Another option - it may not be suitable for you, but I've had good luck with "strawberry perl", its basically a bundle of appropriately-configured-perl, gcc, make, other tools and modules with the goal of providing a unix-like perl/CPAN experience on Win32.

i.e. you simply avoid the whole ppd thing and use CPAN directly on Win32.

Its labelled as experimental, but is working nicely for me at the moment.