Unusable Perl 5.36 build - compilation failures due to various dll files not loading is a separate issue to the issue of compilation failing due to attempt to reload Net/SSleay.pm being aborted, so I would like to keep the topics separate.
If anything, the part of my opening post above starting from ‘I am also seeing this compilation failure for SSL:’ onwards could be removed as it is covered in the other topic about dlls not being found.
This topic could be merged onto the end of Attempt to reload Net/SSLeay.pm aborted.
The message about the dll not being found gives the full path to the dll, e.g.
Can’t load ‘C:/Perl-5.36/site/lib/auto/Net/SSLeay/SSLeay.dll’ for module Net::SSLeay: load_file:The specified module could not be found at C:/Perl-5.36/lib/DynaLoader.pm line 206.
therefore the path is known, and so I think there is nothing to be gained from adding it to PATH. However, as you asked I tried it so that I could answer your question. It makes no difference.