If you are on a Linux machine, you'd ideally not have to mess with perlbrew altogether but simply install system packages. polymake is happy with any perl starting with 5.18 which is about 6 years old. But you must have your reasons for using perlbrew, and in this case you can't use system packages...

That doesn't look like Mac OS to me, perlbrew also exists for linux systems. Probably perl from perlbrew needs to be build with shared library support. Maybe passing -Duseshrplib for perl installation solves the problem: perlbrew install perl-<version> -Duseshrplib ? Thank you, this fixed the probl...

I have been trying to install polymake from the source code and I have been getting two errors that may or may not be related. The first of the issues is that when I try to install the perl module XML::LibXSLT with cpan, it does not work. Is there another way to install this module? The other error ...