Installing wxPerl for Strawberry Perl v5.32.0, or: Future of wxPerl?
I've been wanting to explore the Wx GUI toolkit bindings for Perl, but I couldn't get it to install correctly on my 64-bit Windows 7 machine.
When I ran cpan Wx, it failed to install the dependency Alien::wxWidgets. There were some cryptic errors about CreateProcess, which is (basically) Windows' equivalent of fork(2). Presumably, some process started by the build script was having some problems, but there wasn't much in the error message to go on.
From Google, I found an old reply posted on Pe…
Student of linguistics, hobbyist programmer. Unix on the server, Windows on the desktop.