Rob,
Well, the ActiveState and MinGW integration is a work in progress. I emailed Jan Dubois yesterday after bart and Intrepid tracked down the bug and a patch to ActivePerl has already been made and will be reflected in build 818. Here is the patch Jan applied: 
@@ -112,12 +112,16 @@
           _override("_o",        ".o");
           _override("obj_ext",   ".o");
           _override("optimize",  "-O2");
-          _override("lddlflags", "-mdll");
           _override("i64type",   "long long");
           _override("u64type",   "unsigned long long");
           _override("quadtype",  "long long");
           _override("uquadtype", "unsigned long long");
           _override("d_casti32", "define");
+
+          # Extract all library paths from lddlflags
+          my @libpaths = map "-L$_", map /^-libpath:(.+)/,
+              _orig_conf("lddlflags") =~ /(?=\S)(?>[^"\s]+|"[^"]*")+/
+g;
+          _override("lddlflags", join(" ", "-mdll", @libpaths));
         }
     }
     elsif ($^O eq 'darwin') {

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So with responsiveness like that, I have hopes for ActivePerl and MinGW. I am frustrated by the fact that I can't remember what other customization I have had problems with in the past and just fixed my local copy - I should have emailed that too.

Cheers - L~R

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