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Asked: June 18, 20262026-06-18T18:38:08+00:00 2026-06-18T18:38:08+00:00

I’m working on a Perl project that requires Event::Lib. I’m on MacOS 10.7, and

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I’m working on a Perl project that requires Event::Lib. I’m on MacOS 10.7, and am running Citrus Perl instead of the system Perl. I installed libevent from source and it compiled fine. But, when I go to install Event::Lib, I run into some errors:

cp Lib/Event/Lib.pm blib/lib/Event/Lib.pm
Skip blib/lib/Event/Lib.pm (unchanged)
/Users/username/code/CitrusPerl/bin/perl /Users/username/code/CitrusPerl/lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp  -typemap /Users/username/code/CitrusPerl/lib/ExtUtils/typemap -typemap typemap  Lib.xs > Lib.xsc && mv Lib.xsc Lib.c
gcc -c  -I/usr/local/include -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -no-cpp-precomp -arch i386 -B/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.8.sdk/usr/include/gcc -B/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.8.sdk/usr/lib/gcc -isystem /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.8.sdk/usr/include -F/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.8.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks -mmacosx-version-min=10.6 -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE -Duselargefiles -DPERL_RELOCATABLE_INCPUSH -fno-merge-constants -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector  -O3   -DVERSION=\"1.03\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.03\"  "-I/Users/username/code/CitrusPerl/lib/CORE"  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  Lib.c
Lib.xs: In function ‘boot_Event__Lib’:
Lib.xs:275: error: ‘LOG_LEVEL’ undeclared (first use in this function)
Lib.xs:275: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
Lib.xs:275: error: for each function it appears in.)
make: *** [Lib.o] Error 1

Does anyone have any ideas on what to try next?

EDIT: After attempting some ‘o conf’ options:

cpan[1]> o conf makepl_arg "INC=-I/usr/local/include LIBS=-L/usr/local/lib -levent"                                                             
    makepl_arg         [INC=-I/usr/local/include LIBS=-L/usr/local/lib -levent]
Your /Users/username/code/CitrusPerl/vendor/lib/CPAN/Config.pm file
is not writable. I will attempt to write your configuration to
/Users/username/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm instead.

Old configuration file /Users/username/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm
    moved to /Users/username/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm.bak
commit: wrote '/Users/username/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm'

cpan[2]> install Event::Lib                                                                                                                     
Reading '/Users/username/code/CitrusPerl/cpan/Metadata'
  Database was generated on Thu, 07 Feb 2013 21:53:02 GMT
Fetching with LWP:
http://www.perl.org/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
Reading '/Users/username/code/CitrusPerl/cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz'
............................................................................DONE
Fetching with LWP:
http://www.perl.org/CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
Reading '/Users/username/code/CitrusPerl/cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz'
  Database was generated on Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:41:03 GMT
............................................................................DONE
Fetching with LWP:
http://www.perl.org/CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gz
Reading '/Users/username/code/CitrusPerl/cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz'
............................................................................DONE
Writing /Users/username/code/CitrusPerl/cpan/Metadata
Running install for module 'Event::Lib'
Running make for V/VP/VPARSEVAL/Event-Lib-1.03.tar.gz
Fetching with LWP:
http://www.perl.org/CPAN/authors/id/V/VP/VPARSEVAL/Event-Lib-1.03.tar.gz
Checksum for /Users/username/code/CitrusPerl/cpan/sources/authors/id/V/VP/VPARSEVAL/Event-Lib-1.03.tar.gz ok
Scanning cache /Users/username/code/CitrusPerl/cpan/build for sizes
............................................................................DONE

  CPAN.pm: Building V/VP/VPARSEVAL/Event-Lib-1.03.tar.gz

Checking existance of libevent...ld: warning: directory not found for option '-L/sw/lib'
ld: warning: directory not found for option '-L/opt/local/lib'
yes
Checking capabilities...
  event_set_log_callback...no
  event_priority_init...no
Additional defines:  

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for Event::Lib
Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json
cp Lib/Event/Lib.pm blib/lib/Event/Lib.pm
Skip blib/lib/Event/Lib.pm (unchanged)
/Users/username/code/CitrusPerl/bin/perl /Users/username/code/CitrusPerl/lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp  -typemap /Users/username/code/CitrusPerl/lib/ExtUtils/typemap -typemap typemap  Lib.xs > Lib.xsc && mv Lib.xsc Lib.c
gcc -c  -I/usr/local/include -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -no-cpp-precomp -arch i386 -B/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.8.sdk/usr/include/gcc -B/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.8.sdk/usr/lib/gcc -isystem /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.8.sdk/usr/include -F/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.8.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks -mmacosx-version-min=10.6 -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE -Duselargefiles -DPERL_RELOCATABLE_INCPUSH -fno-merge-constants -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector  -O3   -DVERSION=\"1.03\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.03\"  "-I/Users/username/code/CitrusPerl/lib/CORE"  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  Lib.c
Lib.xs: In function ‘boot_Event__Lib’:
Lib.xs:275: error: ‘LOG_LEVEL’ undeclared (first use in this function)
Lib.xs:275: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
Lib.xs:275: error: for each function it appears in.)
make: *** [Lib.o] Error 1
  VPARSEVAL/Event-Lib-1.03.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/make -- NOT OK
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
Failed during this command:
 VPARSEVAL/Event-Lib-1.03.tar.gz              : make NO
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    2026-06-18T18:38:11+00:00Added an answer on June 18, 2026 at 6:38 pm

    I was able to get this to work in about 10 minutes time.

    • Use Perlbrew
    • Use Homebrew

    Then:

    • brew install libevent
    • perlbrew install perl-5.16.0
    • perlbrew switch perl-5.16.0
    • perl -MCPAN -e ‘install Event::Lib’

    I think the above are the best utilities to provide a proper development environment that you can switch up; IE you can switch Perl versions of the fly. Additionally they wont impact your native system. Anyways if you decide not to use the aforementioned, your particular error looks to be about a missing header file. I would assert that the libevent headers are indeed in /usr/local/include.

    Good luck.

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