in reply to Text::ExtractWords Installation Error

You need to install the MSVC C compiler that was used to compile your Perl, and have it available in the path.

Note that you cannot use "any" C compiler without some fiddling. I recommend using the exact version that was used to compile your Perl executable, that is likely MSVC 6. There are two complete packages of Perl with C compilers for Windows, http://stennie.org/camelpack/ and Vanilla Perl - uninstalling your current Perl installation and installing one of these two might also be a solution to your problem.

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Re^2: Text::ExtractWords Installation Error
by bart (Canon) on Apr 01, 2006 at 09:36 UTC
    Nah, just install MinGW and a recent version of ActivePerl, and you can build XS modules just with the CPAN shell.

    Activestate's recent work on CPAN has made Camelpack and related distributions almost obsolete... Too bad they needed to be pushed into it, first. Or, so it would seem.