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in reply to A Guide to Installing Modules

nmake not working for you? you probably need to use dmake, or make, it all depends on what perl -V:make prints

You can override choice ($Config::Config{make}) of makefile ExtUtils::MakeMaker generates by using

perl Makefile.PL make=dmake perl Makefile.PL make=nmake