What confuses me is this. If I change eval 'use AxKit' to your example of eval {require 'AxKit'}; ... all is well.
That's a partial lie...
eval {require 'AxKit'};
yields:
Can't locate AxKit in @INC (@INC contains: C:/Development/Perl/584/lib C:/Development/Perl/584/site/lib .) at Makefile.PL line 16.
even though AxKit is installed, and used just fine within the tests... :-(
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