in reply to [OT] Building Math::Pari on M$ Windows

Hi Rob, you probably want to look at the preprocessed sources. Option /E dumps the output of the C preprocesser to stdout (i.e. with macros expanded, etc.), which might give you some clue as to what's going wrong...

Just rerun the failing cl command with option /E added (use mouse to cut-n-paste a lengthy command line), and redirect stdout to a file for further inspection.  Good luck.