Re: [wxperl-users] a bunch of missing libraries during Wx-057 build

[Mattia B. <mat...@li...>]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:33:03 -0700 (PDT)
Sergei Steshenko <ser...@ya...> wrote:

> The point is wxGtk remains the same as it was for Wx-0.26. So I do not understand
> why now build script(s) for Wx-0.57 complain.

  Do you have a libwx*stc*.so installed alongside the other
wxWidgets libraries? Did you pass 
 
> - the line which particularly bothers me is
> 
> Attempt to free unreferenced scalar: SV 0x87609e8 at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
> line 183.
> line bothers me very much because it looks like a problem in Perl's binary guts.

  I get it all the times I forget to build STC. While the warning indicates
a possible, problem in Perl, I would not worry much about it.
 
> Unfortunately, building Wx-Perl has become more difficult, and after addition of
> Alien::<whatever> mechanism Makefile.PL is still needed, though the intent of
> Alien::<whatever> mechanism is to get rid of the whole ExtUtils::MakeMaker and
> Makefile.PL stuff altogether ...

  IMO it has not, it is just the procedure that has changed. For what
is worth, the scripts I use to make binary releases have become much
smaller after the introduction of Alien::wxWidgets.

  And the intento of Alien was never to replace Makefile.PL, as it is
explained in the Alien manifesto.

Regards
Mattia