Thanks for the Win32 suggestions, They both worked FLAWLESS.

Well, I got a little further ...

I did successfully create a simple C++ class and Library with XS interface that works ... So I know the system is good at least at that simple level.

During that I picked up how to shut up the "PerlLIO_read and write complaints, that sure cleans things up, however ultimately it still fails ... :(

In TagLib.xs, Just after:

#include ppport.h
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Add the following two lines:

#undef PerlLIO_read
#undef PerlLIO_write
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Don't know the consequences yet, I'll learn that later ... :)

Back at it

-Enjoy
fh :)_~