Error "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lperl"

[Christmas]

I'm trying to install OpenMortal which is a Mortal Kombat clone. The problem is that after the "make" command it does something and then I get an error:

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lperl
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [openmortal] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/christmas/openmortal-0.7/src'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

The same goes with other programs. What is this lperl and how should I get rid of this error?

[Footissimo]

sudo apt-get install libperl-dev

Umm..also check you have libperl installed, if you haven't already

Hope that helps

edit: perl is a programming language

[Christmas]

Thanks a lot, that made it.

edit: perl is a programming language

Yep I know that, I didn't know what should I install to make it work.

[fonggiding]

Installing the above sure helped my problem! thanks. For reference, I was installing ImageMagick.
Thanks!