Inline C preliminaries

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

Hi what should i need to run inline c ?
i have inslalled the inline module from a ppm , on winxp, perl activestate 5.10
when i have tried this code:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use Inline C;
use strict;

hello_inline();

__END__
__C__
#include <stdio.h>

void hello_inline( ) {
        printf( "Hello World. Best Regards from Inline\n" );
}
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it gives me a message:'nmake' is not recognized as an internal or external command.
when i have downloaded and put the nmake in the same folder as the perl program i have the message:
To debug the problem, cd to the build directory, and inspect the output files.
at x.pl line 0
INIT failed--call queue aborted.
do i need a C compiler? and what compiler i need?
can someone post a detailed info for the totally beginners !!
thanks

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Re: Inline C preliminaries by Anonymous Monk on Jul 07, 2009 at 08:17 UTC
You need `ppm install MinGW` that will install MinGW/gcc compiler	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Inline C preliminaries by Anonymous Monk on Jul 07, 2009 at 09:23 UTC
Thank you very much ppm install MinGW have worked, i can now use inline c best wishes	[reply]
Re: Inline C preliminaries by missingthepoint (Friar) on Jul 07, 2009 at 08:28 UTC
You could also grab it from here and put it in `c:\windows` (or another directory in your `%PATH%`). This page also looks helpful, and you can try searching the Monastery for the error message as well. The zeroeth step in writing a module is to make sure that there isn't already a decent one in CPAN. (-- Pod::Simple::Subclassing)	[reply] [d/l] [select]