[wxperl-users] compiling wxPerl under Mac OS X

[Dave R. <dav...@ma...>]

I'm trying my hand at this using the latest CVS versions of wxMAC and 
wxPerl.

a couple of months ago...

my previous attempt at installing wxMAC was unsuccessful. everything 
appeared to compile and install, and running the minimal sample brought 
up a window, yet I was unable to interact with it.

my previous attempt at installing wxPerl (0.10, along with the previous 
attempt at wxMAC) appeared to compile and install. I've never been able 
to run the wxPerl minimal sample, although perl -c minimal.pl would 
compile.

and now...

my latest attempt at installing wxMAC appears to have been successful. 
the above problems are no longer apparent and all the samples I have run 
appear to work as expected.

my latest attempts at installing wxPerl (0.10 and 0.11) are not going 
well, but giving different results. I gave up trying to install 0.10 as 
it appears MenuItems work differently. as my previous attempt compiled 
(yet didn't run), I assumed that wxMAC had changed and that I would need 
wxPerl 0.11 to continue.

when trying to get 0.11 to compile, I found the following:

1) /distrib/mac/shared-ld-sh
the Makefiles that Makefile.PL outputs contains this reference. under 
0.10, the output used to be "c++ -shared".

2) wxRegion::Offset
Wx.c: In function `void XS_Wx__Region_Offset(CV *)':
Wx.c:7100: no matching function for call to `wxRegion::Offset 
(wxCoord &, wxCoord &)'

3) ColourDialog
Frames.c: In function `void XS_Wx__ColourDialog_new(CV *)':
Frames.c:5330: invalid use of undefined type `class Wx_ColourDialog'
cpp/typedef.h:140: forward declaration of `class Wx_ColourDialog'
Frames.c:5332: type `wxObject' is not a base type for type 
`Wx_ColourDialog'
XS/ColourDialog.xs: In function `void 
XS_Wx__ColourDialog_GetColourData(CV *)':
XS/ColourDialog.xs:25: invalid use of undefined type `class 
wxGenericColourDialog'
cpp/typedef.h:140: forward declaration of `class wxGenericColourDialog'
Frames.c: In function `void XS_Wx__ColourDialog_ShowModal(CV *)':
Frames.c:5370: invalid use of undefined type `class 
wxGenericColourDialog'
cpp/typedef.h:140: forward declaration of `class wxGenericColourDialog'

4) Wx_Cursor *newImage()
XS/Cursor.xs: In function `void XS_Wx__Cursor_newImage(CV *)':
XS/Cursor.xs:46: no matching function for call to `wxCursor::wxCursor 
(wxImage &)'

5) Wx_Icon::LoadFile()
XS/Icon.xs: In function `void XS_Wx__Icon_LoadFile(CV *)':
XS/Icon.xs:99: no matching function for call to `wxIcon::LoadFile 
(wxString &, long int &)'

6) Wx_Bitmap::SetMask()
XS/Bitmap.xs: In function `void XS_Wx__Bitmap_SetMask(CV *)':
/usr/local/include/wx/mac/bitmap.h:35: `wxMask::wxMask(const wxMask &)' 
is private
XS/Bitmap.xs:328: within this context

having "worked around" those, I got everything to compile without other 
errors. unsurprisingly, perl minimal.pl still compiles but fails to 
display a window.

I would very much like to see wxPerl running under OS X and am available 
to any extent to help with compiling, test, debugging. I hope the above 
is helpful - please let me know what other steps I can take to help.

regards,
/dave