diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.36.0.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.36.0.bb
index 4456cdbcfb..ead7dace16 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.36.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.36.0.bb
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[gdbm] = ",-Ui_gdbm,gdbm"
 # Don't generate comments in enc2xs output files. They are not reproducible
 export ENC2XS_NO_COMMENTS = "1"
 
+CFLAGS += "-D_GNU_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
+
 do_configure:prepend() {
     cp -rfp ${STAGING_DATADIR_NATIVE}/perl-cross/* ${S}
 }