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

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

Hi,
thanks for all the replies.
It turns out that I really did need to compile wxwidgets/perl myself,
because I also wanted to compile Wx::ActiveX, which requires a built
wxwidgets source tree.
I discovered the make errors I was getting with the supplied wxwidgets
makefiles were caused by having cygwin (sh) in my PATH.  After
removing cygwin from my PATH, wxwidgets compiled successfully with
mingw32-make and the supplied makefiles.
There is a minor error in the Wx docs/INSTALL.pod under the MinGW 1.1
(wxWidgets 2.5.x) section:
where it says cd ..\..\contrib\src\stc, I believe this should be
..\..\contrib\build\stc.

Attached are patches (adapted from Simon Flack's patches on the
Wx::ActiveX cpan page) I applied to Wx::ActiveX 0.05 to compile
against wxwidgets 2.6 (cvs head) and 2.8.0 respectively.

There is one (minor) remaining issue.
The wxPerl installation we are currently using (the wxPerl 0.26/
wxwidgets 2.6.2 binary release) picks up the wxwidgets dlls
automatically from lib/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread/auto/Wx/*.dll.
My compiled version doesn't find the dlls automatically, I have to add
lib/auto/Wx (where they were installed) to my PATH.  Does anyone know
the reason for this, and is there a way to make my compiled dlls be
found automatically (without adding the directory to PATH)?  I have
tried copying them to $arch/auto/Wx but no joy.

cheers,
Andrew