Re[2]: Compiling wxPerl with MinGW

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 17:51:28 -0500 Cheetah <fastcat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> [ Apologies that this is a very long email.  I'm deliberately trying
> to keep a log of what I did and what problems I encoutered and their
> solutions for both my own records and to the aid of some other person
> reading through the list archives. ]

  I am sorry for all the stupid mistakes I did in the instructions.
I see you could figure thing out by yourself, though.

> Which is odd, because I'm compiling against ActivePerl 5.8.4.  So I
> concluded this was due to a defective ExtUtils-FakeConfig package and
> went back and built it from source (no hassles there).  Then, I go
> back and redo the wxPerl build.  After finding that the makefile was
> built using nmake escaping rules and not dmake, I give up on using
> dmake.  I also find that the mkdir problems have gone away now that
> the $ENV{PATH} has been cleansed.

  Explanation: when you build/install EU::FakeConfig it gives you
a message "Using NMAKE" or "Using DMAKE". This identifies the
*make program Config_m will target thereafter. To alter it either
manually edit Config_m.pm or reinstall EU::FakeConfig while
having the correct make in the path (as you did).

> Now Wx-0.21 is compiling ... There are a bunch of warnings about
> "-fvtable-thunks is no longer supported" but I assume those are
> harmless and a result of using gcc-3.x.  And the compile appears to
> complete successfully :)

  Yes, these warninga are harmless.

Regards
Mattia

P.S.: I carefully avoid spaces in my paths precisely for the problems
      you mentioned above.



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