Dealing with Symlinks

I am trying to compile openssl. When I run make and make test, I get trivial compile errors. See, error: expected identifier or '(' before '!' token error: stray '\377' in program error: stray '\376' in program My friends tells me that this is because cygwin doesn't deal with the symlinks presen

Perl on Cygwin?

So I'm trying to run the config file for a program in Cygwin, but it says I need Perl 5 before I can proceed. I've searched through cygwin packages, I don't see a Perl package, only ancillary packages. I type "perl -v" in cygwin and perl is not recognized. So where do I get Perl for cygwin? I'v