Download and use CamelPack. More discussion can be found in Towards a no-fuss end-user-level distribution of Perl for Windows. Re: Towards a no-fuss end-user-level distribution of Perl for Windows gives the step-by-step setup. (It's only 3 steps!) After you install it, you can just use the cpan command to download and install CPAN modules. That's all there is to it, and it gives you everything you need.