wxPerl is a wrapper for the wxWidgets (formerly known as wxWindows) GUI toolkit Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Mattia Barbon. This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. You need wxWidgets in order to build wxPerl (see http://www.wxwidgets.org/). You can use GTK, Win32, Mac OS X and Motif as windowing toolkits for wxPerl. Please read the DEPRECATIONS section at the bottom! INSTALLATION: Build and install wxWidgets, version 2.5.3 or above perl Makefile.PL make make test make install for more detailed instructions see the docs/install.pod file; in case of problems please consult the FAQ section therein. TESTED PLATFORMS: Perl | OS | wxWidgets | Compiler ----------------+---------------+----------------+------------------- ActivePerl 8xx | Windows 2000 | wxMSW 2.8.x | MSVC 6 Strawberry Perl | Windows XP | | MSVC 7 5.10.x | Windows Vista | | MinGW GCC 3.4 | | | MinGW GCC 4.x ----------------+---------------+----------------+------------------- 5.8.x | Fedora 9 | wxGTK 2.8.x | GCC 3.x 5.6.1 | Debian 4.0 | wxGTK 2.9.x | GCC 4.x | FreeBSD | | | Gentoo | | ----------------+---------------+----------------+------------------- 5.8.x | Mac OS X 10.4 | wxMac 2.5.3 | GCC 3.3 5.10.0 | Mac OS X 10.5 | wxMac 2.8.x | GCC 4.x | Mac OS X 10.6 | wxMac 2.9.x | ----------------+---------------+----------------+------------------- wxPerl has also been reported to work on FreeBSD and IRIX. DEPRECATIONS The following features have been deprecated and may disappear in the future 1 - class->new always returning an hash reference until now calling ->new( ... ) returned an hash reference for most classes derived from Wx::Window, hence the following code worked: my $button = Wx::Button->new( ... ); $button->{attribute} = 'value'; At some point in the future this will be changed so that only _user-defined_ classes derived from Wx::Window (or from any class derived from Wx::Window) will yield an hash reference, hence the following code will not work anymore: my $button = Wx::Button->new( ... ); $button->{attribute} = 'value'; while the following code will work as it did before: package MyButton; use base qw(Wx::Button); sub new { my $class = shift; my $self = $class->SUPER::new; # always returns hash $self->{attribure} = 'value; return $self; } 2 - Use of $Wx::_foo wxPerl used to provide some constants named $Wx::_something (for example, $Wx::_msw, $Wx::_platform, $Wx::_wx_version). These constants are now deprecated, and will be removed in some future version; this information is available via functions in the Wx package (i.e. Wx::wxMSW()) toolkit: wxMSW, wxGTK, wxMOTIF, wxX11, wxMAC, wxUNIVERSAL misc: wxUNICODE, wxVERSION