Apache / mod_perl / Perl under Windows

Hi.

Can someone help clearing my confusion (again) as to what kind of Apache / mod_perl / Perl 
combination works under Windows (32-bit and 64-bit) ?

I thank Steve Hay many times for providing numerous versions of mod_perl for numerous 
versions of platforms and numerous versions of Active and Strawberry Perl.

And I finally managed to have the following combination working under Windows server 2008 
64-bit R2 :
- Apache 2.2 from : http://www.apachelounge.com/download/win64/binaries/httpd-2.2.29-win64.zip

- ActivePerl 5.18.4.1804 from : 
http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/downloads/thank-you?dl=http://downloads.activestate.com/ActivePerl/releases/5.18.4.1804/ActivePerl-5.18.4.1804-MSWin32-x64-298913.msi

- mod_perl 2.0.8 from : 
http://people.apache.org/~stevehay/mod_perl-2.0.8-activeperl-5.18.4.1803-x64.zip

but before that, I spent most of a day fighting with various versions of all the above and 
obscure Windows error messages ranging from "the application is not a Win32 application" 
to "the Service started but terminated unexpectedly" to .. nothing.

One problem was (I suppose, but finally I am totally unsure of) that I initially tried to 
use a Strawberry Perl (which seems to tell me that it is compiled with gcc), but could 
never find an Apache 2.2 binary similarly compiled with gcc.
Anyway, I am quite confused now again as to what must match what.

Grateful for any insight.

André