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Dear esteemed PerlMonks

I am trying to install (building first) Alien::wxWidgets with wxWidgets 2.9.4.

Build is failing - I'll be thankful to you for your help and advice.

Update 1: I've made a little progress, but then hit errors again; ~~please see this post below in this thread: Re^2:Tiny, temporary progress, then an error again~~

Update 2: Problem in "Update 1" above, apparently fixed; there was a wrong setup.h file in the main wx directory. I took that file away, and then gmake charged on for about 25 minutes, doing compiling and linking. Then it broke, saying:

Creating library file: ..\..\lib\gcc_dll\libwxmsw29u_gl.a
if not exist ..\..\lib\gcc_dll\mswu\wx mkdir ..\..\lib\gcc_dll\mswu\wx
Unable to find setup.h directory at inc/My/Build/Win32.pm line 117.
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The source of My::Build::Win32.pm can be found here: http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/MBARBON/Alien-wxWidgets-0.51/inc/My/Build/Win32.pm

Update 3: (5 14 2013): Working around several hitches, I've succeeded in building and installing Alien::wxWidgets: see below here: Re^2: Moderate success - and some questions

Update 4: (5 18 2013): I gave up on the struggle to fix wxWidgets 2.9.4 on Strawberry Perl (I've implemented all the expert advice and it didn't help the wxbase294u_gcc_custom.dll perl.exe crash; so I've installed Citrus Perl).
There, there are some problems installing some necessary additional modules - I'll be thankful to you if you could have a look at it: Citrus Perl: problems trying to load additional modules

I'm now running Strawberry Perl 5.16.3 on Windows 7.

(continuation of original post - disregard - not up-to-date):
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Here is the log*:

C:\Users\Helen\.cpanplus\5.14.2\build\Alien-wxWidgets-0.64>Build
Building Alien-wxWidgets
Fetching wxWidgets...
fetching from: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wxwindows/wxWidgets-
+2.9.4.tar.bz2
Extracting wxWidgets...
Patching wxWidgets...
Applying patch: C:\Users\Helen\.cpanplus\5.14.2\build\Alien-wxWidgets-
+0.64\patches\wxMSW-2.9.4-makefiles.patch
perl -pe "" -- "C:\Users\Helen\.cpanplus\5.14.2\build\Alien-wxWidgets-
+0.64\patches\wxMSW-2.9.4-makefiles.patch
" | "..\inc\bin\patch.exe" -N -p0 -u -b -z .bak
patching file build/msw/makefile.gcc
Applying patch: C:\Users\Helen\.cpanplus\5.14.2\build\Alien-wxWidgets-
+0.64\patches\wxMSW-2.9.4-setup.patch
perl -pe "" -- "C:\Users\Helen\.cpanplus\5.14.2\build\Alien-wxWidgets-
+0.64\patches\wxMSW-2.9.4-setup.patch" |"..\inc\bin\patch.exe" -N -p0 
+-u -b -z .bak
patching file include/wx/msw/setup.h
Applying patch: C:\Users\Helen\.cpanplus\5.14.2\build\Alien-wxWidgets-
+0.64\patches\wxWidgets-2.9.0-magic.patch
perl -pe "" -- "C:\Users\Helen\.cpanplus\5.14.2\build\Alien-wxWidgets-
+0.64\patches\wxWidgets-2.9.0-magic.patch" | "..\inc\bin\patch.exe" -N
+ -p0 -u -b -z .bak
patching file src/generic/grid.cpp
Hunk #1 succeeded at 6082 (offset 485 lines).
Applying patch: C:\Users\Helen\.cpanplus\5.14.2\build\Alien-wxWidgets-
+0.64\patches\wxWidgets-2.9.4-plugin.patch
perl -pe "" -- "C:\Users\Helen\.cpanplus\5.14.2\build\Alien-wxWidgets-
+0.64\patches\wxWidgets-2.9.4-plugin.patch" | "..\inc\bin\patch.exe" -
+N -p0 -u -b -z .bak
patching file src/common/dynload.cpp
if not exist gcc_mswudll mkdir gcc_mswudll
process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, -c "if not exist gcc_mswudll mkdir 
+gcc_mswudll", ...) failed.
make (e=2): The system cannot find the file specified.
gmake: [gcc_mswudll] Error 2 (ignored)
if not exist ..\..\lib\gcc_dll mkdir ..\..\lib\gcc_dll
process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, -c "if not exist ..\..\lib\gcc_dll 
+mkdir ..\..\lib\gcc_dll", ...) failed.
make (e=2): The system cannot find the file specified.
gmake: *** [..\..\lib\gcc_dll] Error 2
system: gmake -f makefile.gcc all  UNICODE=1 MSLU=0 BUILD=release SHAR
+ED=1  DEBUG_INFO=default DEBUG_FLAG=1 LDFLAGS=" -m32" CPPFLAGS="-m32"
+: 512 at inc/My/Build/Win32.pm line 274
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~~I am running DWIM Perl 5.14.2 on Windows 7.~~

What to do?

Many TIA - Helen

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