SOLUTION: How to install Compress::Stream::Zstd in Strawberry Perl?

Monks-

This place is fantastic, as are the people who contribute! No wonder Perl continues to be my preferred language. I just wanted to describe the final solution that I ended up using, for anyone else who need this help.

Shout outs for:

++syphilis - Figuring out the MYSIS2 solution, and the zstd-v1.5.7-win64.zip solution
++swl - Mentioning Alien::zstd
++brian_d_foy - Building Alien::zstd, moving libstd.a & finishing Compress::Stream::Zstd by hand

Ok, here is what worked for me on a Windows 10 box:

Install Strawberry Perl following the label directions

Startup CPAN shell & install Alien::Zstd

$ perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan> install Alien::Zstd
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Once successfully completed, verify the location of the libzstd.a library that was just built
```
c:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib/auto/share/dist/Alien-zstd/lib/libzstd.a
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Back in CPAN shell, try to install Compress::Stream::Zstd (it should fail)

cpan> install Compress::Stream::Zstd
...
The system cannot find the file specified
-or-
Cannot find ext/zstd/lib/libzstd.a: No such file or directory
-or-
Something similar
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Figure out where CPAN is building your Compress::Stream::Zstd

c:/Strawberry/cpan/build/Compress-Stream-Zstd-0.206-0
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Copy the Alien::zstd libzstd.a file to where Compress::Stream::Zstd expects it to be:

$ copy c:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib/auto/share/dist/Alien-zstd/lib/libz
+std.a c:/Strawberry/cpan/build/Compress-Stream-Zstd-0.206-0/ext/zstd/
+lib
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Go to the CPAN build directory for Compress::Stream::Zstd and finish building by hand:

$ cd c:/Strawberry/cpan/build/Compress-Stream-Zstd-0.206-0
$ perl ./Build.PL
$ ./Build
$ ./Build test
$ ./Build install
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That should complete successfully, and you are now done!

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Re: SOLUTION: How to install Compress::Stream::Zstd in Strawberry Perl? by swl (Prior) on Mar 08, 2025 at 06:25 UTC
Good to see it works, and thanks for the set of steps. In the interests of TIMTOWTDI, steps 4-7 could be simplified using cpanm. Calling `cpanm --look` opens a shell in the build directory. On Windows it is a `cmd` chell. (Untested) cpanm --look Compress::Stream::Zstd :: You are now in the build dir :: This next line prints the location of the Alien::Zstd files, under +which will be libzstd.a perl -MAlien::Zstd -E"say Alien::Zstd->dist_dir" :: assuming it is in the dir you noted in your post the line would be copy c:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib/auto/share/dist/Alien-zstd/lib/libzst +d.a ext\zstd\lib :: (One could also use File::Copy to use perl to find and copy the fil +e in one step) :: build, test, install perl .\Build.PL && build && build test && build install :: back to your previous shell exit [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re: SOLUTION: How to install Compress::Stream::Zstd in Strawberry Perl?
by swl (Prior) on Mar 08, 2025 at 06:25 UTC

Good to see it works, and thanks for the set of steps.

In the interests of TIMTOWTDI, steps 4-7 could be simplified using cpanm. Calling cpanm --look opens a shell in the build directory. On Windows it is a cmd chell.

(Untested)

cpanm --look Compress::Stream::Zstd
:: You are now in the build dir

:: This next line prints the location of the Alien::Zstd files, under 
+which will be libzstd.a
perl -MAlien::Zstd -E"say Alien::Zstd->dist_dir"

:: assuming it is in the dir you noted in your post the line would be 
copy c:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib/auto/share/dist/Alien-zstd/lib/libzst
+d.a ext\zstd\lib

:: (One could also use File::Copy to use perl to find and copy the fil
+e in one step)

:: build, test, install
perl .\Build.PL && build && build test && build install

:: back to your previous shell
exit
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