Re: [wxperl-users] Perl Exec Packagers on Win32 in general

[Peter R. <Pet...@ho...>]

Hi,

It's great to see that you're getting to the bottom of this!

I noticed one small issue here

   $WINDLLS = {   net => { file => "wxbase${wx_pre}_net_${wx_post}.dll", loaded => 0 },
                  xml => { file => "wxbase${wx_pre}_xml_${wx_post}.dll", loaded => 0 },
                  html => { file => "wxmsw${wx_pre}_html_${wx_post}.dll", loaded => 0 },
                  core => { file => "wxmsw${wx_pre}_core_${wx_post}.dll", loaded => 0 },
                  adv => { file => "wxmsw${wx_pre}_adv_${wx_post}.dll", loaded => 0 },
                  xrc => { file => "wxmsw${wx_pre}_xrc_${wx_post}.dll", loaded => 0 },
                  stc => { file => "wxmsw${wx_pre}_stc_${wx_post}.dll", loaded => 0 },
                  media => { file => "wxmsw${wx_pre}_media_${wx_post}.dll", loaded => 0 },
              };


is that, when Wx/GLCanvas.pm is installed, it calls the same
Wx::load_dll( 'gl' );  function to load the 'gl' dll as the
other modules do, but that isn't handled here.

(It's an odd case.  The sourceforge binary PPM packages for
Wx::GLCanvas include only the wrapper DLL (GLCanvas.dll) but
not the required wxWidgets DLL (wxmsw26u_gl_gcc_custom.dll),
whereas the main wxPerl PPM pack includes the wxWidgets DLL
but doesn't ever load or refer to it as far as I can tell
(same for 'media').  Anyway, I didn't see it built in your
binary packages so I thought I'd mention this.)

It might also be worthwhile to futureproof against
Wx::load_dll('new_contrib').

Anyway, great work.  I'm sure it will be a big help to PDK users!

PWR