I installed perl as seen below. I than ran my configre and make install from the same prompt that you see below. However I still get the error message.
$ perl --version
This is perl, v5.8.7 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread (with 7 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)
Copyright 1987-2005, Larry Wall
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