Re: How to install Compress::Stream::Zstd in Strawberry Perl?

[swl]

It's probably worth looking at Alien::zstd.

Add its bin_dir to your path before building Compress::Stream::Zstd and see how things work. You might also need to add the pkgconf dir to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH env var (although it seems not to use pkg-config).

Edit: Nope. That hits the same issues. Looks like more tweaking is needed, possibly to the C::S::Z build process.

[brian_d_foy]

Huh, first post in three years. I tried this with Alien::zstd and it seems to work out and the .a file is deep under site/:

cpan Alien::zstd

I let that run for awhile, because I have an underpowered Surface 8.

C:\strawberry\perl\site\lib\auto\share\dist\Alien-zstd\lib\libzstd.a

I don't know about the path to point to this (please add those steps if you know the proper way), so I did the simple and expedient thing of going into the cpan/build/Compress-Stream-Zlib-0.206-0 directory (the last digits may be different for you). Under ext/zstd/lib is the source for Zstd, but I'm not falling that again. Instead of building all that, I simply copied the previous libzstd.a file into it:

cp C:\strawberry\perl\site\lib\auto\share\dist\Alien-zstd\lib\libzstd.
+a .\ext\zstd\lib

Then I ran the Build steps and it seems to work out:

perl ./Build.PL
./Build
./Build test
./Build install

Now the trick is packaging that for a distributed single-file app.

[swl]

I hacked into the builder\MyBuilder.pm file to get the same build result but with more effort.

That said I get test failures, although these look like problems with the tests given the expected version is hard-coded to 1.5.5.

t\01_basic.t ................ #
# Compress::Stream::Zstd Version 0.206
# ZSTD_VERSION_NUMBER            10507
# ZSTD_VERSION_STRING            1.5.7
# ZSTD_MAX_CLEVEL                22
# ZSTD_MIN_CLEVEL                -131072
#
t\01_basic.t ................ 1/?
t\01_basic.t ................ 1/?
#   Failed test at t\01_basic.t line 30.
#          got: '10507'
#     expected: '10505'

#   Failed test at t\01_basic.t line 31.
#          got: '1.5.7'
#     expected: '1.5.5'
# Looks like you failed 2 tests of 16.
t\01_basic.t ................ Dubious, test returned 2 (wstat 512, 0x2
+00)