note Anonymous Monk <p> It uses <c> perl -V:make </c> by default, but if you install MinGW it ought to try to run dmake <c> ppm install MinGW dmake cpan Net::POP3 </c> <p> To force the issue you'd run <c> perl Makefile.PL make=dmake </c> <p> You can configure cpan/cpanp ... see [doc://ExtUtils::MakeMaker#PERL_MM_OPT|PERL_MM_OPT], [doc://Module::Build#PERL_MB_OPT] 997545 997545 11