in reply to trouble installing Catalyst helper Authentication::CDBI on windows (cl fails)

CL is the microsoft compiler frontend. It's available in the (free) MS visual C toolkit.

update: see also A Practical Guide to Compiling C based Modules under ActiveState using Microsoft C++

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