Re: [wxperl-users] Alien::WxWidgets, wxMSW, mingw

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Ed Heil wrote:
> Hullo!
>
> I've decided that I am going to start working with home-compiled
> versions of wxwidgets and wxperl, so that when I ask about a bug and
> Mattia says "fix is in CVS" I can go get that fix.
>
> I've got a mingw/msys system together.  I compiled wxWidgets using it
> and confirmed the samples worked on a testbed "clean install" of Win
> XP.  (I followed the steps here:
> http://jupiter.dnsalias.net/howto/wxWidgets/wxWidgets_MinGW.jsp )
>
> Now I'd like to roll me up some wxPerl.
>
> I'm using ActiveState perl 5.8.8 build 817 (the latest stable version
> from activestate).
>
> My mingw is configured to see that perl in its PATH as /perl/bin/perl.
>
> I'm not exactly sure where to go from here.  My next step would be to
> install Alien-wxWidgets I guess.  I can't get the cpan shell working
> from within my msys environment.  It says "Set up gcc environment" and
> hangs.  So I downloaded the tarball of Alien-wxWidgets in my msys home
> directory.
>
> I ran perl Build.pl and said "no" I don't want to build wxWidgets.  (I
> already built it, and wx-config is in my path).  It created a Build
> script, which gave me some of the following output (apologies for its
> incompleteness -- I haven't yet figured out how to cut and paste from a
> msys window!) --
>
> Build: blib\lib\Alien\wxWidgets.pm: cannot resolve L<Alien> in paragraph 8.
>
> (some more stuff that doesn't look like errors, then...)
>
> Configuration error: could not find libraries for this configuration at
> inc/My/Build/Win32.pm line 63.
>   
Have you tried to build with mingw? May I ask how did you do that?
>
> Hmmm, I thought.  I'll try saying I *do* want to build the toolkit.   I
> removed the unpacked tarball and unpacked it again, and this time said
> "yes" to the "Do you want to build WxWidgets?" question.
>
> I ran the build script and ended up with the exact same "cannot resolve
> L<Alien> in paragraph 8" and then a "Fetch failed!  404 not found "
> trying to fetch \pub\2.6.3\wxWidgets-2.6.3.yes from
> biolpc22.york.ac.uk'  It then printed "Fetching wxWidgets..." and quit.
>
> I'm going to go back, for now, to the pre-Alien version of wxPerl, but I
> would like to find out how to do this right.  I am very new to
> msys/mingw, but things have gone very well except for the Alien business.
>
>
>
>
> I ran it again and said "yes" I want to build it.
>
>
>
>   
Hi!

You seem to be doing the same as I do.
I have tried to compile it as you do.
As I see there are several ways to go. I have spent a day on it and I 
have found out couple of things.
I don't have a complete solution but someone may be able to finish it.
These may work.
1. Compile WxWidgets in its own and make an entry for it in 
perl\site\lib\Alien\wxWidgets\Config\
  and build/make  Wx.
I have tried this but I am stuck because the makefile.pl does not seem 
to be able to find the new mingw configuration.
2.  Do as you do. I downloaded Visual C++ Studio Express 2005 and set up 
the path like this before calling cpan.bat
set path=C:\WINXP\system32;c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 
8\vc\bin;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 
8\Common7\IDE;d:\m\perl\bin\;
set INCLUDE=<Microsoft Platform SDK>\Include;C:\Programs\Microsoft 
Platform SDK\Include\crt
set LIB=<Microsoft Platform SDK>\lib;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual 
Studio 8\VC\lib
then ,,
"install M/MB/MBARBON/Alien-wxWidgets-0.19.tar.gz"
Then I built it  That was ok... but the generated dlls did not run 
properly...
3. There is a install guide here 
http://search.cpan.org/~mbarbon/Wx-0.55/docs/INSTALL.pod
It looks simple...
For mingw, it says

set WXDIR=z:\path\to\wx
  set WXWIN=z:\path\to\wx
  cd z:\path\to\wx\src\msw
  make -f makefile.g95 FINAL=1 WXMAKINGDLL=1
  cd %WXDIR%\contrib\src\stc
  make -f makefile.g95 FINAL=1 WXUSINGDLL=1
  cd %WXDIR%\contrib\src\xrc
  make -f makefile.g95 FINAL=1 WXUSINGDLL=1

  # now build wxPerl
  # get dmake from http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/GSAR/dmake-4.1pl1-win32.zip
  perl Makefile.PL
  dmake
  dmake test

I tried that too but it failed at 
perl Makefile.PL because it was trying to use CL configuration given by Alien::Widgets.
The problem is 
Alien::Widgets knows only CL...??
I don!t know how to make it use gcc configuration, I can see the code is there, I have not 
 managed to activate it..
Maybe if Alien::Widgets were removed.. 

Regards

Márton Papp