I tried with 5.8.x version of Perl and got the same message as well. But using the XAMPP package in the site http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html#641 I could very easily install all the packages. Actually it installs almost all the packages of Perl along with MySQL, Perl, Apache...
Hi matrixfan083,
I too am getting the same error when I try to install DBD::MySQL. Have you got it solved? If so can you please share with me how you solved the problem?
PVL