Re: [wxlua-users] Build issue with wxGTK 3.0.1

[Philipp Ü. <mu...@tu...>]

On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 18:04:12 -0400
John Labenski <jla...@gm...> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 10:57 PM, Paul K <pau...@ya...>
> wrote:
> 
> > John,
> >
> 
> 
> > Thank you for the update. Curious, can you run a simple script that
> >  checks if GetChildren() is available method for wxWindow? It's been
> > reported that for some reason GetChildren() is not available when
> > compiled with wxgtk3 (3.0.1) on Archlinux:
> >
> > wxLua: Unable to call an unknown method 'GetChildren' on a
> > 'wxWindow' type. stack traceback:
> > [C]: in function '__index'
> > ...
> >
> > I haven't had a chance to test it myself yet, but I can use it when
> > compiled on Windows and it was clearly present in previous versions
> > as well (2.9.x).
> >
> >
> This is because wxList for the STL build is nothing like the old
> wxList and the function signatures are quite different. Add to this
> wx2.8 compatibility and this may take some doing, but luckily the use
> of wxLists in wxLua should be minimal.
> 
> I may just make a new function to return the wxWindow::GetChildren()
> as a Lua table and dispense with any attempt to get list iterators to
> work in Lua. Though this is an incompatible change, the use of
> wxNodes in Lua is awkward at best.
> 
> I have to look at it further.
> 
> Regards,
>     John

The STL-build is caused by the --enable-stl flag in wxGTK, right?
https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/wxgtk

If so then at least for the Arch users of wxLua and zbstudio I can work
around this by creating a wxGTK PKGBUILD without this flag.

Regards,
Philipp