We're trying to deploy a Perl environment out to numerous test platforms that will be running Windows/Linux/Solaris and Dos. The 2 real OSes (And Windows) will use multiple architectures to complicate things.

Windows is currently the long pole since it doesn't come with a compiler and mingw/dmake/etc aren't working real well for us. PPM from activestate doesn't have all the modules that cpan does (IE not seeing HTTP::Daemon)

What suggestions does everyone have to this problem? IE how would you deploy perl and numerous cpan modules to windows x86/x86_64/ia64, Linux x86/x86_64/ia64/ppc, Solaris sparc/x86/x86_64 and Dos? Dos can be left out since its a special case.

We're also wanting an automated install so testers do not need to configure much of anything other than installing Perl.

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