In your perl/lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm you should have: 
sub init_DIRFILESEP {
    my($self) = shift;

    # The ^ makes sure its not interpreted as an escape in nmake
    $self->{DIRFILESEP} = $NMAKE ? '^\\' :
                          $DMAKE ? '\\\\'
                                 : '\\';
}

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Change the code so that it is as above, and see if that fixes things. (Remove the existing Makefile and start with 'perl Makefile.PL' again.) The fact that you have '^\' leads me to believe that ActivePerl is probably finding 'nmake' - and writing a Makefile that is compatible with 'nmake', not 'dmake'. ActivePerl will accept either - it will wrtite a Makefile suited to the one that it finds first when searching the path environment variable. Both 'nmake' and 'dmake' should work fine with the MinGW compiler on ActiveState perl, so it shouldn't really matter which is found first. (As I've mentioned elsewhere, my personal preference is 'dmake' - but feel free to stick with 'nmake' if you like.) But if ActivePerl has written a Makefile to be used with 'nmake' then you can't build using 'dmake' - and if the Makefile has been written for use with 'dmake' then you can't use 'nmake'.

To verify precisely which flavour of make is being found, run: 
perl -V:make

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That will tell you which 'make' utility you need to use.
Let us know if that still doesn't work.

Cheers,
Rob Update:Rewritten .... to be hopefully a little clearer and more to the point

In reply to Re^7: how to install perlmodules in windowsXP by syphilis
in thread how to install perlmodules in windowsXP by veeruch

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