I'm trying to install HTTP::Parser on my cygwin system and it says that it cannot find perl. I'm running perl-5.8.0 with the latest modules on a cygwin (win2k) platform, and I get the error: 
Do you want decoding on unicode entities? [no] 
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for HTML::Parser
cp lib/HTML/PullParser.pm blib/lib/HTML/PullParser.pm
cp lib/HTML/Entities.pm blib/lib/HTML/Entities.pm
cp Parser.pm blib/lib/HTML/Parser.pm
cp lib/HTML/LinkExtor.pm blib/lib/HTML/LinkExtor.pm
cp lib/HTML/TokeParser.pm blib/lib/HTML/TokeParser.pm
cp lib/HTML/HeadParser.pm blib/lib/HTML/HeadParser.pm
cp lib/HTML/Filter.pm blib/lib/HTML/Filter.pm
/usr/bin/perl.exe /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/ExtUtils/xsubpp  -typemap /usr/
+lib/perl5/5.8.0/ExtUtils/typemap -typemap typemap  Parser.xs > Parser
+.xsc && mv Parser.xsc Parser.c
/usr/bin/perl.exe mkhctype >hctype.h
/usr/bin/perl.exe mkpfunc >pfunc.h
gcc -c   -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -fno-strict-aliasing -DUSEIMPORTLIB -O
+2   -DVERSION=\"3.26\" -DXS_VERSION=\"3.26\"  "-I/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0
+/cygwin-multi-64int/CORE"  -DMARKED_SECTION Parser.c
Running Mkbootstrap for HTML::Parser ()
chmod 644 Parser.bs
rm -f blib/arch/auto/HTML/Parser/Parser.dll
LD_RUN_PATH="" ld2  -s -L/usr/local/lib Parser.o  -o blib/arch/auto/HT
+ML/Parser/Parser.dll  /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/cygwin-multi-64int/CORE/li
+bperl.dll.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/HTML/Parser/Parser.dll] Error 1
  /usr/bin/make  -- NOT OK
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  make had returned bad status, install seems impossible

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In reply to Problem building HTTP::Parser under 5.8/cygwin by peschkaj

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