Hello, Scott, >I am trying to install inline.pm on a Windows XP Professional box [...] > > >Does nyone know what am I doing wrong? > > I don't know about Inline and ActiveState, but installation is possible with PXPerl (which makes other things easier, too) (if Inline is not already in the package, I don't remember that in detail). It allows to install CPAN distributions with cpanp and can work together with free compilers like Mingw.
If you just installed ActiveState, I suggest to try PXPerl instead. Regards Jochen