Sorry, you cannot build this module on a non-Cygwin Perl, but am letting you proceed in case you are trying to build a release tarball or something. Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Writing Makefile for Filesys::CygwinPaths cp lib/Filesys/CygwinPaths.pm blib/lib/Filesys/CygwinPaths.pm /home/cpanrun/ia64/build/5.8.2/bin/perl /home/cpanrun/ia64/build/5.8.2/lib/5.8.2/ExtUtils/xsubpp -typemap /home/cpanrun/ia64/build/5.8.2/lib/5.8.2/ExtUtils/typemap -typemap Cygwin.typemap path_protocol.xs > path_protocol.xsc && mv path_protocol.xsc path_protocol.c Please specify prototyping behavior for path_protocol.xs (see perlxs manual) cc -c -I. -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L -D_REENTRANT -Ae -D_HPUX_SOURCE -Wl,+vnocompatwarnings -DNO_HASH_SEED -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O2 -Wundef -DVERSION=\"0.04\" -DXS_VERSION=\"0.04\" +Z "-I/home/cpanrun/ia64/build/5.8.2/lib/5.8.2/IA64.ARCHREV_0-thread-multi/CORE" path_protocol.c cc: error 1914: bad form for `-W' option make: *** [path_protocol.o] Error 1