I DID read your post

Thanks :-) now I know -DWIN32 is important

C:\>bcc32 -tWD  -DWIN32 -I"c:\perl\lib\CORE"  -L"C:\borland\bcc55\lib"
+  C:\perl\
lib\CORE\perl58.lib C:\borland\bcc55\lib\import32.lib C:\borland\bcc55
+\lib\cw32m
ti.lib perl_inc.c
Borland C++ 5.5.1 for Win32 Copyright (c) 1993, 2000 Borland
perl_inc.c:
Warning W8070 perl_inc.c 14: Function should return a value in functio
+n main
Turbo Incremental Link 5.00 Copyright (c) 1997, 2000 Borland

C:\>
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But you didnt say anywhere in your post that this was a problem you just added it silently ;-)

# Essentially we pass all the same -D defines that perl was built with
+ plus
# the include dir to find the perl headers and the perl56.lib binary w
+hich is 
# what where the real functions defined in the headers are found and w
+hat we 
# will be linking against........
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And this is what I did. There is no -DWIN32 in: perl -MExtUtils::Embed -e ccopts -e ldopts Which is what everyone was saying Nalina use. I personally dont think that it is possible for everyone to use cl.exe

ps Please stop down voting me now. I was only trying to help. There was no malice.

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