You can do as Lerxst suggested, wait for someone to fix the Visual Studio 2008 compile or use Visual Studio 2010.

http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/showthread.php?t=35722

I may not be able to get to it right away. But the reason why compiles 'broke' is because in World and Zone, there was pragma comments in the source telling the Windows compiler (VS) to use perl510.lib from the includes based on the toolset you were using. It makes more sense just to set them in the compiler rather than in the source considering Linux and Windows both use the same thing. Also, people use different version of Perl so you might as well let people set it in the compiler instead of in the source.

When I followed the installing instructions on page one, Perl installed without ever having a chance to enter the commands at the prompt as told to in the instructions.

Talking about this part..

3. Now install the Perl 5.10 (1007). Type yes to everything BUT There will be
one question that has C:\Perl in it. That question requires you to enter
that path as the answer. So just type c:\perl (YOU HAVE TO REBOOT FOR NEXT STEP)
After you rebooted, open command prompt and type the following (one at a time and
wait for it to finish):
ppm install DBI
ppm install IO-stringy

Once I entered in C:\Perl it again just had me keep typing yes, then when it was done installing the command prompt closed. Did I miss something?

During the step backing up the database, can someone tell me what size it should be or at least the average size of the backup?