[Mingw-users] Newbie compile query (perl)

[Biz <bi...@du...>]

Hi All

Sorry to be asking such a basic question, but I just do not seem to  
be able to figure this out for myself and am wasting a ridiculous  
amount of time as a result.

I am familiar with OSX/Linux and with building from sourcecode via  
the terminal on those platforms, but not with building from  
sourcecode using MingW on Win32 (or Visual Studio for that matter).

I need to build a basic perl.exe installation from source code.
It's path will need to be c:\mypath\helpers\perl\perl.exe (or similar)
Is there a simple walkthrough (using any source code, not necessarily  
perl?) that I can refer to?

I have carried out a full install of mingW 5.1.3 and also installing  
MingSYS 1.0.10
They appear to be functional and I can cd and ls quite easily.
'make -v' works okay.
I have downloaded (via the Windows GUI) the source code for perl5.8.8  
(perl5.8.8.tar ).
It is in my mysys 'home' folder.

I get confused at this point and nothing seems to behave quite as  
expected.
What do I have to do?
Do I use ./configure ? or utilise files in the win32 directory? If  
so, how?

Is there a simple walkthrough (using any source code, not necessarily  
perl?) that I can refer to?

cheers

Biz