I guess your stated hatred for the platform you're working on prevented you from showing us what exact problems you're facing while installing Net::LibIDN. Most likely this is a problem of not having the prerequisites, like (likely) the libidn external library. But it's hard to know without knowing more specifics.

After Update:

Set up gcc environment - 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3)
...
'cc' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
__test1.c:1:18: idna.h: No such file or directory

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This seems to be a configuration problem with the module, because it seems to be hardcoded to use cc, a program which is not installed on your machine. Most likely you can fix that by replacing every instance of cc by $Config{cc}, which for your installation likely should be gcc or gcc.exe.

But that seems not to be all, because something somewhere seems to find your gcc, which then complains about idna.h not being found. So maybe you don't have either the environment variables for your C compiler set up to also include the paths of the headers and library files ($ENV{INCLUDE}, $ENV{LIB}), or you don't have these.

As Net::LibIDN is under the Artistic License, it's unlikely that it includes the libidn libraries.

In reply to Re: Net::LibIDN in Windows, is it possible? by Corion
in thread Net::LibIDN in Windows, is it possible? by wilsond

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