Re: [wxperl-users] Re: Updated build instructions - care to review?

[Mattia B. <mb...@ds...>]

> Mattia,
> 
>    I saw the docs. It's very nice, show every thing, specially the problems
> for the FakeConfig to build with MingW, the commands to build the wxWindows
> DLLs, but I have some things to add:
Good, I like user feedback on this topic :-)

>   - Tell to don't forget to set the MinGW version in the file
> z:/path/to/wx/src/makeg95.env
>     > MINGW32VERSION=2.95.3
>     Or you CAN'T compile wxWindows with MingW 1.1
>     With the previus version of MinGW you have to fix to much bugs to
> compile wxWindows & wxPerl, just impossible.
I didn't know that; for me, (GCC 2.95.3-6) it works without changing the
version; strange, will investigate

>   - In the commands to compile with MinGW, you use 'dmake', but you don't
> say anything about this in the comments.
>     Put the URL too, like the extra:
> http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/GSAR/dmake-4.1pl1-win32.zip
Good catch!

>   - The only missed command now is:
>     > SET MINGWDIR=c:\mingw
>     This is about the MinGW installation, but we have to think in who don't
> know MingW, or compilers too. :-P
Why do you need this? What does happen if you don't set it?
Personally, I never have set it (even when I used Win95).

>   - Put the MinGW URL, to be more easy for the user:
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/MinGW-1.1.tar.gz
>     Some peoples know MinGW from Cygwin or the Perl build instructions, are
> using old version and don't know about MinGW 1.1 and the project inside
> sourceforge.
Fixed

Thanks!
Mattia