XAMPP does provide perl. I know they do, because they say so on their website:
The distribution for Windows 98, NT, 2000 and XP. This version contains: Apache, MySQL, PHP + PEAR, Perl, mod_php, mod_perl, mod_ssl, OpenSSL, phpMyAdmin, Webalizer, Mercury Mail Transport System for Win32 and NetWare Systems v3.32, JpGraph, FileZilla FTP Server, mcrypt, eAccelerator, SQLite, and WEB-DAV + mod_auth_mysql.
Apparently, they also provide add-ons with DBI/dbd::mysql. Or maybe that's included in the base install. Not sure.
If you're on windows, xampp might be a good way of getting precompiled binaries for everything involved. On most unix/linux systems you can usually get all the tools from your system distributer - or at least you should get a decent C compiler so you can compile everything yourself.
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