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

[Mattia B. <mat...@li...>]

On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 22:14:41 +0200
Mattia Barbon <mat...@li...> wrote:

  Hi again,

> do not use MSYS, just plain old MinGW. Make sure to install the
> native mingw32-make.exe.
>=20
> - Unpack Alien::wxWidgets somewhere.
> - copy the wxWidgets archive to that directory (or let A::wx download it)
> - perl Build.PL
>   - yes: you want to build wxWidgets! let Alien do it for you
>     unless you *really* know you do not want to
>   - specify the correct extension for the archive (tar.gz works for me
>     even under Windows)
> - perl Build
> - perl Build install
>=20
> - unpack wxPerl
> - perl Makefile.PL
> - nmake
> - nmake install
>=20
>   Report any failure here.
>=20
>   It can work inside CPAN, but first make sure you are able to build
> a simple XS module from CPAN, to check your setup is sane.

  Hi discovered (after M=E1rton Papp reported some more problems in
private mail) that ActivePerl build 817 has a glitch in the way
the MinGW build environment is set up that causes Alien::wxWidgets,
wxPerl and I suspect other nontrivial XS modules to fail.

  To work around this you should install ExtUtils::FakeConfig 0.06
(make sure MinGW is in path, then do the ususal 'Perl Makefile.PL;
make; make install' dance), then

  set PERL5OPT=3D-MConfig_m
  <build and install Alien>
  <build and install wxPerl>

HTH
Mattia

 =20