I don't know what needs compiling or installation and what doesn't. I just wanted to use a module, and PPM didn't install it, compile it, or whatever, so I couldn't use it. Now I don't even know if jZed's solution would let me use modules with C files.

The page tachyon linked to referred to the page about installation. It wasn't clear, but it seemed like I had to follow those instructions too.

You said: "So I usually advise people who want to compile things, to learn C and know what is really going on, otherwise, look for binaries."

And how do you learn C? With instructions. If someone sees what looks like instructions for doing something he wants to do, he should be able to follow them with success. Unfortunately, many of the "best" instructions I've seen for programming related stuff are awful, so I wouldn't be confident I could get a C based module to work even if I knew C.

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