Re: Building Alien::wxWidgets on OSX, perl 5.20.0

On 09/16/2014 06:41 AM, Steve Cookson wrote:
> Hi Gabor,
>
> On 12/09/14 22:19, Gabor Szabo wrote:
>> After Neither of these worked perl Build
> Did you ever sort all this out?
>
> If not I have a few suggestions for you to try.
>
> 1) use cpan -i Wx (or whatever engine you use) and let cpan sort out the
> dependencies.
>
> 2) What version of wxWidgets are you trying to install?  I don't imagine
> the problem is perlbrew as it is quite popular and must have been tested
> before now.  I have difficulty installing 2.8.11 with the current
> download so I use an earlier baseline (#3418), like this:
>
> cd ~
> rm -rf Alien-wxWidgets
> svn co https://svn.code.sf.net/p/wxperl/code/Alien-wxWidgets/trunk@3418
> Alien-wxWidgets
> cd ~/Alien-wxWidgets
> perl Build.PL --wxWidgets-extraflags="--enable-graphics_ctx
> --disable-compat26 --enable-mediactrl --with-libjpeg=builtin
> --with-libpng=builtin --with-regex=builtin --with-libtiff=builtin
> --with-zlib=builtin --with-expat=builtin --with-libxpm=builtin
> --with-gnome-print --with-gnomeprintui" --wxWidgets-build='yes'
> --wxWidgets-source='tar.gz'  --wxWidgets-unicode=1 --wx-unicode='yes'
> --wxWidgets-build-opengl=0 --wxWidgets-version=2.8.11
>
> perl Build  # Download and compile wxWidgets.
> perl Build install
> ldconfig
> cd ..
>
> cd ~
> rm -rf wxPerl
> svn co https://svn.code.sf.net/p/wxperl/code/wxPerl/trunk@3418 wxPerl
> cd ~/wxPerl
> perl Makefile.PL
> make
> make install
> cd ~
>
> Good luck,
>
> Steve.
>

Note that there are incompatibilities between Wx and Perl v5.20.0.  Use 
v5.20.1 instead.  But these happen further along than you have gotten so 
far.

There are already a couple of (unanswered) bug reports on not being able 
to compile this module on OS X:
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=96504
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=88101

Plus this one that the requestor managed to finally install
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=66723