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?

In reply to Re^3: "cpan force install" can't connect to sourceforge.net by Amphiaraus
in thread "cpan force install" can't connect to sourceforge.net by Amphiaraus

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