Hi wcruz,

"I use active state (I think) perl 5.8.6"

Running perl -v will display information about the build of perl, or try perl -V for much more information.

Do you have a c compiler and the required build tools setup? I notice you did not use ppm to install this. See Where is the Windows binary version? from the PAR::FAQ.

Alternatively you could look at using either CamelPack or Strawberry Perl, find out more at http://win32.perl.org.

Hope this helps

Martin