I tried using perl510 that comes with Xampp but it does not come with PPM (Pearl Packet Manager) so I could not do the PPM installs. It did compile nicely tho.
Using Activeperl 5.12 worked nicely after following your advice and doing a find/replace on the source for "perl510.lib" and replacing with "perl512.lib". I am using a server I compiled the binaries with this way. Thanks for your help with that.
It stands to reason that I should be able to do the same with Perl 5.14 so I will try that next just to see if it works but I am not in any rush right now since my server is up and running!
Thanks again Andrew80k and everyone else for the support.
Next I want to get the peqphpeditor up and running so I can fix a few minor things like putting backpacks on the Merchant in the tutorialb zone and on some merchants in PoK.