Submitted a Net-SSLeay bug report containing this patch which, hopefully, fixes the problem I was having with that distro in a portable fashion: 
--- 00_ptr_cast.t_orig Sat May 9 09:51:39 2009
+++ 00_ptr_cast.t Sat May 9 10:31:59 2009
@@ -17,8 +17,12 @@
my $err = gensym();

my @extraargs;
-push(@extraargs, '/nologo') if $^O eq 'MSWin32' && $Config{cc} eq 'cl
+';
-my $cmd = "$Config{cc} -o $output $input " . join(' ', @extraargs);
+my $cmd;
+if($^O eq 'MSWin32' && $Config{cc} eq 'cl') {
+ push(@extraargs, '/nologo ' . $Config{libs});
+ $cmd = "$Config{cc} /Fe$output $input " . join(' ', @extraargs);
+}
+else {$cmd = "$Config{cc} -o $output $input " . join(' ', @extraargs)
+}
diag( "compiling test program with: $cmd" );
my $pid = open3(undef, $out, $err, $cmd);
waitpid $pid, 0;

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Cheers,
Rob

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