Thanks. Sorry I didn't see this sooner.

I tried that first. So, after reading your note I searched the entire C: drive (where MinGW is installed).

I found another libsetupapi.a in C:\Perl-5.22.1-64\site\lib\auto\MinGW\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib

And specifying that does compile. Apparently Inline::C installs it there. But hardcoding a path makes this very unportable to another system.

So, the new question is: how do I get that path portably?

I can use Config; $Config{sitelibexp} for part of the way: 'C:\Perl-5.22.1-64\site\lib' (which also appears in @INC)

But this is magic: "\auto\MinGW\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib" There some pkg-config -like method for Perl...

For now, I use this expensive hack

use File::Find;
my $libpath;
my $incpath;

BEGIN {
    find( { wanted => sub { /^libsetupapi\.a$/i &&
                              ($libpath ||= $File::Find::dir);
                            /^setupapi\.h$/i &&
                              ($incpath ||= $File::Find::dir); },
            follow => 1, follow_skip => 2 }, @INC );
    die( "No MinGW libsetupapi $libpath $incpath\n" )
       unless( $libpath && $incpath );
}

use Inline( C => Config =>
            libs => "-L$libpath -lSetupAPI",
            INC => "-I$incpath",
);
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There must be a better way. Meantime, on to figuring out the mysteries of the Windoze APIs.