I installed DWIMPerl on my Windows 64bit machine, and it seems that it came pre-installed with DBI and DBD::mysql. Then I went on to install MySQL Server 5.5. Then using a Perl script, I tried to list all the drivers and data sources. But it doesn't show the mysql databases:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use DBI;

print "Available DBI Drivers and Data Sources:\n\n";
my @drivers = DBI->available_drivers('quiet');
my @sources;

foreach my $driver (@drivers) {
    print "$driver\n";
    @sources = eval { DBI->data_sources($driver) };
    if($@) {
        print "\tError: ",substr($@,0,60),"\n";
    } elsif (@sources) {
        foreach(@sources) {
            print "\t$_\n";
        }
    } else {
        print "\tNo known data sources\n";
    }
}
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The script generated this output:

Available DBI Drivers and Data Sources:

ADO
        No known data sources
DBM
        DBI:DBM:f_dir=.
ExampleP
        dbi:ExampleP:dir=.
File
        DBI:File:f_dir=.
Gofer
        No known data sources
ODBC
        dbi:ODBC:dBASE Files
        dbi:ODBC:Excel Files
        dbi:ODBC:MS Access Database
Pg
        No known data sources
Proxy
        Error: install_driver(Proxy) failed: Can't locate RPC/PlClient
+.pm i
SQLite
        No known data sources
Sponge
        No known data sources
mysql
        No known data sources
Press any key to continue . . .
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And the  mysql> show databases; on the same machine shows this:

mysql> show databases;
+--------------------+
| Database           |
+--------------------+
| information_schema |
| mysql              |
| performance_schema |
| test               |
+--------------------+
4 rows in set (0.00 sec)
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