HiPi is a Perl distribution that you install into the
existing Perl on your Raspberry Pi.

This release of HiPi is tested against the
current Raspbian release.

For a simple installation on latest Raspbian download
the deb package from https://hipi.znix.com/install.html
   
For a cpan or source build you may wish to install dependencies first

sudo apt update
sudo apt install libmodule-build-perl \
                 libdevice-serialport-perl \
                 libfile-copy-recursive-perl \
                 libfile-slurp-perl \
                 libjson-perl \
                 libtry-tiny-perl \
                 libuniversal-require-perl \
                 libio-epoll-perl \
                 libimage-imlib2-perl \
                 libbit-vector-perl \
                 libxml-libxml-perl \
                 libwww-perl \
                 libperl-dev \
                 zlib1g-dev \
                 i2c-dev


cpan -i HiPi

or download the source from cpan or
   https://hipi.znix.com/install.html
   
   build with
   perl Build.PL
   perl Build
   perl Build test
   perl Build install