I was trying to fix a small program written in Inline::C when I found out that Inline would no longer compile with my installation of Cygwin. Here's the relevant portion of the errror (I think):

s_add_pl_98b8.o   /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/cygwin/CORE/libperl5_6_1.a  
i see no perl executable around there
perl is required to build dynamic libraries

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That's odd because I definitely have Perl and I haven't updated it recently. Further, the file referred to in that first line (libperl5_6_1.a) definitely exists in that path. I tried to reinstall Inline 0.43 over the top of an old install, but I was getting the same error messages during make test, so I halted the install and have assumed that Inline, in fact, is not the problem. I've included the full out.make file text below (yes, it's ugly -- sorry 'bout that).

/usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/cygwin -I/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1
/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/ExtUtils/xsubpp  -typemap /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/Ex
+tUtils/typemap 
s_add_pl_98b8.xs > s_add_pl_98b8.xsc && mv s_add_pl_98b8.xsc s_add_pl_
+98b8.c
gcc -c -I/home/Ovid/inline -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -DHAS_SBRK_PROTO -fn
+o-strict-aliasing
-DUSEIMPORTLIB -O2   -DVERSION=\"0.00\" -DXS_VERSION=\"0.00\"  -I/usr/
+lib/perl5/5.6.1/cygwin/CORE 
s_add_pl_98b8.c
Running Mkbootstrap for s_add_pl_98b8 ()
chmod 644 s_add_pl_98b8.bs
rm -f blib/arch/auto/s_add_pl_98b8/s_add_pl_98b8.dll
LD_RUN_PATH="" ld2 -o blib/arch/auto/s_add_pl_98b8/s_add_pl_98b8.dll  
+-s -L/usr/local/lib
s_add_pl_98b8.o   /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/cygwin/CORE/libperl5_6_1.a  
i see no perl executable around there
perl is required to build dynamic libraries
go fetch one or build this one static
make: *** [blib/arch/auto/s_add_pl_98b8/s_add_pl_98b8.dll] Error 1

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Anyone know what I'm missing, or is there something else I should provide for debugging?

Cheers,
Ovid

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