I think there's an element of Module::Build bugginess involved here ... or perhaps it's the ActiveState/MinGW interaction that's buggy. You may also be better off using 'dmake' instead of 'mingw32-make' (http://search.cpan.org/dist/dmake/) though that alone won't solve the problem. (I am using 'dmake' and I get the same as you.)

Best I could come up with was to use this Makefile.PL:
use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;

WriteMakefile(
    'NAME'    => 'Devel::Caller',
    'VERSION_FROM' => 'lib/Devel/Caller.pm', # finds $VERSION
);

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Also you need to copy lib/Devel/Caller.xs up 2 levels (to the root directory of the source distro). Then run 'dmake clean' (or 'mingw32-make clean') to get back to a fresh installation. Then run 'perl Makefile.PL', 'dmake test', 'dmake install'. Some of the tests fail - same happens on my MinGW-built perl. And the output of 'dmake test' is a little nonsensical (and 'nmake test', too ... which is why the CPAN testers reckon it builds on Win32 ... though it doesn't). For a better understanding of which tests failed and which tests passed, run 'perl -Mblib t\Devel-Caller.t'

I see ActiveState have a ppm for Devel-Caller-Perl. Perhaps that's worth checking out.

Cheers,
Rob

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