Perl binding for GDAL on Debian 12 (Bookworm)
The XS based binding for Perl included with the Gdal library has been dropped with the release of GDAL 3.5.0 on May of 2022. Therefore, bookworm has not more a gdal-perl package available, as in the past releases of Debian.
A new CPAN module Geo::GDAL::FFI, based on the FFI interface to external libraries is available, so the Perl developers can use the usual cpan tool to install it or eventually consider to use the Debian way to build Perl modules to install system-wide the new module, making it usable by any user.
Unfortunately, both the processes are not straightforward, so this page describes the workflow to install properly all dependencies in the right order to build Geo::GDAL::FFI. First of all install sudo and add your user to the sudo admin group. All the following operations will download source packages of CPAN modules from the net, so avoid to use dh-make-perl as a privileged user.
sudo apt install dh-make-perl build-essential cmake sudo apt install libgdal-dev sudo apt install libtest-harness-perl sudo apt install libtest2-suite-perl sudo apt install libffi-checklib-perl sudo apt install libpkgconfig-perl mkdir ~/perl-stuff && cd ~/perl-stuff dh-make-perl --build --cpan Alien::Build sudo dpkg -i libalien-build-perl_*_amd64.deb sudo apt install libarchive-extract-perl libshell-guess-perl dh-make-perl --build --cpan Alien::Base::ModuleBuild dpkg -i libalien-base-modulebuild-perl_*_all.deb dh-make-perl --build --cpan Alien::geos::af dpkg -i libalien-geos-af-perl_*_all.deb dh-make-perl --build --cpan Mozilla::CA dpkg -i libmozilla-ca-perl_*_all.deb sudo apt install sqlite3 dh-make-perl --build --cpan Alien::sqlite dpkg -i libalien-sqlite-perl_*_all.deb dh-make-perl --build --cpan Alien::Build::Plugin::PkgConfig::PPWrapper sudo dpkg -i libalien-build-plugin-pkgconfig-ppwrapper-perl_*_all.deb dh-make-perl --build --cpan Alien::proj sudo dpkg -i libalien-proj-perl_*_all.deb dh-make-perl --build --cpan Alien::libtiff sudo dpkg -i libalien-libtiff-perl_*_all.deb dh-make-perl --build --cpan Alien::GDAL sudo dpkg -i libalien-gdal-perl_*_all.deb sudo apt install pdl libffi-platypus-perl dh-make-perl --build --cpan FFI::Platypus::Declare sudo dpkg -i libffi-platypus-declare-perl_*_all.deb dh-make-perl --build --cpan Geo::GDAL::FFI sudo dpkg -i libgeo-gdal-ffi-perl_*_all.deb