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My laptop has no compiler that would seem to block me from using GitHub Releases. Is there a way I can download Alien::wxWidgets such that in my Perl scripts

use Alien::wxWidgets;

Would work?
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Re^2: "cpan force install" can't connect to sourceforge.net
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 07, 2017 at 23:45 UTC

    Yeah, read the README/INSTALL file and follow the instructions

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      Apparently a change has been made in the sourceforge.net site, in my latest "cpan force install Alien::wxWidgets" there was no error complaining that sourceforge.net could not be reached. Alien-wxWidgets-0.67.tar.gz downloaded successfully.

      I now have an error message saying Alien::wxWidgets cannot be compiled:

      Running Build for M/MD/MDOOTSON/Alien- wxWidgets-0.67.tar.gz
      Building Alien-wxWidgets
      gmake: makefile.gcc: No such file or directory
      gmake: *** No rule to make target 'makefile.gcc'. Stop.
      Could not find wxWidgets lib directory at inc/My/Build/Win32_MinGW_Bakefile.pm line 68.
      MDOOTSON/Alien-wxWidgets-0.67.tar.gz
      C:\Strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe ./Build -- NOT OK
      Stopping: 'install' failed for 'Alien::wxWidgets'.


      Internet searches suggest "gmake" is a UNIX-like makefile distributed by the GNU Project. My computer uses Windows, not UNIX. Is there a solution for the "gmake: makefile.gcc" error shown above that does not require your computer to have UNIX?
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        On Windows 7 64 bit, Strawberry Perl v5.24.1 I used cpanm to install this without issue:

        cpanm Alien::wxWidgets

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        The download from SF seemed to take quite a while, after this everything burst into life, on an I5 laptop it took long time to build and test everything, but:

        1 distribution installed

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        ... in my latest "cpan force install Alien::wxWidgets" ... I now have an error message saying Alien::wxWidgets cannot be compiled:

        Force means go ahead and install even if ... testing ... fails

        But if there is a problem building/cc++compiling a distribution, then there is no module to be installed , as it hasn't been built/compiled yet, so nothing that can be force installed

        If you want to build this module you need to step outside of cpan (  cpan[2]> notest install HTTP::Proxy ) and run these commands yourself 

            perl Build.PL
    perl Build
    perl Build test
    perl Build install

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        Then you'll have an idea of where the problem lies and can go about solving it -- when automatic doesn't work you gotta go step by step

        wxWidgets has over 5000 files, and a couple of hundred makefile.gcc files ...

        If Alien-wxWidgets/Build.PL can't download the source ...

        http://search.cpan.org/dist/Alien-wxWidgets/README.txt

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        I have a 32-bit computer and a 32-bit version of Strawberry Perl
        I have read that the 64-bit Strawberry Perl includes the "gcc" compiler but the 32-bit Strawberry Perl doesn't include "gcc".
        Is there a CPAN Perl Module that could add the "gcc" compiler to my 32-bit Strawberry Perl?

        My error message when using cpanm Alien::wxWidgets:

        Building Alien-wxWidgets
        gmake: makefile.gcc: No such file or directory
        gmake: *** No rule to make target 'makefile.gcc'. Stop
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