Hi Russell, On Sun, 2025-10-05 at 21:59 +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > I'm in the process of creating a package libcrypt-nacl-sodium-perl which > depends on it (part of the dependency chain for matrixtool). > > Below are the error messages from trying to build it. What is this > libsodium.a that it's expecting? The libalien-sodium-perl package doesn't > have any source files from a compiled language. The above URLs have my > work > in progress and the cpan page.
Looking at https://metacpan.org/release/CAPOEIRAB/Alien-Sodium-2.000/source/lib/Alien/Sodium.pm is says it wraps libsodium from https://doc.libsodium.org/ . The good news is that libsodium is already in Debian, perhaps try adding libsodium23 as a dependency and maybe libsodium-dev as a build-dep? Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Ruthven, Wellington, New Zealand [email protected] | Catalyst Cloud: | This space intentionally left blank https://catalystcloud.nz |

