Revision history for Perl extension Alien::wxWidgets.

0.52 Thu May 05 08:00:00 BST 2011

• release 0.51_01 as 0.52

0.51_01 Thu Apr 21 22:28:51 BST 2011

• 64 bit mingw printing fix
• 2.9.1 default for 64bit MacOSX
• 2.8.12 general default

0.51 Tue Mar 30 22:28:51 CEST 2010

• Build fix for Perl 5.12.

0.50_02 Sun Mar 21 10:33:00 CET 2010

• Fixed 64 bit compilation when using the MinGW-w64 compiler.

0.50_01 Fri Feb 26 17:08:21 CET 2010

• Added wxWidgets-extraflags build option.
• Exit with an error message under Cygwin.
• Use the system version of Archive::Extract and File::Fetch if newer than the bundled version.

0.50 Sun Jan 10 16:16:44 CET 2010

• When compiling on Windows with MSVC 9, make the generated wxWidgets DLL load correctly by adding a manifest to them (suggested by IKEGAMI).
• Add a missing file to the distribution.

0.49 Sat Jan 9 10:39:02 CET 2010

• Support GCC 4 and 64 bit GCC builds on Windows (patch by KMX).
• Fix monolithic build handling for wxWidgets' 2.8.x.

0.48 Fri Dec 25 18:23:56 CET 2009

• Fix the compiler check for Visual C++.

0.47 Sat Dec 5 16:16:05 CET 2009

• Released 0.46_01 as 0.47.

0.46_01 Tue Nov 24 20:34:25 CET 2009

• Do not give a warning when installed using WiX (patch by Curtis Jewell).
• Tentative patch to correctly detect wxWidgets under OpenBSD, based on RT ticket 41678.
• Under Solaris, use GNU Make to build wxWidgets, and fail if it is not present or can't be detected.
• Detect wxWidgets versions that have been installed using Alien::wxWidgets itself and avoid needlessly recompiling/reinstalling it.

0.46 Sun Nov 8 16:25:02 CET 2009

• Allow choosing the wxWidgets version to build (defaults to the latest stable release when building from the CPAN shell).
• Add a build configuration for wxWidgets 2.9.0.
• On Snow Leopard, build wxCocoa when building wxWidgets 2.9.0 with a 64 bit Perl.
• On Windows, enable the 'portable' option by default (finds the wxWidgets libraries relative to the Alien::wxWidgets installation directory).

0.45 Wed Oct 14 22:54:35 CEST 2009

• On Snow Leopard, abort wxWidgets build if Perl is 64 bit.
• On Snow Leopard, force wxWidgets build to be 32 bit.

0.44 Sun Aug 9 12:56:05 CEST 2009

• Rename all command line options to avoid clashing with Module::Build options.

0.43 Sun May 10 09:46:05 CEST 2009

• Fix building under recent FreeBSD versions (patch by Cezary Morga).
• Correctly handle monolithic build on wxWidgets' 2.9.x.
• Support Cocoa builds for wxWidgets 2.9.x.
• Fix building wxWidgets when the build path contains spaces.
• Patch and build wxWidgets 2.8.10.

0.42 Sat Nov 8 00:51:18 CET 2008

• Add an option for building with Unicode support in interactive configuration (defaults to yes).
• Use ExtUtils::CBuilder to try to detect non-working (or non-installed) compilers.

0.41 Mon Oct 27 22:22:25 CET 2008

• Rewrite show_configurations to display a pretty-printed version of the available wxWidgets builds.
• When load() fails to find a compatible configuration, display a the selection criteria and a list of available configurations.

0.40 Wed Oct 15 20:23:15 CEST 2008

• Always use Archive::Extract to extract the wxWidgets archive since it now handles .bz2 files correctly on all platforms.
• Add a manifest to the bundled patch.exe to avoid triggering an UAC prompt under Windows Vista.

0.39 Mon Sep 8 20:56:44 CEST 2008

• Add missing file to MANIFEST.

0.38 Sun Aug 24 11:17:37 CEST 2008

• Patch and build wxWidgets 2.8.8.
• When running with AUTOMATED_TESTING try to detect GTK+2 presence and abort early if it can't be found.

0.37 Sun Jun 29 21:40:16 CEST 2008

• Always use binary programs to extract archives, unless under Win32.

0.36 Mon May 19 22:35:46 CEST 2008

• Renamed 0.35_01 to 0.36.

0.35_01 Mon May 12 23:43:02 CEST 2008

• Handle --install_base correctly when building wxWidgets during Alien::wxWidgets build.

0.35 Thu May 1 16:25:04 CEST 2008

• Correctly handle monolithic build on Win32. (patch by Mark Dootson)
• Add mk_portable (Win32-only) build option to create a self-contained wxWidgets+Alien::wxWidgets installation even when not building wxWidgets together with Alien::wxWidgets. (patch by Mark Dootson)

0.34 Sun Apr 13 12:40:08 CEST 2008

• Correctly detect GCC 4.3. (patch by Roberto C. Sánchez)

0.33 Sat Jan 19 17:35:57 CET 2008

• Patch and build wxWidgets 2.8.7.

0.32 Thu Aug 16 00:11:40 CEST 2007

• Patch and build wxWidgets 2.8.4.
• Correctly handle flags for wxWidgets Universal Mac builds.
• Allow building a monolithic wxWidgets.
• Allow building Mac Universal binaries for wxWidgets.
• Updated bundled Archive::Extract to the latest version.

0.31 Sat Mar 24 17:25:25 CET 2007

• Patch and build wxWidgets 2.8.3.
• Automatically link in C++ runtime for MSVC 7.0 and above.

0.30 Sun Mar 18 16:47:23 CET 2007

• Fetch and build wxWidgets 2.8.2.

0.29 Fri Mar 16 20:11:31 CET 2007

• Must require Perl 5.006, not 5.6.

0.28 Sat Mar 10 21:41:32 CET 2007

• Release 0.27_51 as the new stable version.

0.27_51 Sun Feb 25 22:54:07 CET 2007

• Fetch and build wxWidgets 2.8.1.

0.27_50 Sun Feb 25 22:39:43 CET 2007

• Fetch and build wxWidgets 2.8.0.
• Update bundled modules to the latest version.

0.27 Tue Dec 19 23:04:41 CET 2006

• Support monolithic wxWidgets builds.

0.26 Sat Dec 16 19:42:57 CET 2006

• Improve error reporting for missing libraries.

0.25 Sun Nov 5 18:39:22 CET 2006

• Add aui and richtest to the wxWidgets libraries searched with wx-config.

0.24 Fri Oct 20 21:27:57 CEST 2006

• Add an option for disabling OpenGL support when building wxWidgets.

0.23 Thu Oct 19 21:41:16 CEST 2006

• Use a smart default for the "Do you want to build

  wxWidgets?" question.

0.22 Tue Oct 3 20:30:48 CEST 2006

• Fixed a bug in detecting an installed wxWidgets in /usr/lib64 in x86_64 systems. (patch by Jose Pedro Oliveira)
• When fetching wxWidgets, print the download URL.

0.21 Sun Aug 27 17:17:56 CEST 2006

• Check that the build environment is sane under Win32.

0.20 Tue Aug 15 17:45:12 CEST 2006

• Bundle and use the patch implementation from GNU under Windows; the PPT implementation is way too fragile.

0.19 Sun Jul 16 15:46:11 CEST 2006

• Fixes for when the compiler user for building is not in the PATH when installing.

0.18 Sun Jul 9 12:31:44 CEST 2006

• Restored compatibility with wxWidgets 2.4 where it uses configure/wx-config.

0.17 Fri Jul 7 22:14:13 CEST 2006

• Do not test POD for bundled libraries.

0.16 Wed Jul 5 21:58:33 CEST 2006

• Fixed extraction error when using Archive::Extract.

0.15 Wed Jul 5 20:26:32 CEST 2006

• Bundled missing Archive::Extract.

0.14 Sun Jun 25 13:00:37 CEST 2006

• Make the wxWidgets archive type configurable when building wxWidgets, defaulting to .tar.gz instead of .tar.bz2.

0.13 Sun Jun 18 17:52:44 CEST 2006

• Removed (unused) Module::Install from inc.

0.12 Mon Jun 5 21:59:58 CEST 2006

• Work with old versions of Test::Pod.
• Added a 'passthrough' Makefile.PL.
• Take GCC ABI compatibility into account when comparing compiler versions.
• Clearly signal that we need bzip2 to extract wxWidgets.

0.11 Thu May 25 22:27:05 CEST 2006

• Bundle and use the patch implementation from PPT.
• Rediffed all the patches against wxWidgets 2.6.3.

0.10 Sun May 21 19:19:39 CEST 2006

• Prefer $CXX to $CC if both are set.
• Download and build wxWidgets 2.6.3.

0.09 Tue May 2 21:27:03 CEST 2006

• Use mingw32-make as an alternative to make under Win32/MinGW.

0.08 Sun Apr 30 12:33:01 CEST 2006

• Fix the build process with CPANPLUS.

0.07 Mon Apr 24 23:16:30 CEST 2006

• Fix the download URL for wxWidgets 2.6.2.
• Fix the build process under Windows.

0.06 Sun Apr 23 14:35:47 CEST 2006

• Cache the absolute path of the wx-config used, and always use it during the build even if PATH changes.

0.05 Fri Apr 21 22:40:38 CEST 2006

• Work around a Module::Build handling of @INC when building from CPAN.

0.04 Sun Apr 16 17:01:07 CEST 2006

• Optionally build wxWidgets from sources.
• Allow some actions (like 'dist') to be executed without an installed wxWidgets.
• Detect when some wxWidgets contrib libraries are not built on wx-config platforms.
• Check for a recent 'nmake' for Win32+MSVC+Bakefile.

0.03 Wed Aug 17 20:57:49 CEST 2005

• Allow multiple configurations to be installed at the same time.

0.02 Wed Aug 17 00:53:40 CEST 2005

• Added support for wxWidgets 2.4.x.
• Fixed option handling.
• Small corrections to the existing code.
• Added documentation.

0.01 Tue Aug 16 00:00:12 CEST 2005

• First release. Only supports detecting an already-installed wxWidgets. Works for wxWidgets 2.5.x/2.6.x under Mac OS X, Windows, Linux (and probably other Unices).