I don’t think I have seen that , but. Perhaps: cpan Module:Build Also, I have had the best luck with unpacking Alien-widgets, then copying the wxwidgets tar.bz2 I to that folder, then perl Build. PL
Don Peddicord > On Dec 24, 2025, at 5:53 AM, Henry Law <[email protected]> wrote: > > > In preparation for installing wxPerl 3.009 I'm trying to build > perl-Alien-wxWidgets from github and failing at the first step. > > ~/install/Alien-wxWidgets-0.72$ perl Build.PL > Base class package "Module::Build" is empty. > (Perhaps you need to 'use' the module which defines that package first, > or make that module available in @INC (@INC contains: . ./lib ./inc > /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.38.2 > /usr/local/share/perl/5.38.2 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.38 > /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl-base > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.38 /usr/share/perl/5.38 > /usr/local/lib/site_perl). > at inc/My/Build.pm line 4. > > wxwidgets is freshly installed pre-built from the repo > > dpkg -l | grep wxgtk | awk '{print $2}' > libwxgtk-gl3.2-1t64:amd64 > libwxgtk3.2-1t64:amd64 > libwxgtk3.2-dev:amd64 > > System is Linux Mint 22.2 (ubuntu 24.04) fully patched. > > -- > Henry Law n e w s @ l a w s h o u s e . o r g > Reading, England > > >
