Re: [wxperl-users] WxPerl on FreeBSD?

[Mattia B. <mb...@ds...>]

> Has anyone built WxPerl on FreeBSD? The problem is that Perl on FreeBSD
> is built without pthreads, but wxwindows is built with pthreads.
 
> perl5 Makefile.PL complains about library settings it inherits from
> gtk-config:
> 
> % /usr/local/bin/perl5 Makefile.PL
> Checking if your kit is complete...
> Looks good
> Unrecognized argument in LIBS ignored: '-Wl,-E'
> Unrecognized argument in LIBS ignored: '-pthread'
I don't know if I can work around this ( for all platforms ), but I'll try

> Wheb built this way, "make test" reports it can't find pthread_create.
> 
> Manually sprinkling a bunch of "-pthread"s and "-lc_r" gets it to build,
did you add -Wl,-E, too? 

> but predictably with this voodoo the extension is not very stable (a bit
> of clicking around in demo/samples/controls/controls.pl and some
> resizing, and foom: a Perl crash without further traceback in xdr_u_int;
> obviously a threadsafe/no threadsafe mismatch).
> 
> FreeBSD 4.4, the Perl that came with it (5.005_03), wxWindows build from
> the ports collection of FreeBSD 4.4 (wxgtk-2.2.7,1).
You might try to rebuild wxWindows with --disable-threads ( and maybe
gtk/glib ? ); unfortunately I can't reproduce this, because I don't
havd FreeBSD, and on Linux building wxWindows with threads and perl without does work 
just fine.

Regards
Mattia