Or you could take the Ghetto-Fabulous route and do it by hand with Notepad.
Run Notepad
Drag the "Zone.vcproj" file into notepad
Edit -> Find
Type "Release|Win32" to find the right section.
Scroll down a few lines to the PreprocessorDefinitions area.
Just type in EMBPERL, EMBPERL_PLUGIN in the preproc line:
Code:
PreprocessorDefinitions="EMBPERL,EMBPERL_PLUGIN,SHAREMEM,CATCH_CRASH.... blah blah blah
Save the file.
Open it up again in VS.NET
Select "Release" from the drop down list box in the toolbar
Add the perl .cpp and .h files to your project
Compile zone.exe with Perl support.
Praise Jesus.
(this assumes you installed Perl and IO::Scalars, and followed one of those "How to setup emu server 5.x" posts showing you which .h and libs to include in your project. Plenty of posts here with info on how to do that)