Alright, im back, a year later...did this again! Found this post and was like...what the heck. Anyhow. A better answer.

I did have to modify the MakeFile and add -m32 to the CCFLAGS declaration. This time i was using cpanm and everytime i reran it would redownload the source and overwrite my MakeFile changes.

Thus i added --prompt and once it failed it asked me to retry again with the same source. I sat on this prompt and made the changes, then had it retry to success.

However, my cowork notated that in the documentation for ExtUtils::MakeMaker it had the right option:

cpanm --configure-args="CCFLAGS=-m32" --local-lib=/app/shared/lib/cpan
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