Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good MakeMaker (v6.42_01) Writing Makefile for SWISH::Stemmer::lib Writing Makefile for SWISH::Stemmer Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 6.00.8168.0 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1988-1998. All rights reserved. cp Stemmer.pm blib\lib\SWISH\Stemmer.pm cd lib && nmake Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 6.00.8168.0 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1988-1998. All rights reserved. cl -c -nologo -GF -W3 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1 -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE -DPRIVLIB_LAST_IN_INC -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1 -DVERSION=\"\" -DXS_VERSION=\"\" "-IC:\cpanrun\build\5-10-0\lib\CORE" stemmer.c stemmer.c stemmer.c(575) : warning C4033: 'SwishStem' must return a value stemmer.c(580) : warning C4172: returning address of local variable or temporary stemmer.c(573) : warning C4101: 'wordout' : unreferenced local variable stemmer.c(581) : warning C4715: 'SwishStem' : not all control paths return a value lib cr libmylib.lib stemmer.obj Microsoft (R) Library Manager Version 6.00.8447 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1992-1998. All rights reserved. LIB : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file "cr" NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'lib' : return code '0x49d' Stop. NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cd' : return code '0x2' Stop.