Changes between Version 46 and Version 47 of Download

Timestamp:

11/24/08 22:23:11 (4 years ago)

Author:

szabgab

Comment:

instructions for wxWidgtes installation

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@@ -296 +296 @@
 == wxWidgets and wxPerl ==
 
+If you have trouble you can check which version of wxWidgets you have:
+
+{{{
+$ perl -MWx -le'print  "Wx Version: $Wx::VERSION " . Wx::wxVERSION_STRING()'
+}}}
+
+and on Mac: 
+
+{{{
+$ wxPerl -MWx -le'print  "Wx Version: $Wx::VERSION " . Wx::wxVERSION_STRING()'
+}}}
+
+We use Wx 0.87 and wxWidgets 2.8.8 so you probably should have those (or newer) too.
+
+When installing Alien::wxWidgets it will ask if you want to compile wxWidgets. 
+'''Do you want to fetch and build wxWidgets from sources?'''
+If you don't have any installed or if you have an old version (< 2.8.8) then you should answer yes.
+It will try to download the source code of wxWidgets which is big and the download often fails.
+
+To get around that you can download the file manually and put it in the extracted directory of
+Alien::wxWidgets.
+
+Something like this:
+
+{{{
+ $ cd /tmp
+ $ wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wxwindows/wxWidgets-2.8.8.tar.gz
+ $ cpan
+ cpan> look Alien::wxWidgets
+ $ cp /tmp/wxWidgets-2.8.8.tar.gz .
+ $ perl Makefile.PL
+ $ make
+ $ make test
+ $ make install
+ $ exit
+ cpan>quit
+ $
+}}}
 [http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.wxperl.users/2008/07/msg5992.html wxPerl on Linux distributions]