Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

i'm attempting to build perl from source on a win2000 machine with djgpp, and when I run the configure script, it says its checking for optional libraries and lists off this: 
No -lsfio.
No -lsocket.
No -lbind.
No -linet.
No -lnsl.
No -lnm.
No -lndbm.
No -lgdbm.
No -ldbm.
No -ldb.
No -lmalloc.
No -ldl.
No -ldld.
No -lld.
No -lsun.
Found -lm.
No -lcrypt.
No -lsec.
No -lutil.
Found -lc.
No -lcposix.
No -lposix.
No -lucb.
No -lbsd.
No -lBSD.

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My question is this, where can I find all these libraries to use, because i'm almost sure i'll need several of them when i run scripts through perl (lsocket and lcrypt for example)

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Re: libraries used in building perl?
by merlyn (Sage) on Jun 15, 2005 at 22:35 UTC
    It's quite possible that all of those are in your libc anyway. For example, there's almost no lib linked to my Perl built on OSX, because everything needed from that list you gave is in libSystem.dylib.

    -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
    Be sure to read my standard disclaimer if this is a reply.

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      really? that's great. thanks!
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