Re: [wxperl-users] Compiling wxPerl with MinGW

[Cheetah <fa...@gm...>]

On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 18:17:35 +0100 (ora solare Europa occidentale),
Mattia Barbon <mat...@li...> wrote:
>   Hello,
> there seems to be quite a lot of interest on this topic :-)
> here are the instructions.

So, here's what I did, and the results I got:

1) Downloaded the MinGW all-in-one and installed it into the default C:\MinGW
2) Installed ExtUtils-FakeConfig from PPM
3) Followed Mattia's instructions for compiling wxMSW-2.5.3
    -- Current MinGW installs make as mignw32-make.exe, so copied that
to make.exe to avoid problems
    -- Because of some weird issues revolving around my usage of the
Safe module, I compiled a non-unicode version, even though I'm
targeting WinXP [1]
< wait a while for wxMSW-2.5.3 to compile >
    -- The makefile.gcc for stc is in $WXDIR\contrib\build\stc, not in
contrib\src\stc
< uninstall ppm package of Wx just in case >
4) Downloaded and unpacked Wx-0.21
5) Set environment vars as instructed by Mattia
6) Build Wx
    -- Setting WXDIR and WXWIN to $WXDIR\build\msw resulted in an error

N:\src\Wx-0.21>set WXDIR=N:\src\wxWidgets-2.5.3\build\msw
N:\src\Wx-0.21>set WXWIN=N:\src\wxWidgets-2.5.3\build\msw
N:\src\Wx-0.21>perl -MConfig_m Makefile.PL
chdir 'N:\src\wxWidgets-2.5.3\build\msw\samples\minimal' at
N:/src/Wx-0.21/build/Wx/build/Config/Win32_MinGW.pm line 27.

I also tried variants of setting one or both of WXDIR/WXWIN to the
base wxMSW-2.5.3 unpack dir, but those each gave their own errors.

Help?

[1] In short, what I've deduced is that character classes and case
insensitivy in regexes when working on unicode text requires pulling
in numerous support files via require, which I have blocked in my
usage of the Safe module.  Since all the text I'm working with is
plain ascii, I just use a non-unicode build of Wx and this ceases to
be a problem.

-- 
    -- Cheetah