Dear Fellow Monks!

I recently "recycled" an old computer and put Linux Mandrake 10.2 on it. It works well and even had a recent Perl on it.

When installing some modules from CPAN, they failed to be installed since the file EXTERN.h could not be found (it is a file needed to compile XS-modules it seems).

I searched the whole installation but nowhere is this file to be found.

Does anybody of you know what this file is and where I can get it?

Update: Thanks for all the helpful answers (++ to you all). I found EXTERN.h on my windows system and it looks as it is written in a system-independent way, so I will try to copy it over to my Linux system. If that doesn't work I will have to install a devel version of Perl.

CountZero

"If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law

In reply to File EXTERN.h missing by CountZero

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