A general rule of thumb is that a negative lookaround can never work if there is a .* or any other variable-length "general" pattern next to it. In your case, you have two such things, .* to the right and [^\n]+ to the left of (?!\sLib\s). You can easily check how Perl matched your strings against the regular expression by printing out the match variables:

while (<DATA>) {
/
 (                               #Start capture
  (                              #Start Sub descript header
   '\*{20,}                      #start '------ delimiter
   (\n'[^\n]*?)+\n               #middle of header
   '\*{20,}\n                    #end '------ delimiter
  )?                             #End Sub header (optional)
  (Private\s|Public\s|Friend\s)? #Scope (optional)
  (Static\s)?                    #Static (optional)
  (Sub\s|Function\s)             #Sub or Function (mandatory)
  [^\n]+                         #more stuff on same line
  (?!\sLib\s)                    #but not if Lib on line
  .*                             #and the rest of the file
 )                               #End capture
/sx
and print "[$6/$7/$8]\n";
};
__DATA__
Private Declare Function DeleteFile Lib "kernel32" Alias "DeleteFileA"
+ _
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One approach to make your parser more robust is to make it more specific, like explicitly parsing out the function/sub name and expecting (or rather, denying) the Lib keyword immediately after the function name:

while (<DATA>) {
print;
/
 (                               #Start capture
  (                              #Start Sub descript header
   '\*{20,}                      #start '------ delimiter
   (\n'[^\n]*?)+\n               #middle of header
   '\*{20,}\n                    #end '------ delimiter
  )?                             #End Sub header (optional)
  (Private\s|Public\s|Friend\s)? #Scope (optional)
  (Static\s)?                    #Static (optional)
  (Sub\s|Function\s)             #Sub or Function (mandatory)
  (\w+)\s+                       # sub name
  ((?!Lib\s))                    #no Lib on line
  ([^\n]+)                       #more stuff on same line unless "Lib"
  (.*)                           #and the rest of the file
 )                               #End capture
/sx
    and print "[$6/$7/$8]";
};

__DATA__
Private Declare Function DeleteFile Lib "kernel32" Alias "DeleteFileA"
[download]

To be a bit more specific about the word "general" above, a negative lookahead will never work if there is a variable length quantifier next to it with a pattern that will also match (parts of) the phrase you want to avoid.

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