Hi, The recent changes to Alien-wxWidgets breaks correct operation of ExtUtils::FakeConfig.
This concerns building Alien on Win32 using MinGW, against a non ActiveState Perl where Perl itself was built using VC6. It would break an ActiveState build too if it is an older version and you are using ExtUtils::FakeConfig. Solution is to fix ExtUtils::FakeConfig. ExtUtils::FakeConfig installation also needs updating for Perl 5.10. As I'm building stuff against non ActiveState VC6 versions of Perl 5.8 and 5.10, I will work on a patch for ExtUtils::FakeConfig as it'll be easiest for me to test. I think the Perl 5.10 stuff will be trivial (the cc_name bit certainly is) I just won't get to it today. In the meantime, if anyone else out there is still using ExtUtils::FakeConfig, just update your installed Config_m.pm to include "ccname='gcc'". F.Y.I. I use my own basic builds of Perl built using VC6 to support the PPMs. Releases of ActivePerl sometimes break compatibility with prior releases when they include maintenance patches - especially with 5.8 being quite 'venerable', so to ensure that the PPMs are fine for all recent releases and going forward, I build them against original source for 5.8.8 and 5.10.0. (It so happens that the 5.8.8 build works fine for 5.8.4 onwards - though that's a happy coincidence for me and there is nothing in the Perl release process that says it should be so). Mark
