You are right, you need a full-featured Perl build to use DBI. As far as I understand the Perl build process, it must run on the target system, which makes cross-compiling a littler bit harder. If you had a complete native toolchain for the target system, you could compile perl there. A telnet or ssh connection to the target would be helpful.

Do you know Cross/README? It seems that comes close to your problem.

Generating a proper config file is the job of the Configure script, but you can also write it manually. I would try to run Configure interactively on the target system, using a telnet or ssh connection, then copy the generated config file back to the development system. From there, building Perl should be relatively simple.

Alexander

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In reply to Re^3: Perl for arm buildroot target by afoken
in thread Perl for arm buildroot target by cbanker

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