[wxperl-users] Problems compiling wxperl (windows/mingw)

[Andrew <sob...@gm...>]

Hi,
I am having a few problems compiling wxPerl, and I was wondering if
someone on this list could provide any help, perhaps by spotting
something very simple that I am doing wrong.
I am using the following software:

ActivePerl 5.8.6 (build 811)
MinGW 5.0.3
MSYS 1.0.10
nmake 1.50
dmake 2006-06-16 (you can never have enough make programs, apparently)
ExtUtils::FakeConfig 0.05
wxPerl 0.67 (sources)
wxWidgets-2.8.0 (sources)
Alien::wxWidgets 0.27 (sources)

I have included some attachments:
wxwidgets_make.txt                 make output trying to build wxwidgets
wxwidgets_libraries.txt            The libraries I built under
wxwidgets-2.8.0/lib
msw_2_8_0_gcc_3_4.pm     generated by Alien-wxWidgets-0.27.hax0red
wx-0.67_make.txt                      make output trying to build Wx-0.67
Win32_hack.patch                    patch for
Alien-wxWidgets-0.27/inc/My/Build/Win32.pm

######################################################################
# wxwidgets

in docs/msw/install.txt under the MinGW section, it says:

# NOTE: The makefile.gcc makefiles are for compilation under MinGW using
#      Windows command interpreter (command.com/cmd.exe), they won't work in
#      other environments (such as UNIX or Unix-like, e.g. MSYS where you have
#      to use configure instead, see the section below)
#
#  > cd c:\wx\build\msw
#  > make -f makefile.gcc BUILD=debug

The problem with this is I don't have a 'make' under windows.  I have 'dmake'
and 'nmake', and a C:\msys\1.0\bin\make.exe (but that is part of
MSYS).   none of those seemed to work.  See attachment
"wxwidgets_make.txt".

So then I tried the configure script approach under MinGW:

> export WXDIR=/d/build/wxWidgets-2.8.0
> cd $WXDIR
> ./configure --with-msw --enable-shared --enable-optimise --prefix=/d/opt/wxWidgets-2.8.0
> make
> make install
> cd contrib/src/stc
> make
> make install

This worked.  See attachment "wxwidgets_libraries.txt" for the files that were
build under $WXDIR/lib/.

######################################################################
# Alien::wxWidgets:

(in a dos shell)
> set WXDIR=D:\build\wxWidgets-2.8.0
> set PERL5OPT=-MConfig_m
> set PATH=D:\opt\wxWidgets-2.8.0\bin;%PATH%
> perl Build.PL --with-msw --enable-shared --enable-optimise
Do you want to build wxWidgets? [no]
no

> perl Build
Configuration error: could not find libraries for configuration: ''
'28' at inc/My/Build/Win32.pm line 73.

It seems the wxwidgets supplied makefiles (makefile.gcc etc) build libraries in
different places (lib/gcc_dll) than the makefiles generated by configure (lib).
Also the files must be named slightly differently, as the logic in Win32.pm
didn't find them even when i copied them to the place it was expecting
(lib/gcc_dll).

(copying wxwidgets files to the places they are expected, under MinGW)
> cd $WXDIR
> mkdir lib/gcc_dll
> cp lib/*.dll lib/*.a lib/gcc_dll
> mkdir -p lib/gcc_dll/msw/wx
> cp lib/wx/include/msw-ansi-release-2.8/wx/setup.h lib/gcc_dll/msw/wx/

I then made nasty hacks to Win32.pm (see attachment "Win32_hack.patch") and
then ended up with Alien-wxWidgets-0.27.hax0red.  The config generated by this
is also attached - but I suspect there's something wrong with it.  see
attachment "msw_2_8_0_gcc_3_4.pm".

######################################################################
# wxPerl

(in a dos shell)
> cd D:\build\Wx-0.67
> set PERL5OPT=-MConfig_m
> set WXDIR=D:\build\wxWidgets-2.8.0
> perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=Y:\Wx-2.8.0-0.67

here I get many "Note (probably harmless): No library found for -l*" warnings

> dmake

here I get a fatal error:
C:/Perl/lib/CORE/win32.h:219: error: redeclaration of C++ built-in type `int'
C:/Perl/lib/CORE/win32.h:220: error: redeclaration of C++ built-in type `int'

Those lines are:
typedef long    uid_t;
typedef long    gid_t;

so I commented those lines out and tried again.

> dmake

see attachment "wx-0.67_make.txt" for the output.  It looks like the relevant
wxwidgets dll or .a is not being passed to g++, so there are undefined
references.  I suspect this is because my hacked version of Alien::wxWidgets
has generated an erroneous config file?  I have tried disabling components, eg
perl Makefile.PL --disable-richtext but I run into similar errors (undefined
references) with everything.

Any suggestions or help you can provide would be much appreciated (about any
stage of the process).

cheers,
Andrew