Two of us finally managed to locate the missing executable (cl.exe), so the compiler now works. But now comes the semi-infinite loop of searching through the new error messages to try to determine why some include files cannot be found.
I know that I am a beginner with Inline and so forth (although not a perl beginner). But is installing a module and getting it running traditionally this difficult? Please forgive my frustration, but this is the end of the second day, with no apparent success. Thanks for all the help.