To install the Perl and C libraries, simply run: perl Makefile.PL && make install The libapreq.a and header files will be installed in the Perl architecture dependent library. See the Apache::libapreq module for routines that can be called by your application Makefile to find the include and linker arguments. To build libapreq without the Makefile.PL, run: (cd c && make -f Makefile.noperl)