PERLHAIKU(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide PERLHAIKU(1)

# [NAME](#NAME)

perlhaiku - Perl version 5.10+ on Haiku

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

This file contains instructions how to build Perl for Haiku and lists known problems.

# [BUILD AND INSTALL](#BUILD_AND_INSTALL)

The build procedure is completely standard:

```
  ./Configure -de
  make
  make install
```

Make perl executable and create a symlink for libperl:

```
  chmod a+x /boot/common/bin/perl
  cd /boot/common/lib; ln -s perl5/5.44.0/BePC-haiku/CORE/libperl.so .
```

Replace 5.44.0 with your respective version of Perl.

# [KNOWN PROBLEMS](#KNOWN_PROBLEMS)

The following problems are encountered with Haiku revision 28311:

- Perl cannot be compiled with threading support ATM.
- The *cpan/Socket/t/socketpair.t* test fails. More precisely: the subtests using datagram sockets fail. Unix datagram sockets aren't implemented in Haiku yet.
- A subtest of the *cpan/Sys-Syslog/t/syslog.t* test fails. This is due to Haiku not implementing */dev/log* support yet.
- The tests *dist/Net-Ping/t/450\_service.t* and *dist/Net-Ping/t/510\_ping\_udp.t* fail. This is due to bugs in Haiku's network stack implementation.

# [CONTACT](#CONTACT)

For Haiku specific problems contact the HaikuPorts developers: <https://github.com/haikuports/haikuports>

The initial Haiku port was done by Ingo Weinhold <ingo\_weinhold@gmx.de>.

Last update: 2008-10-29

2026-10-21 perl v5.44.0

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Document: perlhaiku(1) from perl 5.44.0-r2 (Chainguard OS)
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