Hello, Scott,
>I am trying to install inline.pm on a Windows XP Professional box [...]
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>Does nyone know what am I doing wrong?
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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