Installing goocanvas libs and Module

deadpickle has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have been trying to install the goocanvas libs on my Windows system. I've been in contact with the goocanvas mailing-list but its close to being resolved. I downloaded the windows pre-built dlls from here and installed them in the required areas in my camelbox distro of perl. From there I have been trying to install Goo::Canvas. spicy Jack has been helping me with this but I'm stuck. When I go the perl MakeFile.PL I get this error:

Package goocanvas was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `goocanvas.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'goocanvas' found
 at Makefile.PL line 52
*** can not find package goocanvas
*** check that it is properly installed and available in PKG_CONFIG_PA
+TH
 at Makefile.PL line 52
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To get through this error I need the file goocanvas.pc. So far I'm unable to find this file since I am using pre-built libs. Has anyone done this? I would prefer not to make my own goocanvas.pc file and any help in this is appreciated.

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Re: Installing goocanvas libs and Module by Anonymous Monk on Jun 10, 2008 at 06:59 UTC
The pre-built dlls don't contain any goocanvas.pc, so pkg-config is not going to be able to help you. Since Goo-Canvas-0.05/Makefile.PL is based around pkg-config, you might as well build goocanvas yourself.	[reply]