Thank you Masem. I have a simple example working.

Anyone trying to get CPAN to work on win32 may need to fetch ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/nmake15.exe. Note this is an installer, not the the make replacement. Need to set the config option as Masem describes above.

Question: I had to do a force install because of errors I got due to the absence of getpwuid which isn't implemented on win32. What is this going to do to me?