Math::Random is a perl module that comes in two halves - a .pm file and a compiled bit, which on Windows will be stored as four files: .bs, .exp, .dll, and .lib. These are generally in a subdirectory of your perl install called "auto". I suspect that you didn't install Math::Random properly on this machine, but just copied the .pm over from another machine. That's not enough - either install the module properly, or catch all the files sitting under auto/Math/Random on this first machine.

I suspect that you may have not installed this module properly because you don't have a working C compiler on the target machine, a common issue with Windows that prevents much of the CPAN magic from working. However, if you've installed ActivePerl from the ActiveState people, then there's an easy way to install Math::Random properly: use ActiveState's ppm utility. Open a cmd box and type "ppm3". Then, at the prompt say "install Math::Random". If you get back a list of several different packages, you can install the one you want by saying "install 1". This will download a precompiled version of Math::Random from Activestate's website, with all necessary files.

Other people also maintain ActiveState ppm repositories; you can add them too if you need a module which ActiveState hasn't got available. 

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