Much appreciated :-)
Mark Dootson wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to propose the attached patch.
Its purpose is to make it simpler for packaging applications to work
and to allow creation of binary distributions of wxWidgets dlls for Wx.
The patch is mainly pod - which explains how it would be used.
I've tested building Wx and running Wx demo on Win32 and Linux. Ive
tested with PAR, PDK and Wx::Perl::Packager.
I've not written any additional tests as the changes concern running
Wx::_start() which is called in various ways whenever Wx is started.
The patch does make one functional change - it restores loading plugin
dlls on platforms other that Win32 (excluding MacOSX) - which I think
is necessary for Wx::Html ( at least ) to work correctly.
Some background:
I'd like to produce a Wx::Binary distribution with the idea that a
given Wx::Binary distribution version has a set of libraries built
with the same flags and options across Linux/Win32/MacOSX as far as
possible.
The binary bits would live separately from Perl to make distributing a
wxPerl application more straightforward - e.g. make an install of
'wxp-binary' a prerequisite of your packaged app, then you don't have
to bundle the whole of wxWidgets with every exec.
I'd like remove much of the evil from Wx::Perl::Packager. PAR::Packer
will be straightforward to 'adjust' for, and I'll beg Jan D to make
'more' changes to PDK.
I have PPMs for Linux and will investigate MacOSX soon.
Hopefully this will make getting started with Wx more attractive to
many and provide some simple straightforward routes for distributing
cross platform GUI apps
Cheers
Mark
