Installing CPAN on OpenWRT

https://metacpan.org/pod/App::cpanminus

It's dependency free*(can bootstrap itself), requires zero configuration, and stands alone. When running, it requires only 10MB of RAM.

*Dependency Free* is very misleading as the following perl modules need to be installed;

opkg install perlbase-extutils perlbase-perlio perlbase-if perlbase-universal perlbase-getopt perlbase-data perlbase-pod perlbase-test perlbase-encoding perlbase-perlio perlbase-json-pp perlbase-english perl-test-harness

opkg install make curl tar wget (the full WGET executable must be installed as the one built into BusyBox does not have the necessary capability, the same for TAR comes up in other situations, so may as well install it here).

...and gave up trying to find all of the perlbase- modules and just installed all of them: opkg list | grep perlbase-| awk '{print $1}' | xargs opkg install

Also: opkg install perl-test-warn and opkg install perl-test-harness --force-overwrite (from https://github.com/Entware/Entware-ng/wiki/Self-installation-of-perl-modules), perl-test-harness = perlbase-test perlbase-tap

curl -L https://cpanmin.us | perl - Test::More

curl -L https://cpanmin.us | perl - ExtUtils::CBuilder

curl -L https://cpanmin.us | perl - ExtUtils::MakeMaker

curl -L https://cpanmin.us | perl - App::cpanminus

Net::SSLeay

Download perl-dev from Entware: https://bin.entware.net/armv7sf-k3.2/perl-dev_5.28.1-5_armv7-3.2.ipk

Header files from Entware: http://pkg.entware.net/binaries/armv7/include/include.tar.gz

Issue with

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lssl

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcrypto

Solutions that don't work

ln -s /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.1 /usr/lib/libcrypto.so

ln -s /usr/lib/libssl.so.1.1 /usr/lib/libssl.so

export LDFLAGS="-Wl,-rpath=/lib -Wl,--dynamic-linker=/lib/ld-musl-armhf.so.1 -L/lib"

export CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=armv7-a -mtune=cortex-a9 -fno-caller-saves -mfloat-abi=soft "

Missing items

libcrypto.so

libssl.so

openssl.so

And if it is all solved

opkg install openssl-util gcc

cpanm -v -i Net::SSLeay

Manual Installation of CPAN

Download CPAN Module: CPAN-2.28.tar.gz

perl Makefile.PL

make

make test

make install

Script for listing installed perl modules

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use ExtUtils::Installed;

my $inst    = ExtUtils::Installed->new();

my @modules = $inst->modules();

foreach $module (@modules){

     print $module . "\n";

}

MailScanner

Log::Log4perl

Term::ReadLine::Perl

YAML

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