Thanks Rob. Indeed there was a missing module and I was led astray by dated belief that the Inline package still included Inline::C - a belief reinforced by the absence of an Inline::C installable package in Activestate's PPM repository. There was also a requirement to install MinGW and Parse-RecDescent. I'm still investigating a build error but at least it's an error trying to build with C: 
Set up gcc environment - 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3)
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+!!
ERROR: Cannot copy 'C:\Perl\html\Active.css' to '\Active.css': No such
+ file or directory
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+!!
 at -e line 1.
Installing \Active.css
dmake.exe:  Error code 130, while making 'pure_site_install'

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In reply to Re^2: Defining the C environment for "inline::c" by murrayn
in thread Defining the C environment for "inline::c" by murrayn

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