Re: [wxperl-users] compiling wxperl with cygwin

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

Cygwin can be treated as "UNIX" as far as wxPerl is concerned.

> I'm trying to install wxperl on a windows xp machine with cygwin. I'm new to 
> unix and am having trouble compiling wxperl. I followed the wxPerl Compiling 
> Guide by Graciliano M.P. as well as I could and managed to compile 
His tutorial is for MinGW, not Cygwin, BTW

> wxwindows. When I try to create the makefile (perl Makefile.PL) it gives me 
> the error:
> Can't exec "wx-config": No such file or directory at
> /cygdrive/c/wxperl/src/wxPerl/build/Any_wx_config.pm line 27.
Under Cygwin you need to do "make install" for wxWindows
( and compile wxWindows with ./configure, make, make install );

> many many times (maybe 30).
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Be warned that I managed to compile wxperl under Cygwin, but
it gave me a misterious crash on startup I could not debug.

Regards
Mattia