What's the current status of distribution options with Inline-based packages?

[Michael Roberts]

I haven't been following things very closely for a while, but the reason 
I got involved with Inline in the first place is that I didn't want to 
mess with XS when providing a Perl binding for my open-source workflow 
toolkit wftk.  It's a standard ASCII-C package, under Windows it's a 
DLL.  What are my options at this point for providing an easily 
installable package based on Inline under Windows and under Unix?  Back 
in the early Inline days I managed to get Perl compiled using mingw32 
and thus included Inline that way for experimental purposes, but a 
package based on that probably wouldn't work with ActiveState Perl under 
Windows.  Not that I've tried, actually.

Do we have cookbook examples for installation/distribution questions 
like this?  Or should I attempt to write some?

Michael