Note (probably harmless): No library found for -ltidy It seems that you don't have libtidy installed. HTML::Tidy does no real work on its own. See the section "INSTALLING LIBTIDY" in Tidy.pm for a step-by-step walkthrough of building the lib. You can also refer to http://tidy.sourceforge.net/. If you do have libtidy installed, and I just haven't detected it, go ahead and try building. If HTML::Tidy builds and tests correctly, then please let Andy Lester know at bug-html-tidy@rt.cpan.org so that he can fix the library detection code. Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Note (probably harmless): No library found for -ltidy Writing Makefile for HTML::Tidy cp lib/HTML/Tidy/Message.pm blib/lib/HTML/Tidy/Message.pm cp lib/HTML/Tidy.pm blib/lib/HTML/Tidy.pm /home/cpanrun/build/5.6.1/bin/perl -I/home/cpanrun/build/5.6.1/lib/5.6.1/i686-linux-thread-multi -I/home/cpanrun/build/5.6.1/lib/5.6.1 /home/cpanrun/build/5.6.1/lib/5.6.1/ExtUtils/xsubpp -typemap /home/cpanrun/build/5.6.1/lib/5.6.1/ExtUtils/typemap Tidy.xs > Tidy.xsc && mv Tidy.xsc Tidy.c Error: 'const char *' not in typemap in Tidy.xs, line 49 Error: 'const char *' not in typemap in Tidy.xs, line 50 Error: 'const char *' not in typemap in Tidy.xs, line 110 Error: 'const char *' not in typemap in Tidy.xs, line 111 make: *** [Tidy.c] Error 1