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And any compilation that includes perl.h fails, since the the standard C headers that perl.h includes aren't found.

There have been problems getting the installer to set the LIB and INSTALL env variables properly (due to the new UAC in Vista). For example, on my WinXP, I have this: 

INCLUDE=C:\strawberry\c\include;C:\strawberry\perl\lib\CORE;C:\Program
+ Files\GnuWin32\include
LIB=C:\strawberry\c\lib;C:\strawberry\perl\bin;C:\Program Files\GnuWin
+32\lib

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(The GnuWin32 were my own addition -- the others are provided by Strawberry on installation.)

If you don't have those set, try setting them and compiling again.

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Re^4: Disappointed with latest Strawberry Perl
by syphilis (Archbishop) on Dec 31, 2007 at 00:19 UTC
    If you don't have those set, try setting them and compiling again

    I have: 
    INCLUDE=;C:\strawberry-perl\mingw\include;C:\strawberry-perl\perl\lib\
+CORE;C:\strawberry-perl\perl\lib\encode;C:\strawberry\c\include;C:\st
+rawberry\perl\lib\CORE;C:\strawberry\c\include;C:\strawberry\perl\lib
+\CORE
LIB=;C:\strawberry-perl\mingw\lib;C:\strawberry-perl\perl\bin;C:\straw
+berry\c\li
b;C:\strawberry\perl\bin;C:\strawberry\c\lib;C:\strawberry\perl\bin

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    They're all there except for the GnuWin32\include. There's certainly plenty of locations mentioned there that contain stdio.h - though the error is not that stdio.h can't be found, but that there's no path in which to search for it.

    I thought I got past that error at one time, but now I find I can only avoid the no include path in which to search for stdio.h error by commenting out #include <stdio.h> in the source file ... but then I get: 
    ld: crt2.o: No such file: No such file or directory

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    The issue has come up a number of times on the MinGW mailing list, and the solution has always been to use the patched executables - or to rebuild MinGW using the patched source. (No other solutions have been offered, afaik.) Rebuilding MinGW would certainly fix my issue with g77, but I've yet to find instructions (that I can comprehend) on how to do that. Unfortunately, whilst various people have made available patched versions of gcc, g++ and collect2, no-one has yet provided a patched version of g77.

    I appreciate you taking the time to consider this issue, btw.

    Cheers,
    Rob

    Update: For a bit of an explanation of what's really going on (and the fixes produced), see the thread http://www.nabble.com/environment-hosed-during-upgrade-to9195667.html
    And the best source I know of for the patched executables is http://dessent.net/tmp/gcc-vista-3.4.5-20060117-1.tar.gz.
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