use Module::Build; my $build = Module::Build->new( module_name => 'Text::Diff::HTML', license => 'perl', create_makefile_pl => 'passthrough', create_readme => 1, configure_requires => { 'Module::Build' => '0.2701' }, recommends => { 'Test::Pod' => '1.20' }, build_requires => { 'Test::More' => '0.17', 'Module::Build' => '0.2701', }, requires => { Text::Diff => '0.11', HTML::Entities => '0', }, ); $build->create_build_script;