This ought to be a simple one but I've burned half a day going around circular hyperlinks trying to make it work so I some seeking the wisdom of the monks. I'm running Activstate Perl on Windows 7 (using Eclipse as my IDE). I have some vendor code as C dlls (and Linux .so files for later on). Today I installed mingw gcc C compiler and it's working on my Win 7 platform. How do I tell my Perl runtime and IDE environments that I have a C compiler and a set of C libraries so I can use the include module? Whenever I run my code (I've just lifted the sample code straight from the Include C Cookbook to validate my environment before I try my own code) I receive the following error: 
Error. You have specified 'C' as an Inline programming language.

I currently only know about the following languages:
    Foo, foo

If you have installed a support module for this language, try deleting
+ the
config-MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.016003 file from the following Inlin
+e DIRECTORY, and run again:

    C:/Users/murrayn/Documents/codecvs/CodeCVS/Perl Code/TestCode/_Inl
+ine

(And if that works, please file a bug report.)

 at C:/Users/murrayn/Documents/codecvs/CodeCVS/Perl Code/TestCode/inli
+ne_c_test.pl line 0.
INIT failed--call queue aborted.

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(and deleting the file does not fix the problem so I've not logged a bug report)

In reply to Defining the C environment for "inline::c" by murrayn

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