perl-win32-gui-users

[perl-win32-gui-users] AS Perl 5.20 Win32-GUI PPM missing modules

[John M. <li...@js...>]

Hi

Win32-GUI installed via ActiveState PPM repository for AS Perl 5.20 
seems to be missing some modules compared to AS Perl 5.14 and the CPAN 
tarball.

Specifically the following:
AxWindow.pm
DIBitmap.pm
Grid.pm
HyperLink.pm
SplashScreen.pm
XMLBuilder.pm

This applies to the current version of Win32-GUI v1.12 and its 
predecessor v1.11 AFAIK. Is there a particular reason for this or is it 
an oversite. Specifically I use Grid in a couple of apps and this is 
deferring an upgrade.

John

-- 
Regards
    John McMahon
       li...@js...

Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] AS Perl 5.20 Win32-GUI PPM missing modules

[kmx <km...@at...>]

IMO the reason is that somewhere between 5.14 and 5.20 Active State 
switched from Microsoft compiler to gcc compiler.

Grid.pm requires MFC - not available for gcc/mingw-w64
AxWindow.pm requires Active Template Library (ATL) - not supported by 
gcc/mingw-w64
DIBitmap.pm can be fixed for gcc/mingw-w64

The rest are not part of Win32-GUI distribution:
HyperLink.pm is a separate module 
https://metacpan.org/pod/Win32::GUI::HyperLink
SplashScreen.pm is a separate module 
https://metacpan.org/pod/Win32::GUI::SplashScreen
XMLBuilder.pm separate module https://metacpan.org/pod/Win32::GUI::XMLBuilder

--
kmx

On 8.6.2015 16:18, John McMahon wrote:
> Hi
>
> Win32-GUI installed via ActiveState PPM repository for AS Perl 5.20
> seems to be missing some modules compared to AS Perl 5.14 and the CPAN
> tarball.
>
> Specifically the following:
> AxWindow.pm
> DIBitmap.pm
> Grid.pm
> HyperLink.pm
> SplashScreen.pm
> XMLBuilder.pm
>
> This applies to the current version of Win32-GUI v1.12 and its
> predecessor v1.11 AFAIK. Is there a particular reason for this or is it
> an oversite. Specifically I use Grid in a couple of apps and this is
> deferring an upgrade.
>
> John
>