use Module::Build; my $build = Module::Build->new ( module_name => 'activitymail', license => 'perl', create_makefile_pl => 'passthrough', script_files => [ 'bin/activitymail' ], dist_version_from => 'bin/activitymail', pm_files => {}, requires => { Getopt::Std => 0, File::Basename => 0, }, recommends => { File::Spec => 0, HTML::Entities => 0, URI::Escape => 0, }, ); $build->create_build_script;