I found this sufficient of an obstacle that I wanted to post about it for future posterity.

I was able to cpanm Google::ProtocolBuffers::Dynamic after installing these packages on Debian Trixie.

• build-essential (unsurprisingly)
• cmake
• libprotobuf-dev
• libprotoc-dev

The last library eluded me and caused the most frustration. Anyway on to other things.

I wrote a follow up of my previous article on dev-to. It is titled Manage the health of your CLI tools at scale and explores how you might approach instrumenting your cli tools to ensure they run properly.