Installing the HandlerSocket PERL client libraries

The HandlerSocket client libraries for PERL are included with the HandlerSocket source code. In this recipe, we'll compile and install them.

Getting ready

In order to build the HandlerSocket PERL client library, we need to install some development tools and packages. First, we need to install the libhsclient library as described in the Installing the libhsclient library recipe earlier in this chapter. Then, we need to install some PERL development tools.

On Red Hat, Fedora, or CentOS, run the following command:

sudo yum install perl-devel perl-Test-Simple

On Debian or Ubuntu, run the following command to install the necessary packages:

sudo apt-get install libperl-dev

We are now ready to install the HandlerSocket PERL client library.

How to do it...

1. Open a command-line window.

2. Change to the perl-Net-HandlerSocket directory in the HandlerSocket source directory as follows:

   cd /usr/local/src/HandlerSocket-Plugin-for-MySQL-master/
   cd perl-Net-HandlerSocket...