Another way to get at a MS C compiler is to look for the bundled Teaching Edition of MSVC 6 - it comes for about 20$ together with some (bad) books about C++, that's where I got my version of MSVC from. I needed it because I didn't want to spend time hunting compiled versions - now I spend time hunting down a gcc crosscompiler for Win32->Solaris, resp. the Solaris header files :-))

perl -MHTTP::Daemon -MHTTP::Response -MLWP::Simple -e ' ;    # The  
$d = new HTTP::Daemon and fork and getprint $d->url and exit;#spider
($c = $d->accept())->get_request(); $c->send_response( new   #in the
HTTP::Response(200,$_,$_,qq(Just another Perl hacker\n))); ' #  web
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