My perl is This is perl, v5.8.8 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread I have set up minGW
Gcc --version gcc.exe (GCC) 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3) Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. When I try to install PAR-Packer from the CPAN/build folder, running perl Makefile.pl and dmake I got gcc main.o my_par_pl.o win32.coff -s -nologo -nodefaultlib -debug -opt:ref,icf -libpath:"C:\Perl\lib\CORE" -machine:x86 C:\Perl\lib\CORE\perl58.lib -o .\pa r.exe gcc.exe: unrecognized option `-nologo' gcc.exe: unrecognized option `-nodefaultlib' C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\MinGW\bin\..\lib\gcc\mingw32\3.4.5\..\..\..\..\mingw32\bin \ld.exe: cannot find -libpath:C:\Perl\lib\CORE collect2: ld returned 1 exit status dmake.exe: Error code 129, while making 'par.exe' dmake.exe: Error code 255, while making 'subdirs' What surprised me is that I have a C:\Perl\lib\CORE folder with a lot of header files. Thanks for any help François