My ultimate goal is to create eForms for use in the lab. Instead of paper forms that have to be manually transcribed to text files (an error prone process), I want to use Perl. I have used Win32::GUI in the past, but placing the components on the screen is manual. wxGlade seems like a super way to create Perl code for custom eForms. The wxGlade code that's created needs wxPerl and wxPerl needs wxWidgets.

Therein lies the problem -- installing wxWidgets.

I use Strawberry Perl (v5.22.0) under win7 (SP1) and there doesn't seem to be an install package available. I very seldom do manual installations because I am not at all familiar with the process (I am a user of Perl, not a designer of modules). But I tried to manually install it anyway using the Alien-wxWidgits (v0.67) module. After compiling (gcc, x86_64-posix-sjlj, built by strawberryperl.com project, 4.9.2) for about 40mins it terminates with the message:

"Unable to find setup.h directory at inc/My/Build/Win32.pm line 122."

I've retried several times (deleting the more than 100MB of over 10,000 files created) with several variations, but the results were the same.

Out of desperation, I installed wxMSW-3.1.0-Setup which has wxWidgets. I then tried to install wxPerl, but get the message:

  "wxWidgets minimum supported version 2.007001 is missing.
   You will need to re-run Makefile.PL after it is installed.
   You must install wxWidgets using Alien::wxWidgets."

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I'm actually not surprised it didn't work.

I tried setting "set WXDIR=" to point to wxMSW folder and I tried setting "set WXDIR=" to point to the compiled wxWidgets folder. Both failed with error messages, after running the build sequence.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
  EigenFunctions
  OpSys: Win7 x64 Service Pack 1 Professional/Home Premium; Perl: Strawberry (v5.22.0)/ActiveState (v5.14.2)

In reply to [Win32]Alien-wxWidgets-0.67 manual install by EigenFunctions

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