From: Mattia B. <mb...@ds...> - 2001-09-24 11:52:44
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On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, alexander traum wrote: >Hi, > >I tried to compile wxPerl (0.07) on a Unix machine (Solaris,Linux,FreeBSD). Ah, you didn't read the README.txt, right ;-) ? I personally test wxPerl on Linux for every release, as specified in the README. >wxPerl ;) but it seems that the archives are missing some files. > >A "perl Makefile.PL" leads to error messages: > >Can't exec "wx-config": No such file or directory at build/Any_wx_config.pm You need to install wxWindows ( as IIRC is specified in the README.txt and/or INSTALL.txt ) >and the file is really missing. Also lots of header files are missing (settings.h >in the wx directory) to just mention one. Could you have a look on this >archive? Will there be binaries for Solaris as well as for Linux? I can just build binaries for Win32/Linux, as they are the only boxes I have access to. You can download wxWindows sources from http://www.wxwindows.org/ be sure to download the 2.2.7 version, as the 2.3.1 is a developent release. Be sure to read the installation docs/FAQs and the list archives at http://lists.wxwindows.org/search/. because there are some installation notes about Solaris. >Thats it for now - thanks and best wishes BTW: for the future, post to wxp...@li... : as I conly have access to Win32/Linux, someone else might answer better your questions about Solaris/FreeBSD . HTH Mattia |
From: Jouke V. <jo...@pv...> - 2001-09-24 11:58:40
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On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 01:49:36PM +0200, Mattia Barbon wrote: > On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, alexander traum wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >I tried to compile wxPerl (0.07) on a Unix machine (Solaris,Linux,FreeBSD). <snip> I wondered if anyone yet tried to compile wxPerl on a Mac. If not, I'd like to ask around a bit at the guys doing MacPerl because this would *really* be the big pro for wxPerl compared to Tk. wxWindows itself is ported to the Mac, so I think in theory it should be possible. Cheers! -- *-----------------------------------------------* |Jouke Visser |jo...@pv... | |Perl GUI Geek |http://www.pvoice.org | *-----------------------------------------------* PS: Notice new mailaddress!! |
From: Christian J. <chr...@sl...> - 2001-09-30 21:09:44
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Hello, I'm crossposting this reply to the macosx-perl mailing list because there is some interest, too. At 14:02 Uhr +0200 24.9.2001, Jouke Visser wrote: >I wondered if anyone yet tried to compile wxPerl on a Mac. If not, I'd >like to ask around a bit at the guys doing MacPerl because this would >*really* be the big pro for wxPerl compared to Tk. wxWindows itself is >ported to the Mac, so I think in theory it should be possible. I have written to this (wxperl-users ) list on 14 Sept, and Mattia Barbon replied to me (for some reason he didn't send a copy to the list) that it should not be too hard to port it to MacOSX but that it will take some work, and he hasn't a Mac so only can help with advice (he didn't say something about MacOS8/9, but I think this would be a bit harder because MacPerl is quite different from Unix perl, and the latest stable MacPerl version is also 5.004!, so maybe that could be a problem). We need to write a Gui for the Macs, but haven't decided yet whether to use Perl+wxPerl or Perl+Carbon or C++ (maybe Metrowerks Powerplant). If we decide (within the next week or two) to use wxPerl, we'll be glad to work together in some form. I've already got an offer for some help from someone on the macosx-perl-list. I think the following has to be worked out: (at least for me, maybe others have more experience i.e. with Perl on MacOSX) MacOSX: - get wxWindows to install and work. Mattia writes: wxWindows on MacOS X is still not as stable as the Windows/GTK ports, though it is progressing steadily, and the developers are generally very responsive WRT bugreports; on MacOS 9 it should be pretty stable though Also quoting Mattia, we should use the the wxWindows' developement branch ( 2.3.1 ), or the CVS head. (The guys maintaining the MacOSX version of wxWindows seem to be from switzerland, that may be some benefit for me.) - find out how to compile perl modules on MacOSX (GCC, Development tools CD?, ...) - try to compile wxperl - find out why it doesn't - figure out how wxWindows works and which bindings wxPerl provides, so how to solve some platform specific quirks (hopefully not?). Maybe talk with the wxWindows-MacOSX guys if necessary. MacOS8/9: - get wxWindows installed - get CodeWarrior (I have an old (~2y) version that's probably outdated) - find out how to write interfaces for MacPerl. AFAIK, this works somewhat differently than the usual xs approach (Chris Nandor aka Pudge has written some MacPerl modules, I'm sure looking at his materials will help. I've also seen him in #macperl on irc.) - do the necessary stuff to get wxPerl compiled. - maybe find out why it doesn't - same thing as above. (- find out how well MacPerl works as a background application.-> for our purpose) (I mainly have experience with Perl on Linux, and some C and C++ background. I used MacPerl before I converted to linux some years ago. I haven't used MacOSX much yet.) We (my project partners and I) primarily need the MacOSX version, so wxPerl-MacOS8/9 doesn't have a high priority for us. We would need the MacOSX version at the latest by the end of october (november 24th our app has to be ready). Jouke, have you got any reply from the MacPerl guys? Would you be interested in the MacOSX version? Christian. |
From: Jouke V. <jo...@pv...> - 2001-10-01 07:26:08
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Hi Christian, I asked the question who would try to pick this up on the MacPerl porters list, but no-one replied yet (and I didn't receive any of the messages on that list, so maybe something went wrong...). I'm glad you're thinking about this... > I have written to this (wxperl-users ) list on 14 Sept, and Mattia > Barbon replied to me (for some reason he didn't send a copy to the > list) that it should not be too hard to port it to MacOSX but that it > will take some work, and he hasn't a Mac so only can help with advice > (he didn't say something about MacOS8/9, but I think this would be a > bit harder because MacPerl is quite different from Unix perl, and the > latest stable MacPerl version is also 5.004!, so maybe that could be > a problem). My thoughts are the same. I don't even have a clue how MacPerl would work in the first place, since it omits a shell (I think...) :) > We need to write a Gui for the Macs, but haven't decided yet whether > to use Perl+wxPerl or Perl+Carbon or C++ (maybe Metrowerks > Powerplant). If we decide (within the next week or two) to use > wxPerl, we'll be glad to work together in some form. I've already got > an offer for some help from someone on the macosx-perl-list. I think it would be much preferrable to use wxPerl because you then would have a way to write GUI programs in Perl which are *really* multiplatform: Win32, Mac *and* Unix. Carbon would not be usable on other platforms. > I think the following has to be worked out: > (at least for me, maybe others have more experience i.e. with Perl on MacOSX) <snip> Sounds like a good way of handling it... > Jouke, have you got any reply from the MacPerl guys? Would you be > interested in the MacOSX version? I have had no reply at all. I talked with Pudge about it on IRC and wit blech too. The latter has already tried to make it work, but it turned out that wxMac needs CodeWarrior, and he hasn't got a copy of that. So that's where his attempt ended. I would *very, very* much like to see this happen. If I can help anywhere (can't see where, because I don't own a Mac, nor have I experience in C/C++ programming), please let me know, because I'd be happy to help where I can! -- *-----------------------------------------------* |Jouke Visser |jo...@pv... | |Perl GUI Geek |http://www.pvoice.org | *-----------------------------------------------* PS: Notice new mailaddress!! |