I think there are several places where the installation process of wxPerl executes perl. The problem could be if the perl I am building Wx with is not the perl that is the first in the PATH.
I am not sure if these files are somehow pre-processed and the 'perl' is replaced as I think it just blew up in a build I was trying. Several .xs file have lines starting with: INCLUDE: perl and build/Wx/build/MakeMaker/Win32.pm also had one place (even though Win32 was not relevant to me). For the latter here is the patch. For now I seem to have solved it for myself by prepending the path of the perl I am using to the PATH variable but I think this might need a more permanent solution. regards Gabor Index: build/Wx/build/MakeMaker/Win32.pm =================================================================== --- build/Wx/build/MakeMaker/Win32.pm (revision 2694) +++ build/Wx/build/MakeMaker/Win32.pm (working copy) @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ ppm : pure_all %s - perl script/make_ppm.pl + $^X script/make_ppm.pl EOT }