The Gnome2 module allows a perl developer to use the Gnome libraries. Find out more about Gnome+ at http://www.gnome.org.
The perl bindings follow the C API very closely, and the C reference documentation should be considered the canonical source.
To discuss gtk2-perl, ask questions and flame/praise the authors, join gtk-perl-list@gnome.org at lists.gnome.org.
Also have a look at the gtk2-perl website and sourceforge project page, http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net
To install this module type the following:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
To avoid installing to a system directory, since this is a beta release, you can change the installation prefix at Makefile.PL time with
perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/some/other/place
This will install the module to the subdirectory lib/perl5 under the given prefix. If this is not already in perl's include path, you'll need to tell perl how to get to this library directory so you can use it; there are three ways:
in your environment (the easiest):
PERL5LIB=/some/other/place/lib/perl5/site_perl:$PERL5LIB
on the perl command line:
perl -I /some/other/place/lib/perl5/site_perl yourscript
in the code of your perl script:
use lib '/some/other/place/lib/perl5/site_perl';
This module requires these other modules and libraries:
perl >= 5.8.0
Glib >= 1.04 (perl module and requisite C libraries)
Gtk2 >= 1.00 (perl module and requisite C libraries)
Gnome2::Canvas >= 1.00 (perl module and requisite C libraries)
Gnome2::VFS >= 1.00 (perl module and requisite C libraries)
libgnomeui > 2.x (C library) and dependencies
libbonoboui > 2.x (C library) and dependencies
To build this module from source, you'll also need:
ExtUtils::Depends >= 0.20
ExtUtils::PkgConfig >= 1.03
Copyright (C) 2003-2006 by the gtk2-perl team (see the file AUTHORS)