You should use the MinGW compiler with your ActivePerl-5.8.8. The results are much better:

t/Tie01....ok 1/71
t/Tie01....NOK 21/71#   Failed test 'check array fetch'
#   at t/Tie01.t line 73.
#          got: '2 b'
#     expected: 'a b c d e f g h i'

#   Failed test 'check array fetch'
t/Tie01....NOK 24/71#   at t/Tie01.t line 82.
#          got: '2 e'
#     expected: 'd e f d e f g h i'

t/Tie01....NOK 48/71#   Failed test 'check hash keys'
#   at t/Tie01.t line 134.
#          got: '3abc'
#     expected: 'abc'

#   Failed test 'unlink testfile'
t/Tie01....NOK 65/71#   at t/Tie01.t line 179.
# Looks like you failed 4 tests of 71.
t/Tie01....dubious
        Test returned status 4 (wstat 1024, 0x400)
DIED. FAILED tests 21, 24, 48, 65
        Failed 4/71 tests, 94.37% okay
t/Tie02....ok 1/26Thread 1 terminated abnormally: Can't use an undefin
+ed value as an ARRAY reference at C:\_32\comp\Thread-Tie-0.12\blib\li
+b/Thread/Tie/Array.pm
 (loaded on demand from offset 1939 for 176 bytes) line 75.
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at which point it hangs.

:-)

Cheers,
Rob