Cool thanks for the valuable information but how will I require it in my Makefile.PL to be wxWidgets 2.9.3 and not the default 2.8.1x? :) I am looking at Padre and thinking how we can use the new wxWebView: http://docs.wxwidgets.org/trunk/classwx_web_view.html
I will try your instructions on a fresh ubuntu 11.10 vm instance. 2012/3/19 Mark Dootson <mark.doot...@znix.com>: > Hi > > On Windows - > You can't build with current release of Strawberry :-( > The compiler needs updating. I expect the next release of Strawberry will be > OK as they are aware of the issue. > For ActivePerl, any MSVC should work. Get MinGW from perlmingw.sf.net > > On Linux, you'll need the gtk development packages and freeglut-dev. If > you're particularly interested in wxMediaCtrl, see list posts from Steve > Cookson. > > Then > > perl Build.PL - and answer the prompts choosing 'yes' - I want to build > from source, and giving 2.9.3 as the version, tar.bz2 as the archive type. > > For a build with no prompts: > > perl Build.PL --wxWidgets-version=2.9.3 --wxWidgets-source=tar.bz2 > --wxWidgets-build=1 --wxWidgets-graphicscontext=1 --wxWidgets-build-opengl=1 > > Then the usual > > perl Build > perl Build test > perl Build install > > For MacOSX you are best just doing > > perl Build.PL > > and answering prompts. This will get you a 64 bit build and you'll need a 64 > bit Perl ( wxWidgets 2.9.3 removes the need to force a 32 bit build of > everything ). > > You may then wish to build Wx from SVN as that has wxWebView wrapped along > with a few other things.( wxRichToolTip, wxTimePickerCtrl, wxBannerWindow). > > wxWebView is a full web rendering engine with backends in 2.9.3 for Linux, > Windows and Mac. It will build out of the box on Windows and Mac. On Linux > you need the package libwebkitgtk-dev which I'm afraid is only available on > recent distros. (Ubuntu 11.04 and above, for example) > > You'll need the Wx::Demo from SVN too then you can watch Gabor's YouTube > tutorials with your Wx app. > > > Regards > > Mark > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 19/03/2012 08:36, Ahmad Zawawi wrote: >> >> Great work! >> >> Suppose I want to build an application to use only wxWidgets 2.9.3. >> How do I force Alien::wxWidgets to build it from source via >> dependencies? >> >> Regards, >> Ahmad > >
