shared hosting where I do not have access to compilers

The options of cross-compiling or building the module on a system that is similar enough to your hosting environment have been discussed before.

There are also other hosting providers that give you shared hosting with a compiler.

It also may be worth it to pick up the thought of switching to a VPS again. Yes, it's work, and having a system with root access does mean responsibility, but it's also a lot of freedom - the freedom you're currently lacking, and that is causing you extra work (getting XS modules installed).

Perhaps an intermediate step would be for you to set up a virtual machine on your local system that you can use to "practice" on, and this can also be your test system that mirrors the production system later on. You can get Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS here ("Manual server installation"), and getting it running inside a VM like VirtualBox is fairly easy.

In reply to Re: Installing PadWalker by haukex
in thread Installing PadWalker by Bod

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