managing the NAS. There are several flavours of hardware: Marvell
Armada (ARMv5tel, ARMv7l), Intel Atom (i686, x86_64), Freescale QorIQ
(PPC), and more. For a full list see the
-L<Synology FAQ|http://forum.synology.com/wiki/index.php/What_kind_of_CPU_does_my_NAS_have>.
+L<Synology FAQ|https://forum.synology.com/wiki/index.php/What_kind_of_CPU_does_my_NAS_have>.
Since it is based on Linux, the NAS can run many popular Linux
software packages, including Perl. In fact, Synology provides a
ready-to-install package for Perl, depending on the version of DSM
-the installed perl ranges from 5.8.6 on DSM-4.3 to 5.18.4 on DSM-6.0.1.
+the installed perl ranges from 5.8.6 on DSM-4.3 to 5.24.0 on DSM-6.1.
There is an active user community that provides many software packages
for the Synology DSM systems; at the time of writing this document
-they provide Perl version 5.18.4.
+they provide Perl version 5.24.1.
This document describes various features of Synology DSM operating
system that will affect how Perl 5 (hereafter just Perl) is
As DSM is a trimmed-down Linux system, it lacks many of the tools and
libraries commonly found on Linux. The basic tools like sh, cp, rm,
etc. are implemented using
-L<BusyBox|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BusyBox>.
+L<BusyBox|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BusyBox>.
=over 4
In Settings, add the following Package Sources:
- http://www.cphub.net
+ https://www.cphub.net
http://packages.quadrat4.de
=item *
L<Install Entware-ng on Synology NAS|https://github.com/Entware-ng/Entware-ng/wiki/Install-on-Synology-NAS>
That sadly does not (yet) work on QorIQ. At the moment of writing, the
-supported architectures are armv5, armv7, mipsel, x86_32 and x86_64.
+supported architectures are armv5, armv7, mipsel, wl500g, x86_32, and x86_64.
+Check L<here|https://pkg.entware.net/binaries/> for supported platforms.
-Entware-ng comes with a precompiled 5.22.1 (June 2016) that allowes
+Entware-ng comes with a precompiled 5.24.1 (June 2017) that allowes
building shared XS code. Note that this installation does B<not> use
-a site_perl folder.
+a site_perl folder. The available C<cpan> works. If all required
+development packages are installed too, also for XS.
=head2 Compiling Perl 5
=head1 REVISION
-June 2016, for Synology DSM 5.1.5022 and DSM 6.0.1-7393.
+June 2017, for Synology DSM 5.1.5022 and DSM 6.1-15101-4.
=head1 AUTHOR