use Module::Build; my $build = Module::Build->new( module_name => 'Text::WordDiff', license => 'perl', create_makefile_pl => 'passthrough', create_readme => 1, configure_requires => { 'Module::Build' => '0.2701' }, recommends => { 'Test::Pod' => '1.20' }, requires => { Algorithm::Diff => '1.19', Term::ANSIColor => '0', HTML::Entities => '0', }, build_requires => { 'Module::Build' => '0.2701', 'Test::More' => '0.17', 'File::Spec' => '0', }, ); $build->create_build_script;