[Arsperl-users] Unable to Compile ARSPerl 1.90 on Windows 2000

[HEWITT, D. <DA...@SA...>]

I have downloaded and extracted contents of the ARSperl-1.90.tgz file
from http://sourceforge.net/ to my C: drive.  I have installed
ActiveState Perl 5.8.8 Build 820.  I have editted the makefile.pl as
instructed and have pointed it to a version 7.0.1 Arserver API folder.

When I run the makefile.pl from a command prompt, I get errors like the
following:

Looks good
Note (probably harmless): No library found for oldnames.lib
Note (probably harmless): No library found for kernel32.lib
Etc.

But the makefile is created.  I then run nMake and get errors like the
following:

e:\Remedy\ARServer\Api\include\artypes.h(16) : fatal error C1083: Cannot
open include file: 'limits.h': No such file or directory
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cl' : return code '0x2'
Stop.

I can get around these by copying a whole bunch of includes files from
my Microsoft Visual Studio includes folders to the base
Arserver\Api\Includes folder.

I then start getting errors like the following:

ARS.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _memset referenced
in function _XS_ARS_ars_LoadQualifier
support.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _memset
referenced in function _ARError_reset

I can get rid of the above errors if I copy the lib files from my
Microsoft Visual Studio lib folders to the base Arserver\Api\Includes
folder.

I don't profess to be a Perl syntax expert.

Can someone tell me how to get the Makefile.pl to recognize my
.lib and .includes folders that are registered on my PC and in my PATH
statement as well as other
environment variables?

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

Darryl