Ahm, shoot. My apologies. You need to enable the option that tells Inline not to clean up after itself. I think you want something like

use Inline Config =>
           ENABLE => FORCE_BUILD,
           DISABLE => CLEAN_AFTER_BUILD;
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or the equivelent

use Inline Config =>
           FORCE_BUILD => 1,
           CLEAN_AFTER_BUILD => 0;
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IIRC, this should come before you say

use Inline::C;
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BTW, I assure you that Inline::C does indeed produce XS. :-) In fact thats exactly what Inline::C does for you: autogenerate XS bindings for the C routines you provide.