----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jan Dubois" <jand@[...].com> 

> > Indeed, the makefile.mk lists odbccp32.lib in LIBFILES, but that
> > library is not present with this compiler.
> 
>  You can easily create the library yourself using implib.exe; do a
>  Google search for "borland odbccp32.dll" and you should find plenty
>  of examples.

Heh ... the makefile.mk actually does that for me ... but it doesn't do it 
early enough to avoid the error I got.
Having built perl (by removing the reference to odbccp32.lib), the 
odbccp32.lib now exists. So I should be able to revert the makefile.mk to 
its original state and never be bothered by this particular error again.

(Apart from that little hiccup it built fine, btw.)

>  The reason to list the complete set of import libs in the Makefile.mk
>  is that they will then automatically be included via MakeMaker for
>  any extension that you build later.

Thanks for elaborating.

Cheers,
Rob