Perl error while installing XML::LibXSLT - perl

Question

I am installing Perl module XML::LibXSLT, and I am getting the errors shown below.
Writing Makefile for XML::LibXSLT
Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json
cp LibXSLT.pm blib\lib\XML\LibXSLT.pm
E:\Perl\bin\perl.exe E:\Perl\lib\ExtUtils\xsubpp -typemap E:\Perl\lib\ExtUtils\
typemap -typemap typemap LibXSLT.xs > LibXSLT.xsc && E:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -MExt
Utils::Command -e mv -- LibXSLT.xsc LibXSLT.c
E:\Perl\site\bin\gcc.exe -c -DNDEBUG -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -DNO_STRICT -DWIN64
-DCONSERVATIVE -DPERL_TEXTMODE_SCRIPTS -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTE
XT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -DHASATTRIBUTE -fno-strict-aliasing -mms-bit
fields -O2 -DVERSION=\"1.81\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.81\" "-IE:\Perl\lib\CO
RE" -DHAVE_BLANK -DHAVE_BLANK -DHAVE_EXSLT LibXSLT.c
LibXSLT.xs:12:32: fatal error: libxslt/xsltconfig.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
dmake.exe: Error code 129, while making 'LibXSLT.o'
SHLOMIF/XML-LibXSLT-1.81.tar.gz
E:\Perl\site\bin\dmake.exe -- NOT OK
Running make test
Can't test without successful make
Running make install
Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
Any idea to how to rectify this. Please let me know.
Actaully, I am installing this by using
perl -MCPAN -e "CPAN::Shell->force(qw(install XML::LibXSLT));
So, it is getting 'XML-LibXSLT-1.81.tar.gz' automatically and working this with Windows 7.

Answer 1

It would help if you said how you were trying to install the module. Is this cpan or cpanm, or are you doing it manually? It also looks like you're building on a Windows system, is that right?
The immediate problem is that the gcc compiler can't find libxslt/xsltconfig.h. It may be that the download wasn't unpacked correctly, but I see you are trying to build version 1.81 when the latest is 1.82. You should really fetch the latest version before you try to build it.

Answer 2

Sounds like you're missing the headers files for libxslt. Did you install libxslt?
XML::LibXSLT's README:
This module is a fast XSLT library, based on the GNOME libxslt engine
that you can find at http://www.xmlsoft.org/XSLT/
...
A NOTE ON INSTALLATION
The library depends on libxslt. You have to have both the library and
its header files installed (on various Linux/UNIX distributions thay
are usually packaged as libxslt-dev or libxslt-devel). The module can
further make use of libexslt, which is distributed with libxslt, but
on some systems packaged separately. These libraries may have their
own dependencies (usually resolved automatically by the packaging
system).
...