INSTALLATION WITH ACTIVE PERL AND MS VC++ ----------------------------------------- The installation has been tested using Active Perl 5.6. First, correctly install ActivePerl. If you own MS VC++ you have everything you need, otherwise get nmake now from ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/nmake15.exe and install it in your path. Now the usual procedure perl Makefile.PL nmake nmake install should work We also suggest installing the Term::ReadLine::Perl (or if you have Cygwin - Term::ReadLine::Gnu) module, though it will have limited functionality as Term::ReadKey which ReadLine::Perl relies on does not compile on Windows with VC++. We can only urge you to get Cygwin, so ReadLine::Gnu runs. You can start the perl shell now using 'psh' INSTALLATION WITH NORMAL PERL ----------------------------- You will need the libwin32 bundle from CPAN in case you do not have ActivePerl. INSTALLING WITHOUT MAKE/NMAKE ----------------------------- Assuming perl is in your %PATH% and you are in the directory containing the psh script, try perl -Ilib psh You can manually move the modules into your lib directory and create a .BAT or .CMD file executing the perl shell with the above command