Hi Guys,

Here is my latest attempt at getting Wx::MediaCtrl on Kubuntu 11.04.

First the good news. I can get the wxWidgets c++ sample code running. And I can get my webcam to stream to me from my webcam, and it records!!!

However, now having got my wxWidgets install going nicely I want to run Alien to install this as the basis of my wxPerl installation.

This is is the install for wxWidgets. There are a lot of dependencies, which I haven't shown, but these are the key commands:

# Install wxWidgets c++ modules.

wget -r -nd http://tenet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/wxwindows/2.9.2/wx
+Widgets-2.9.2.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf wxWidgets-2.9.2.tar.bz2
cd wxWidgets-2.9.2
mkdir build-GTK
cd build-GTK
../configure --with-gtk --enable-debug --enable-mediactrl --prefix=/va
+r/local/wxtesting-2.9.2/widgets
make
make install
ldconfig

# At this point stop and do some testing

cd /home/image/wxWidgets-2.9.2/build-GTK/samples/mediaplayer/
make
./mediaplayer
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So here we have mediaplayer running under c++.

The next bit is the bit that doesn't work:

# Alien widgets

tar -xzvf wxperl-alien-3083.tar.gz 
mv trunk wxperl-alien-3083
cd wxperl-alien-3083
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/var/local/wxtesting-2.9.2/widgets/lib
export PERL5LIB=/var/local/wxtesting-2.9.2/perl/lib
perl Build.PL --wxWidgets-extraflags="--with-gtk --enable-debug --enab
+le-mediactrl --prefix=/var/local/wxtesting-2.9.2/widgets" --wxWidgets
+-build='no' --wxWidgets-version=2.9.2 --prefix=/var/local/wxtesting-2
+.9.2/perl
perl Build test
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This gives me:

WARNING: the following files are missing in your kit:
        Makefile.PL
        META.yml
Please inform the author.


Created MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json
Creating new 'Build' script for 'Alien-wxWidgets' version '0.52'
root@image-Adesktop:~/wxperl-alien-3083# perl Build test
'media' library not found: some functionality will be missing
t/01_load.t .......... ok   
t/zy_pod_coverage.t .. skipped: Test::Pod::Coverage 1.00 required for 
+testing POD coverage
t/zz_pod.t ........... skipped: Test::Pod 1.00 required for testing PO
+D
All tests successful.
Files=3, Tests=1,  1 wallclock secs ( 0.10 usr  0.01 sys +  0.63 cusr 
+ 0.16 csys =  0.90 CPU)
Result: PASS
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Note the "'media' library not found: some functionality will be missing" message.

Have I not got my paths right? I suspect not.

If I then do perl Build install I get:

make[2]: Entering directory `/home/image/WxBuild/ext/media'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/image/WxBuild/ext/media'
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Which I get in every other stage of the Wx installation. Ending up with my carefully crafted wxMediaCtrl::GStreamerBackend code not making it to the final install.

What do you think guys?

I look forward to your ideas.

Question 2, I'm now trying to debug the Alien::wxWidgets Build.PL code, has anyone done this? I'd love some tips, especially any pointers to where I can find more documentation on the parameters than I can find in the module doc.

Regards

Steve