Here's a useful example of how to zip a Windows directory and all subdirectories and gif files, while keeping the original directory structure:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

use Archive::Zip qw/ :ERROR_CODES :CONSTANTS/;

my $maindir = 'C:\StuffToZip';
my $zipfile = 'backup.zip';

my $zip = Archive::Zip->new();

opendir(MAINDIR, $maindir) or die "Can't open $maindir: $!";
my @folders = readdir(MAINDIR);
foreach (@folders) {
    next if $_ =~ /^\./;
    if (-d "$maindir\\$_") {
        &zip("$_", "$maindir\\$_");
    }
    else {
        print "Error reading $maindir\\$_\n";
    }
}

$zip->writeToFileNamed($zipfile) == AZ_OK or die "Can't write >$zipfil
+e<: $!\n";

closedir MAINDIR;

sub zip {
    my $type        = shift;
    my $dir         = shift;
      #Adds all subdirectories under $maindir and any gif files found
        $zip->addTreeMatching( "$dir", "$type", '\.gif$' );
}
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Hope it helps. Cheers