Re^9: EXTERN.h missing when compiling on OpenWrt

perlbase-unicore perhaps? (from https://openwrt.org/packages/index/languages---perl) which is detailed in the Embedded Perl: Installing Perl and Mojolicious on Arduino Yún / OpenWRT ChaosCalmer I linked to earlier, where the author faced a similar problem "I got gcc and gnu make working on OpenWRT but EXTERN.h is missing from the Perl core and I'm trying to figure out why."..."I got it working!!!", and a link to the tutorial they made.

Update: OP states they tried to install this (Re^2: EXTERN.h missing when compiling on OpenWrt), but "(the dependencies are not properly reflected in the packages)". Perhaps something to do with the OS version being out of support.

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Re^10: EXTERN.h missing when compiling on OpenWrt by morgon (Priest) on Dec 12, 2018 at 17:10 UTC
Thanks for all your effort. As for the tutorial you mention, it seems that it is not quite complete and some things seem to be just a little bit different on my system. E.g. I do not need to build make, but I need to install perlbase-dumpvalue to make cpanm work. But I can use cpanm like this now: `curl -L https://cpanmin.us \| perl - -M https://cpan.org -n <module>` [download] Again I need to use cpan.org and not cpan.metacpan.org as in the tutorial, as otherwise the modules are not found. But of course when I try this to install Net::SSLeay it fails becuase of the missing EXTERN.h. I is totally unclear to me how the author of this tutorial who initially also had the problem of a misssing EXTERN.h managed to make this problem go away. This is magic that I cannot reproduce.	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^10: EXTERN.h missing when compiling on OpenWrt
by morgon (Priest) on Dec 12, 2018 at 17:10 UTC

As for the tutorial you mention, it seems that it is not quite complete and some things seem to be just a little bit different on my system.

E.g. I do not need to build make, but I need to install perlbase-dumpvalue to make cpanm work.

But I can use cpanm like this now:

curl -L https://cpanmin.us | perl - -M https://cpan.org -n <module>
[download]

But of course when I try this to install Net::SSLeay it fails becuase of the missing EXTERN.h.

I is totally unclear to me how the author of this tutorial who initially also had the problem of a misssing EXTERN.h managed to make this problem go away.

This is magic that I cannot reproduce.

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