For installing this module what you can do is simply to execute the following commands: % perl Makefile.PL % make % make test % make install If a test fails, try the following: % make test TEST_VERBOSE=1 TEST_LOG=1 On a windows system, you can use the pmake wich is a make written in perl, available on the CPAN. Without "make" you can write something like this: % perl -It -Ilib -MDevel::TraceLoad t/all.t