The SDK kit will install it's pre-packaged Perl version.
If you don't mind breaking out of official support, you can just copy the VMware Perl libs to your Perl path and manually install the dependencies listed in the install guide for the Perl SDK.
None of the Perl modules have any C library dependencies (at least not directly). So the modules are simple Perl source that can be copied into any Perl environment. There may be some compatibility issues, but I've used the Perl SDK in this manner for years without any significant issues (on OS X, Windows and Linux).
