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in reply to Re^3: PPM missing in ActiveState 5.28 trying to install IMage::Magick
in thread PPM missing in ActiveState 5.28 trying to install IMage::Magick

ActiveState does not ship with a c compiler or build tools, you need to install them yourself or via ppm MinGW, which brings us back to the whole ppm issue. Save yourself a lot of time and potential headache, just install Strawberry, which does ship with a sane development environment of of the box.