This thread mirrors my own frustrations trying to compile modules for ActivePerl. I've mostly just given up in disgust. But, given that cygwin is a potential solution, a couple followup questions come to mind:

I've ported several ActivePerl programs to Windows machines lacking Perl using perl2exe. Just one executable and maybe a dll are all that need to be transferred. It's a simple, nearly flawless procedure. I've also ported Tcl programs written for cygwin to other Windows machines, and the process was very messy by contrast, requiring an installation of cygwin and numerous other files. How would this play out with Perl/cygwin? Could I still use perl2exe, or would I have to install Perl/cygwin on the target machine?

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