Uhmmm. I tried my example from below under WinXP, MSVC++6 (SP6) (VStudio 98),
Perl 5.8.8 (Activestate) and Inline V.0.44 (from Activestate ppm repository).
I didn't have the slightest problems. The only "nonstandard" thing I did
from M.S. and put it somwhere into the PATH.