Hi,

Just to confirm it is a different problem:

C:\strawberry>perl -MConfig -e"print $Config{cc};"
gcc
C:\strawberry>perl -MConfig -e"print $Config{ccname};"
gcc


Regards

Mark


herbert breunung wrote:
yes confirming , yesterday i was compiling Wx on Stawberry 5.10.0.1 and after 20 min it spew tons of errors. i first thought it was fault on Strawberrys side but not i also tend to look for error on Wxperl.

blessings
herbert

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





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