman for that.

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