Okay. I pulled ActiveTcl and installed without problems. Making Tcl/Tk went further, but: 

c:\Perl\packages\Tcl-Tk-0.92>makefile
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Warning: prerequisite Tcl 0.85 not found.
Writing Makefile for Tcl::Tk

c:\Perl\packages\Tcl-Tk-0.92>nmake

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 7.00.9466
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

cp lib/Tcl/Tk.pm blib\lib\Tcl\Tk.pm
cp lib/Tcl/Tk/Widget/Balloon.pm blib\lib\Tcl\Tk\Widget\Balloon.pm

c:\Perl\packages\Tcl-Tk-0.92>nmake test

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 7.00.9466
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

        C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_
t\after.........Can't locate Tcl.pm in @INC (@INC contains: C:\Per
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:\Perl\packages\Tcl-Tk-0.92\
Compilation failed in require at t\after.t line 4.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at t\after.t line 4.
t\after.........dubious
        Test returned status 2 (wstat 512, 0x200)

[clipped lots more failling tests]

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what is " Tcl 0.85"? Is this another perl package? Or should it be satisfied by the ActiveTcl iinstallation meaning I've got a path/env problem?

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