Correct, I am using a binary distribution of perl. I could not get perl 5.8.0 to build on my cygwin system, so i picked up the binary distribution. HTML::Parser is the only module, thus far, that I have had problems building under 5.8.0 binaries on cygwin. The biggest problem I can see are the lines that read: 
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

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To me, that is the biggest concern: telling HTML::Parser that perl does in fact live at /usr/bin/perl.

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

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