I found a fix:
In Makefile.PL one needs to change the line that reads:

'LIBS'                => [ ":nosearch ${inetlib}.lib" ],
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to read instead

'LIBS'                => [ ":nosearch ${inetlib}.lib $Config{libs}" ],
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Which sort of fixes it. I doubt I am rather curing the symptom instead of the actual illness though.
Cheers,
alf

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