I was the monk who front paged your question, because I think it is important.

As anonymized user 468275 said, for native perl modules the simplest solution is to obtain a copy of make from somewhere. I have done that myself in the past in order to install CPAN modules under windows/

On the other hand, that would not work for XS modules that need compiling, on on platforms where no make binary is available. For that you would need a true cross compiler, which I don't think CPAN supports.

I am also investigating this as I am looking to run perl on low powered ARM platform, and I have heard experiences from other people that it is often hard to install perl modules on such devices because there is not enough memory to run the CPAN tool, or compilers needed to build XS modules.

If you find a way to cross compile perl modules then please let us know.

In reply to Re: DBI cross compile by chrestomanci
in thread DBI cross compile by emiliano.delic

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