use Module::Build; my $build = Module::Build->new( module_name => 'Text::WordDiff', license => 'perl', requires => { Algorithm::Diff => '1.19', Term::ANSIColor => '0', HTML::Entities => '0', }, build_requires => { Test::Simple => '0.17', File::Spec => '0', }, create_makefile_pl => 'passthrough', create_readme => 1, ); $build->create_build_script;