Hi,

Sorry - no experience with msys shell. If memory serves correctly, 
discussions on wxperl list in the past suggested it is not possible.

I normally build in a native cmd shell with

mingw32-make -f makefile.gcc

prerequisites - edit config.gcc to your requirements and apply relevant 
patch(es) from Alien::wxWidgets dist.

If you want wxGraphicsContext support you'll need an MS Platform SDK 
installed (server 2003 as a minumum I think) You may also need some 
editing of the gdiplus headers. (last time I checked, the mingw folks 
hadn't decided on a satisfactory (legal) way to package these.).
What is the point of wxGraphicsContext - on MSWin you get drawing based 
on gdiplus (alpha channel support for device context drawing etc) and on 
GTK you get cairo. So, if you're developing a cross platform app that 
uses any significant drawing functions - you need it.

Never tried a static build - I imagine this may prevent you building 
additional Wx xs modules (Wx::TreeListCtrl, Wx::ActiveX etc).

I do use a monolithic build - which reduces number of required dlls to 4
(mingw-runtime, monolithic, stc, gl)

--prefix is Module::Build equivalent of PREFIX argument to Makefile.PL - 
so optional.

Regards

Mark


Sisyphus wrote:
>  
>  ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Dootson" <mark.dootson@[...].com>
>  
> > or if you have a pre-built wxWidgets
> >
> > environment - set WXDIR=C:\Path\to\wxWidgets
> > perl Build.PL
> >     --wxWidgets-build=0
> >     --wxWidgets-unicode=1
> >     --wxWidgets-mslu=1
> >     --wxWidgets-portable=1
> >     --prefix /your/path/to/prefix
>  
>  If I'm pre-building wxWidgets in the msys shell, what arguments do I 
>  need to give './configure' for this to work ?
>  
>  Presumably '--enable-unicode' would be one argument, but what's the 
>  corresponding arg regarding mslu ('--enable-mslu' perhaps) ?
>  I'm also wondering what the '--prefix' stuff is about.
>  And is it ok to build a static lib, or must I build dll's ?
>  
>  The source that I have is wxMSW-2.8.10.zip. It builds fine in the msys 
>  shell, but the Alien-wxWidgets-0.44 'perl Build' process cannot find the 
>  library (though $ENV{WXDIR} is set correctly) and I haven't yet worked 
>  out how to deal with this.
>  
>  It's unlikely that ActiveState will be using the MSYS shell to build 
>  wxWidgets for their PPM - so, to that extent, this post is irrelevant, 
>  if not OT.
>  
>  Cheers,
>  Rob

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