1. You can install 32-bit AS 5.8 on a 64-bit Windows and it runs just fine.
  2. If you actually need a 64-bit Perl, get 5.10.

    There are 12000+ 64-bit packages available from AS for 5.10 64-bit: 

    ppm> repo
name ActiveState Package Repository 
ppm> search *
    1: ABI 1.0
    2: ACH 0.01
    3: ACH-Builder 0.03
    4: ACH-Generator 0.01
    5: ACH-Parser 0.01
    6: ACME-Error 0.03
    7: ACME-Error-31337 0.01
...
12443: with 0.02
12444: xcruciate 011
12445: xcruciate-combined 007
12446: xcruciate-unitconfig 006
12447: xcruciate-utils 006
12448: xcruciate-xcruciateconfig 006
12449: xdbfdump 0.03
12450: xisofs 1.3
12451: xml-rax 0.01
12452: xmlrpc-pureperl 0.01
12453: xmlwww 1.0
12454: xslt-parser 0.13
12455: your 1.00

    [download]

Not all the ones you'd like, but most.

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In reply to Re: Installing Perl modules on Win64/Perl 5.8 by BrowserUk
in thread Installing Perl modules on Win64/Perl 5.8 by lintunen

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