perl pecl extenion

can anyone send me a copy or instructions on how to get the perl pecl extension installed? It keeps erroring here: downloading perl-1.0.0.tgz ... Starting to download perl-1.0.0.tgz (24,358 bytes) .........done: 24,358 bytes 5 source files, building running: msdev perl.dsp /MAKE "perl - Release" ERROR: Did not understand the completion status returned from msdev.exe. msdev can not be found. research points to it being microsoft. I tried compiling with visual studio.net c++ but it had many errors (possible conversion problems). can anyone help? -- Extreme Knowledge is not something for which he programs a computer but for which his computer is programming him. -Wozniak