Makefile problem - 'cl' is not recognized as an internal or external command

I am trying to use nmake to install mod_perl as a prerequisite to
running Mason, but seems that the Makefile has a reliance on cl.exe,
which I do not have since I don't have MS Visual Studio.  Is my only
recourse to obtain and install Visual Studio, or is there something
really obvious that I should know in order to perform a workaround?

Here is the dump from my command line:

C:\Apache\Apache2\mod_perl-1.99_09>nmake test

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility   Version 1.50
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved.

        cd "src/modules/perl" && NMAKE -f Makefile.modperl

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility   Version 1.50
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved.

        cl -IC:/Apache/Apache2/mod_perl-1.99_09/src/modules/perl
-IC:/Apache/Apa
che2/mod_perl-1.99_09/xs
-IC:/Apache/Apache2/mod_perl-1.99_09/../../\Apache2/inc
lude -nologo -Gf -W3 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1 -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -DNO_STRICT
-DHAVE_
DES_FCRYPT  -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO
-DPERL_MSVC
RT_READFIX  -I"C:\Perl\lib\CORE" -DMOD_PERL -DMP_COMPAT_1X -MD -Zi
-DNDEBUG -O1
  -c mod_perl.c && C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -MExtUtils::Command -e mv
mod_perl.obj m
od_perl.lo
'cl' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe' : return code
'0x1'
Stop.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe' : return code
'0x2'
Stop.

Andy Stringer



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