I've been a good novice and done as the wise ones said (or sort of anyway). I went back and ran "cpan install Inline::C" and got a nice clean result. C.pm and C.pod are also in my Inline directory now and my "Hello world" application runs from the command line but not from my Eclipse environment where it's stored in the "...\Perl<space>Code\..." directory path. If I try to run a Perl script with Inline C code from inside that directory path the build function tries to copy resources into the C: root directory and fails as described above. If I move my script into something with properly named directories everything seems to be happy. Clearly, Bill Gates is not the Messiah!, he's a very naughty boy for allowing silly file and directory names! Thanks for all the help. Time for an attempt at a real project!

In reply to Re^6: Defining the C environment for "inline::c" by murrayn
in thread Defining the C environment for "inline::c" by murrayn

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