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This came up just recently in another thread..Re: Problem installing modules on Windows 7 64bit build (Active Perl 2.12.4) There is no 64 bit port of MinGW yet.
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Re^2: Installing CPAN module under Win7x64
by syphilis (Archbishop) on Nov 12, 2011 at 14:52 UTC
    There is no 64 bit port of MinGW yet

    That's not quite right - there's a 64 bit port of the MinGW compiler available, but if you want to use it with ActivePerl you need to also install ExtUtils::FakeConfig.

    Cheers,
    Rob
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Re^2: Installing CPAN module under Win7x64
by marto (Cardinal) on Nov 12, 2011 at 17:08 UTC
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