Re: how to detect gtk installed or not

[Athanasius]

in reply to how to detect gtk installed or not

One way is to eval the appropriate require:

#! perl
use Modern::Perl;

my $r1 = eval "require Data::Dumper";
my $r2 = eval "require Non::Exist";

say $_ ? "found" : "missing" for ($r1, $r2);

which on my system prints:

 0:35 >perl 478_SoPW.pl
found
missing

 0:37 >

Hope that helps,

[sdetweil]

thanks.. unfortunately, my require is against wxPerl, and not any of the underlying system support that wx Requires.

if I try to start this app, I get a missing DLL/SO error message, which I am trying to suppress as it doesn't help my users at all.

using Load for wxPerl is really difficult to get working.

[Corion]

This means that however you tried to install wxPerl, it was a broken attempt. If the wxPerl module were installed properly, or missing completely, require should either work or fail, but not pop up a "SO missing" message.

But maybe you can be a bit more explicit about how things fail for you, by posting a short, self-contained snippet together with the error messages. That would likely help us to help you better.