On Fri, 09 Nov 2007, Mark Dootson wrote:
> I maintain some unofficial PPM's for wxPerl. It is now possible to
> build the underlying wxWidgets DLL's with support for GDI+.
>
> For Windows versions 2000 and below, if you link against gdiplus you
> should install gdiplus.dll to the application directory. For Windows
> versions XP and above, you should not do this - for current versions
> of Windows, GDI+ is part of the installed OS.
>
> Are there other modules that have similar PPM installation issues that
> I could check for potential solutions?
You can use a PPM post-install script to copy the file. I posted some
documentation about it a while ago:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/ppm/2845523
The documentation is out-of-date, and not all mechanisms are implemented for
all versions of PPM. However, at least the mechanism used by the following
module works (it post-install script to install OpenSSL libraries):
http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/Crypt-SSLeay.ppd
http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/scripts/install_ssl
Note that it is best to not require user input at all in the script. If
you do ask for input, remember that STDIN may be closed and you won't get
any response at all (behavior of the PPM4 GUI right now). So make sure
you are using a sensible default in that case and don't retry to ask the
user over and over; you just end up with an endless loop...
Cheers,
-Jan
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