Hi Steve,
I don't think the default installation process has changed.
cpan -i Wx
still works fine, I think.
It is just that Ubuntu 10.10 has no wxMediaCtrl implementation - and you
want wxMediaCtrl.
There has to be a default path for Wx and Alien::wxWidgets to follow
when user does
cpan -i Wx
and I don't really see what you could do, as a default, when wxMediaCtrl
library is missing other than build wxPerl without it. Better this than
failing the build completely.
Perhaps it will all work again in the next Ubuntu release.
cpan -i Wx::Demo
is broken when wxMediaCtrl is missing, as you have pointed out. I'll fix
and release next week.
Sorry I can't be more help with your actual problem. I'm unfamiliar with
Wx::MediaCtrl usage.
Regards
Mark
On 16/01/2011 19:28, Steve Cookson wrote:
Hi Mark,
Well the installation process worked a treat. I needed to install the Gnome
development toolkit first.
sudo apt-get install gnome-core-devel
However, the result was fairly horrible. wxMediaCtrl no longer works
properly. The scaling is wrong and you get occasional random seg-faults.
I'm going to post an error on the wxWidgets user-list, but of course it may
be a GStreamer problem.
However I have to ask, why do we need such a complex installation process?
When I started, on Windows, you just needed to install a .msi file.
Then I migrated to Kubuntu, I just needed:
cpan
install Wx
install Wx::Demo
Now we need
sudo apt-get install gnome-core-devel (a fairly long process)
a manual install of Alien::Widgets
a build of wxWidgets (also long-winded)
At this stage I did a manual install of Wx from svn, but I could probably
have used cpan. Ditto Wx::Demo.
However, it seems an off-putingly long-winded and at times painful process.
While I have no choice at this stage of sunk investment, others probably do.
What do you people think?
I'd be happy to help with simplifying it, but I'm not sure where to start.
Have a good day.
Regards
Steve
