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in thread EXTERN.h missing when compiling on OpenWrt

the file 02packages.details.txt.gz is 1.3MB compressed. If you run out of memory uncompressing that then...

As marto suggested, try something with low memory footprint (cpanm) OR maybe you should tell cpan exactly what module you want installed rather than starting with a shell which will try to bring itself up-to-date. The guide posted contains how to increase RAM via SWAP on USB. If you master that, then a lot of other problems you may encounter in the future can be solved.

You want something like "perl-devel" (or whatever name) installed for EXTERN.h. Either via your linux's packet manager or cpan. You also have the choice of installing perl modules exclusively via the packet manager of your system. Let the packet manager deal with it and forget the cpan installers - surely the former will be a bit more aware of low-memory-systems.

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Re^7: EXTERN.h missing when compiling on OpenWrt
by morgon (Priest) on Dec 12, 2018 at 12:05 UTC
    exactly what module you want installed
    All I need is Net::SSLeay which is not available via the package manager.

    Everything else is either pure-Perl (so I simply copy the modules) or is available from the repo.

    And there is a perlbase-devel package available, but it does not contain an EXTERN.h.

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      And there is a perlbase-devel package available, but it does not contain an EXTERN.h

      Going by your original post, EXTERN.h (and a whole lot of other headers) should be in /usr/lib/perl5/5.20/CORE.
      I envisage that all of those headers are missing, and that the error signifies that EXTERN.h was the first required header that couldn't be located.
      EXTERN.h is, of course, the first header that SSLeay.xs tries to load.

      I don't suppose there's a perlbase-core (or similar name) package available ?


      Cheers,
      Rob
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