Re^2: Installation instructions for Wx (wxWidgets fomerly wxWindows) using ActivePerl (update)

[HelenCr]

ikegami: I am trying to install WxPerl, according to your instructions. I have Strawberry Perl 5.14.2 running on Windows 7.

I tried to install VC++ 2008, but it's not available, so I installed VC++ 2010 (I don't think it should be a problem (?)).

Then I went:

cpan Wx

It seems to have installed:

SMUELLER/ExtUtils-ParseXS-3.18.tar.gz

OK (it printed hundreds of lines, so I'm not attaching it here, unless necessary); then it went ahead to:

 CPAN.pm: Building M/MD/MDOOTSON/Wx-0.9917.tar.gz

and after many lines looking ok, eventually issued the following error:

...
cp lib/Wx/Menu.pm blib\lib\Wx\Menu.pm
cp build/Wx/build/MakeMaker/Win32_MSVC.pm blib\lib\Wx\build\MakeMaker\
+Win32_MSVC.pm
cp build/Wx/build/MakeMaker/Win32.pm blib\lib\Wx\build\MakeMaker\Win32
+.pm
cp Wx.pm blib\lib\Wx.pm
D:\MyPrograms\Technical\Perl\Dwimperl\perl\bin\perl.exe script/wxperl_
+overload cpp\ovl_const.cpp cpp\ovl_const.h overload.lst
Writing 'cpp\ovl_const.h'.
Writing 'cpp\ovl_const.cpp'.
D:\MyPrograms\Technical\Perl\Dwimperl\perl\bin\perl.exe -MExtUtils::Co
+mmand -e touch -- wxt_overload
cp lib/Wx/PerlTest.pm ..\..\blib\lib\Wx\PerlTest.pm
dmake:  Error: -- `D:\MyPrograms\Technical\Perl\Dwimperl\perl\lib\ExtU
+tils\xsubpp' not found, and can't be made
dmake:  Error code 255, while making 'subdirs'
dmake.EXE:  Error code 255, while making 'subdirs'
  MDOOTSON/Wx-0.9917.tar.gz
  D:\MyPrograms\Technical\Perl\Dwimperl\c\bin\dmake.EXE -- NOT OK
Running make install
  Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible

What to do?

Many TIA - Helen

[marto]

Strawberry already has a C compiler, so I'm not sure you needed to install another one.

"dmake: Error: -- `D:\MyPrograms\Technical\Perl\Dwimperl\perl\lib\ExtUtils\xsubpp' not found, and can't be made"

Try:

cpan ExtUtils::ParseXS

Update: If you're actually using DWIM perl it claims to ship with Wx already installed: README.

[HelenCr]

marto: thank you. Indeed, I ran this test program:

use strict;
use warnings;
use 5.014;
use DBI;
use Encode;
use Wx;

say 'Testing Wx';

1;

and it didn't issue errors. I'll start using Wx and report if I encounter problems.

Many thanks - Helen

[HelenCr]

Please see this follow-up: How to upgrade wxWidgets to 2.9.5 in the most painless and safe way? ,
your advice will be appreciated

Many TIA - Helen