in reply to compiling Perl on Win32 so I can use Inline::C

I strongly urge you to reexamine your assumption that you have to use C to do this task. Anything C can do, Perl can also do, and usually without dropping into XS. When it comes to binary data, pack and unpack are your friends. read and sysread are also very helpful, though standard file I/O can also be used if you set $/ to a number indicating how many bytes to read at a time.

Alternately, you can install Cygwin and just do it in Unix. :-)

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