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Prerequisites:

Perl 5.8.8 source
MinGW, including the g++ compiler. The MinGW software is now installed from a centralized installer, from which you can install extra packages if you wish (mostly compilers and make)
- MinGW Installer downloads
dmake, downloadable from CPAN
Make sure the paths to gcc.exe, dmake.exe, cc1.exe and dmake.exe (and it's subdirectories) are set on the machine using the Environment Variables button from the My Computer properties dialog (see the above section titled Running a pre-zipped Camelbox package for step-by-step instructions on how to change the $PATH environment variable in Windows)
(Optional) Unix Utilities for Windows; this package has a lot of the external utilities you will need when you run the CPAN shell or tools on Windows (perl -MCPAN -e shell)
(Optional) The wget binary from the Unix Utilities package above is not piping downloaded files correctly for some reason. This breaks the CPAN shell/module badly, as it pipes together wget and gunzip in order to unpack files downloaded from CPAN. Lynx for Win32 seems to work however, but you need to set the path to the lynx.cfg file in the CPAN Config.pm file before you try to use Lynx to download files in Windows. Your lynx line in $PERL/lib/CPAN/Config.pm should look something like this: 'lynx' => q[C:\apps\unxutils\usr\local\wbin\lynx.EXE -cfg=C:\apps\unxutils\usr\local\wbin\lynx.cfg]

objdump can be used to view what functions are compiled into a library; see the MinGW docs page for more on the below command:

 objdump -p file.dll > dll.fil

MinGW Wiki Links that fixed problems with linking to .dll files:

More links to pages with Gtk2-Perl compile problems:

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