Gabor Szabo wrote:
Hi,
I have tried to install wxPerl on Ubuntu 7.10 but as far as I could find
there is no such Ubuntu package.
So I tried CPAN.pm it tried to also install Alien-wxWidgets-0.35
The following questions I answered with an ENTER:
Do you want to build wxWidgets? [yes ]
Which archive type? [tar.gz ]
Do you want to include OpenGL support [no ]
and I got
Fetching wxWidgets...
fetching from: ftp://biolpc22.york.ac.uk/pub/2.8.7/wxWidgets-2.8.7.tar.gz
Fetch failed! HTTP response: 500 Internal Server Error [500
LWP::Protocol::MyFTP: Bad hostname 'biolpc22.york.ac.uk']
which worries me as I thought CPAN modules should not dial out and
download stuff from other places.
If for nothing else because this creates a single point of failure in
installing wxPerl.
Anyway, it seemed to continue after that but in the end I got
Failed during this command:
MBARBON/Alien-wxWidgets-0.35.tar.gz : install NO
MBARBON/Wx-0.82.tar.gz : make NO
I can send the full log but I hope that oters might already have a
pointer on how to proceed?
regards
Gabor
I'm not going to discuss whether Alien::wxWidgets should or should not
download wxwidgets by itself but I think it is great that it offers this.
Anyway, as always in perl, there's more than one way to do it.
Quick and easy on Ubuntu:
*Make sure your build environment is in order:*
$ sudo apt-get build-essential
*Install the wxWidgets dev package:*
$ sudo apt-get install libwxgtk2.8-dev
(This will also install: libwxbase2.8-0 libwxbase2.8-dev libwxgtk2.8-0
wx2.8-headers)
Run cpan (I always upgrade CPAN on a fresh system but I think that's
optional: "install Bundle::CPAN")
cpan> install Alien::wxWidgets
(Now the build question will default to [no ] because wxWidgets is
already installed)
cpan> install Wx
And highly recomended:
cpan> install Wx::Demo
Now you are left with a working wxPerl installation, without OpenGL support.
I have a hunch that your build environment was not set up correctly yet
causing the wxWidgets build to fail and it might even work correctly now.
I still advise to go with the libwxgtk2.8-dev package as described
because it includes support for extra's like Wx::Media (and others) already.
I'm in the progress of creating these kind of HOWTO's for different
systems, also including more instructions to build stuff yourself.
Cheers,
Huub
