Could you please tell us the output of perl -V on your platform? It is very hard to tell what is going on given your information (e.g., where is your perl really?).

You could try looking up the necessary keys in the registry, and try to change that. Also, in the ExtUtils::MakeMaker documentation they mention some variables that can be used to customize which libraries and executables are used to build a module.

I suspect that inside the Makefile.PL there is code that calls an external command via the shell (and this won't necessarily have the right environment variables set, since it might not execute your autoexec.bat). I don't know much about Win98, since I am nearly always working on WinNT - are there ways to set environment variables for the whole system, and not just for the current user - ways that don't rely on execution of an autoexec.bat file? Then I'd suggest to try that.

Christian Lemburg
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