Someone pointed me to Installing Modules that include elements coded in C months ago, which the tutorial you mentioned also points me to. When I read

Getting modules compiling on Win32 can be tricky. See A Practical Guide to Compiling C based Modules under ActiveState using Microsoft C++. Just getting cygwin/MinGW and gcc is not enough. The easiset solution is to try to find a precompiled binary version (try ActiveState for a PPM or the Author) or email the Author the tale of your woes. If you are using Win32 expect the author to suggest you get a real OS but.....

I decided not to try it with those instructions. They sound incomplete. I looked elsewhere, and found nothing.

Even though I praised jZed, there are too many components to worry about and too little support (that works) for installing modules requiring C, and I will still avoid them as long as I can, and not depend on them very much even if I get one to work.

In reply to Re^2: Keep "Free MSVC tools + Activestate to compile CPAN Modules" on front page! by Wassercrats
in thread Keep "Free MSVC tools + Activestate to compile CPAN Modules" on front page! by Wassercrats

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