Problem installing HTML::Form

KyussRyn has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Ok I am very new to Perl and am trying to install HTML::Form. So I copied the module from http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/libwww-perl-5.837/ to c:\XXX\libwww-perl-5.837. I then went to the DOS prompt and did wrote the command "perl Makefile.PL", and got a 'Makefile' file in the same directory. I then ran "nmake" from the command prompt and got:

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 9.00.21022.08
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporatio. All rights reserved.

syntax Error at -e line 1, near "'755')
"
MIssing right curly or square bracket at -e line 1, at end of line
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
NMAKE: fatal error u1077: 'C:\perl\perl\bin\perl.exe' : return code '0
+xff' Stop.
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I am using StrawberryPerl version 5.12.1 built for MSWIN32-x86-multi-thread. I would use CPAN to install this if I knew how, so if someone knows the command line to do this I would appreciate learning this. I read the install tutorials as well and haven't figured it out from those either. Thanks in advance for any help.

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Re: Problem installing HTML::Form by Corion (Patriarch) on Dec 21, 2010 at 07:45 UTC
Strawberry Perl does not use `nmake.exe`. It uses `dmake.exe` (that already comes with it). Most likely, you just want to use the all-in-one `cpan` command to install a module: `> cpan LWP::UserAgent` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Problem installing HTML::Form by Anonymous Monk on Dec 21, 2010 at 07:46 UTC
This is true for strawberyperl `$ perl -V:make make='dmake';` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Problem installing HTML::Form by chorny (Scribe) on Dec 21, 2010 at 20:18 UTC
From command line: `cpan HTML::Form` [download] Or Start button/Programs/Strawberry Perl/CPAN client `install HTML::Form` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Problem installing HTML::Form by KyussRyn (Acolyte) on Dec 22, 2010 at 04:20 UTC
Thank you all for your replies. I feel like such a tool missing the DMAKE command. Now I just need to find a good tutorial on using this HTML:Form module :)	[reply]