Hi All.
The problem is that Alien-wxWidgets appears in the Activestate package
repository with version 0.44. So PPM installs that as a dependency of Wx.
The workaround is to install Alien-wxWidgets first from the wxPerl
repository.
For info -
The ActiveState repo version looks to be good.
The main differences are:
no Wx::GLCanvas support
no Wx::GraphicsContext support
It is built with VC6 so I'm not sure what success you might have
building Wx::ActiveX etc with MinGW.
On the plus side, the ActiveState repo version does include all headers etc.
I shall work out what I have to do to ensure an install of Wx from
wxPerl repository will only install Alien-wxWidgets from same repo.
Mark
Huub Peters wrote:
Jacky Jack wrote:
Hi
I try to compile wxperl on Perl 5. 10 (of both ActivePerl and
StrawberryPerl)
None of them work.
Extensive googling show me:
http://www.wxperl.co.uk/repository/
and http://www.wxperl.co.uk/Wx-510.zip
They too don't work.
How can I make it for coping with 5.10 and for Windows platform.
We have to switch to old-school Tk.
Hi,
I was surprised to hear this because installing Wx on ActivePerl has
become very easy ever since Mark Dootson set up his wxPerl repo on
wxperl.co.uk. Especially since ActiveState included it as an option in
PPM. I haven't used Windows for a while but decided to fire up a clean
VM and do some tests.
I Installed the latest ActivePerl:
ActivePerl-5.10.1.1006-MSWin32-x86-291086.msi
Then, in the graphical interface of the PPM I added the wxperl repo:
'Edit' -> 'Preferences' -> 'Repositories' (tab):
Select "wxperl :: wxPerl modules" from the "Suggested" list and "Add" it.
Usually I just search for "Wx" and install it. At this moment the latest
version is 0.89.1
When you install this it will also install "Alien-wxWidgets" (which
contains the actual wxWidgets dll's) and that's where the problem lies.
It will install Alien-wxWidgets 0.44 which is the latest but for some
reason that does not work with Wx 0.89.1, it will throw an error on not
being able to find "wxbase28u_gcc_wxperl.dll" (Mattia? Mark? care to
investigate this?)
Now the solution is simple: Remove Alien-wxWidgets 0.44 and install
0.39. This will give you a working wxPerl system based on wxWidgets
version 2.8.9. Not bleeding edge, but very recent at least.
[Tip: also install Wx::Demo which can be run from
c:\Perl\site\bin\wxperl_demo.pl]
I hope this helps.
Cheers,
Huub
Ps: I'll also look into compiling the whole lot by hand, it's been a
while but I remember that once some small hurdles were taken it was very
easy in the end.
