Thank you for your help. You where right, installing perl development package was the solution. All works fine after installing libperl-dev.
But Steffen is also correct when he said that "it's strange that it's failing during linking". Could that missing file be checked previously? Anyway, tanks again for your help. sincerely, Memo Garcia S. memo.garcia...@gmail.com On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:41 AM, Roderich Schupp < roderich.sch...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Steffen Mueller <smuel...@cpan.org> wrote: > > Memo Garcia wrote: > >> cc main.o my_par_pl.o -s -Wl,-E -L/usr/local/lib > >> -L/usr/lib/perl/5.10/CORE -lperl -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt -o ./par > >> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lperl > > The solution to your problem is probably to install a missing package. > > It's strange that it's failing during linking. I'd expect it to be > > missing perl headers. Right now, I have no Ubuntu to check, but have a > > look at the base perl packages that aren't installed. You definitely > > need libperl-dev or so. > > Steffen is correct, you need to install package libperl-dev on Ubuntu or > Debian. > > In general, reasons for "cannot find -lperl" can be: > > - Your perl executable (e.g. /usr/bin/perl) was linked statically, > hence there might no > libperl.a or libperl.so on your system at all > (unless you install some "perl development" package) > > - Your perl executable _was_ linked dynamically, but the shared > library is called > something like /usr/lib/libperl.so.5.10 (i.e. the internal name of > the shared library > is used as the filename) - this is standard practise on modern *nix > systems. > In this setup, you would use a symlink /usr/lib/libperl.so -> > /usr/lib/libperl.so.5.10 > to link against this shared library (corresponding argument for the linker > is the above "-lperl"). Since this symlink is needed for development only, > it might also be in a separate "perl development" package > > Cheers, Roderich >
