How2 - create a PPM distribution - 0.2 might be interesting for you... and also HowTo build and distribute a PPMed module for Win32

It seems Tk::WinPhoto is part of the Tk bundle. If you grab that from CPAN there is a readme file for ActiveState in there that reads:

Tk800.013 has been built by the author using ActivePerl
from ActiveState's APi509e.exe.

You need Visual C++ (Mine is version 6.0 - Professional Edition).

When you install ActivePerl, it provides patched C runtime as PerlCRT.
+dll
which it installs in the "system32" directory.
This needs "administrator" rights on NT.

It also provides the import library PerlCRT.lib, but this is installed
in an odd location e.g. C:\ActivePerl\lib\CORE\PerlCRT.lib
where it is not found by MakeMaker or VC++.
I copied it to C:\VisualStudio\VC98\lib\PerlCRT.lib
(Your paths may vary dependinh where you installed ActivePerl and VC++
+.)

Once that is done:

perl Makefile.PL
nmake
nmake test
nmake install_perl

Works as expected.

With prior verions of ActivePerl and Tk it has been necessary with
some versions of VC++ to downgrade "optimization"; from -O2 that
ActivePerl suggests, to -Od.  This does not _seem_ to be required this
time.
[download]

Now, you may be able to get away without using Visual Studio, by downloading the (free) Platform SDK from Microsoft that includes nmake.

The latest (precompiled) Tk ppm package is available at the bribes repository (you can include it (together with many others) in your local ppm repositories list through PPM::Repositories).

But unfortunately (and strangely), despite the above mentioned Tk ppm package is in synch with the latest Tk version available on CPAN (804.027 at the time of this writing), it does not include the Tk::WinPhoto module. I can just guess that this is because Tk::WinPhoto does not work properly or it even does not compile on Windows (in the ppm Tk POD it says that Tk::WinPhoto is considered an experimental module).

Ciao,
Emanuele.