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Ok, here is what worked for me on a Windows 10 box:
  1. Install Strawberry Perl following the label directions

  2. Startup CPAN shell & install Alien::Zstd 
    $ perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan> install Alien::Zstd

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  3. Once successfully completed, verify the location of the libzstd.a library that was just built 
    c:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib/auto/share/dist/Alien-zstd/lib/libzstd.a

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  4. Back in CPAN shell, try to install Compress::Stream::Zstd (it should fail)

    cpan> install Compress::Stream::Zstd
...
The system cannot find the file specified
-or-
Cannot find ext/zstd/lib/libzstd.a: No such file or directory
-or-
Something similar

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  5. Figure out where CPAN is building your Compress::Stream::Zstd

    c:/Strawberry/cpan/build/Compress-Stream-Zstd-0.206-0

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  6. Copy the Alien::zstd libzstd.a file to where Compress::Stream::Zstd expects it to be:

    $ copy c:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib/auto/share/dist/Alien-zstd/lib/libz
+std.a c:/Strawberry/cpan/build/Compress-Stream-Zstd-0.206-0/ext/zstd/
+lib

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  7. Go to the CPAN build directory for Compress::Stream::Zstd and finish building by hand:

    $ cd c:/Strawberry/cpan/build/Compress-Stream-Zstd-0.206-0
$ perl ./Build.PL
$ ./Build
$ ./Build test
$ ./Build install

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  8. That should complete successfully, and you are now done!

In reply to SOLUTION: How to install Compress::Stream::Zstd in Strawberry Perl? by cmv
in thread How to install Compress::Stream::Zstd in Strawberry Perl? by cmv

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