--- hexchat-git-180414.old/plugins/perl/meson.build
+++ hexchat-git-180414/plugins/perl/meson.build
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 if ret.returncode() != 0
   error('perl: Failed to get ldflags')
 endif
-perl_ldflags = []
+perl_ldflags = [ '-lperl' ]
 perl_rpath = ''
 foreach flag : ret.stdout().strip().split(' ')
   if flag.startswith('-L') or flag.startswith('-l')