Hi,
Has anyone here managed to build Alien-wxWidgets-0.44 on Win32 using MinGW ? If so, how ? (It's giving me a bugger of a time.)

I've tried:
1) Building static libs from wxMSW-2.8.10 source in the msys shell;
2) Building dynamic libs from wxMSW-2.8.10 source in the msys shell;
3) Allowing the 'perl Build.PL' process to download the source and the 'perl Build' process to build the library.

With both 1) and 2), the 'perl Build' process always fails early on because the libraries can't be found: 
C:\_32\comp\Alien-wxWidgets-0.44>perl Build
Subroutine version::qv redefined at inc/version.pm line 18.
Copying lib\Alien\wxWidgets.pm -> blib\lib\Alien\wxWidgets.pm
Copying lib\Alien\wxWidgets\Utility.pm -> blib\lib\Alien\wxWidgets\Uti
+lity.pm
Configuration error: could not find libraries for configuration: '' '2
+8' at inc/My/Build/Win32.pm line 74.

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Does it need to find dll's or should static libs also suffice ? And how does one make the libs visible ?
With 3), 'perl Build' outputs: 
C:\_32\comp\Alien-wxWidgets-0.44>perl Build
Subroutine version::qv redefined at inc/version.pm line 18.
if not exist gcc_mswudll mkdir gcc_mswudll
make: C:Windowssystem32cmd.exe: Command not found
make: [gcc_mswudll] Error 127 (ignored)
if not exist ..\..\lib\gcc_dll mkdir ..\..\lib\gcc_dll
make: C:Windowssystem32cmd.exe: Command not found
make: *** [..\..\lib\gcc_dll] Error 127
system: make -f makefile.gcc all  UNICODE=1 MSLU=0 BUILD=release SHARE
+D=1: 512 at inc/My/Build/Win32.pm line 263

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(Can't find the Windowssystem32cmd.exe command .... groan.)

Anyone already made headway with this ?

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to [Win32]Alien-wxWidgets-0.44 with MinGW by syphilis

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