Windows based Apache/PHP/Perl/database stacks

Windows based Apache/PHP/Perl/database stacks Does anyone know if XAMPP's Perl also provides Tk support? Does anyone know of a similar stack which provides PostresSQL in addition to/instead of MySQL? I'd like this to run on Win 7 and XP.
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"Having not received any answers, I'll supply one based on my experiences. At this stage, this is somewhat preliminary, as I've not had a lot of free time to resolve all the issues I've encountered.

I didn't find any distributions which had Apache, PHP, Perl, and PostgreSQL (which I want because that's what we use at work), so I downloaded and installed XAMPP.

It turns out that XAMPP does not distribute Tk (understandable, since I wouldn't expect that to be useful for web stuff). I did grab Tk from CPAN; however, I only found source. The build files which come with Tk expect a Microsoft C compiler & make system. I have Visual Studio C++ (Express), which includes nmake and the cl compiler. Unfortunately, Visual Studio doesn't pre-configure itself for command line use. At this point, I'm still working through issues to get that to run so I can build and use Tk.

Eventually I hope to download & install PostgreSQL.

More if/when I get things working."