_Installing wxPerl on Snow Leopard (works also for 64bit processors)_

Last modified on : 27.09.2009

I needed to run wxPerl on my new Macbook Pro with 64bit capable processor. wxWidgets doesn't support 64bit so I needed to compile everything in 32bit. Here comes how...

Fire up a Terminal and do the following: (you might prefer to create a temporary directory for doing all this)

Start with installing perl in 32bit

Download the current perl.tar.gz from perl.com.

wget http://www.cpan.org/src/perl-5.10.1.tar.gz

explode the archive and move into the created directory
```
tar -xvzf perl-5.10.1.tar.gz
cd perl-5.10.1
```
specify the SDK you wish to compile perl against (this is not really needed)
```
export SDK=/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk
```

Configure the build instructions

./Configure -Dcc="gcc -m32" -Dprefix=/usr/local -Uloclibpth -Dlibpth=/usr/lib -Accflags="-arch i386 -g -pipe -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include" -Aldflags="-arch i386 -L/usr/local/lib" -Alddlflags="-arch i386 -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup -L/usr/local/lib" -d

Build and test
```
make
make test
```
install perl as superuser
```
sudo make install
```
use the newly installed perl by default: Add /usr/local/bin to the PATH

Use your favorite editor to edit $HOME/.profile. Then add this line to the bottom of the file :
```
PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
```

Now build wxWidgets
- Download wxwidgets 2.8.10: Open this link in your browser: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wxwindows/wxWidgets-2.8.10.tar.gz
- explode and move into directory
```
tar -xvzf wxWidgets-2.8.10.tar.gz
cd wxWidgets-2.8.10
```
- Configure the build instructions
```
arch_flags="-arch i386"
./configure CFLAGS="$arch_flags" CXXFLAGS="$arch_flags" LDFLAGS="$arch_flags" OBJCFLAGS="$arch_flags" OBJCXXFLAGS="$arch_flags"
```
- Build and test
```
make
make test
```
- install wxWidgets as superuser
```
sudo make install
```
Install stc
- While still in the wx source directory, go to contrib/src/stc subdirectory
- Compile and install
```
make
make test
sudo make install
```

Then install Alien::wxWidgets

Get the archive

wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MB/MBARBON/Alien-wxWidgets-0.44.tar.gz

explode and move into directory

tar -xvzf Alien-wxWidgets-0.44.tar.gz
cd Alien-wxWidgets-0.44

Configure the build instructions
```
perl Build.PL
```
answer 'no' when asking to refetch and install wxWidgets
Build and test
```
perl Build
perl Build test
```
install as superuser
```
sudo perl Build install
```

install Wx from cpan
- only one step for this ;)
```
sudo cpan Wx
```

_wxGrid cell attributes_

Last modified on : 21.07.2008

wxGrid is a terrific widget. It allows to use images and show data in grid format any way you'd like. i.e. you can modify the background of a row each two rows. What you need to configure this and other behaviour are cell attributes.

First you have to create a Wx::GridCellAttr and set cell attributes you want. Then you tell your grid to apply the setting by allocating the new style to i.e. a row by using SetRowAttr.

_Installing wxPerl on Snow Leopard (works also for 64bit processors)_

_wxGrid cell attributes_

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