Hi Erik, Thanks for providing this information. The URL for the IUP toolkit, for people who are interested, is
https://github.com/mrhdias/perl6-IUP I imagine it would take a mammoth effort to port Wx to perl 6. I applaud anyone who even contemplates taking on such a task. This is definitely far beyond my technical ability. Cheers, Ron. On 6/02/16 7:35 PM, "Erik Colson" <e...@ecocode.net> wrote: > Ron Grunwald <ron...@yahoo.com.au> writes: > >> Thank goodness wxPerl is not in the same category yet. Now, having said that >> there are a couple of interesting things to consider. Depending how popular >> Perl 6 will become, if wxPerl were to be the first native GUI toolkit for >> Perl 6 programmers, I can see how that would spark renewed interest in >> wxPerl among the Perl community. > > Hi Ron! > > Perl6 already has a IUP module. So wxPerl can't be the first ;) I didn't > test it though. > > I do have interest to use wxwidgets with Perl6. So I started playing > with NativeCall. Name mangling is a pain in the a**. I'm still figuring > how bindings between Perl6 and C++ should work, because Perl6 has some > support for name mangling C++. But I can't get it to work yet. > > I did some research on this and I have to admit writing these bindings > is no easy job. If anyone has some kind of basic example, like opening a > wxframe, I'd be more than grateful :) > > best
