Mon Jan 14 08:59:30 2013: Request 82694 was acted upon.
Transaction: Ticket created by smyl...@cpan.org
Queue: Alien-wxWidgets
Subject: Spaces in folder name causes Windows build failure
Broken in: 0.62
Severity: Normal
Owner: Nobody
Requestors: smyl...@stripey.com
Status: new
Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=82694 >
Hi. It looks like building Alien::wxWidgets doesn't work on Windows in a
folder with a space in its name.
I unzipping Alien-wxWidgets-0.62.tar.gz into a folder called
'Alien-wxWidgets-0.62 2.8.12 global', and doing perl Build failed at:
Creating library file:
..\..\src\stc\..\..\..\lib\gcc_dll\libwxmsw28u_stc.a
Unable to find setup.h in directory at inc/My/Build/Win32\.pm line 117
Trying again but with underscores in the folder name rather than spaces,
the build completes fine.
It's easy enough to avoid this problem once you know about it. So if
it's tricky to fix I suggest a note in the installation instructions
saying "Don't do that" would be fine.
Cheers.
