I have no experience in compiling perl. However, I find that your statement of "I'm processing binary data" sets off a trigger with me. Perl has facilities for dealing with binary data. I've written a couple of modules at work to do just that. You don't need C to do this, so if that's your only reason for this trek, perhaps you could pose your problem for the monks at large to answer...

thor

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In reply to Re: compiling Perl on Win32 so I can use Inline::C by thor
in thread compiling Perl on Win32 so I can use Inline::C by diana

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