I really wish you success.

I can't be of much help because I can't spend much time with investigating Borland builds, but I will try to be helpful anyway, so feel free to ask.

(BTW from time to time I use BorlandC++ IDE to catch core dumps and then perform step-by-step debugging of perl code, it appears to be quite comfortable in Borland IDE)

Also, after reading README.win32 (there is some Borland wisdom there) you will notice that file ./win32/sync_ext.pl should be used when you're dealing with BC++ -- do not neglect it, otherwise you will have some files always recompiled when doing "dmake /target/".

Courage, the Cowardly Dog