I couldn't download Wx properly using cpan and kept getting an error so I tried to force-install it, now, when running:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Wx;
I get the following error:
Can't load '/usr/local/lib64/perl5/auto/Wx/Wx.so' for module Wx: libenchant.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory at /usr/lib64/perl5/DynaLoader.pm line 193.
at test.pl line 3.
Compilation failed in require at test.pl line 3.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at test.pl line 3.
Edit: I finally got it to work! First I downloaded libenchant1c2a.deb and converted it into a .txz using deb2tgz, extracted it and placed the files inside in usr/lib usr/lib64 and usr/share after that I just followed Håkon Hægland's instructions and it worked perfectly, thanks!
I was able to install Wx from source on Ubuntu 21.04 with perl version 5.32.0. I first installed the wxWidgets libraries (version 3.0.2 from prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wxwindows/wxWidgets-3.0.2.tar.bz2) by installing Alien::wxWidgets from source:
$ wget https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/M/MD/MDOOTSON/Alien-wxWidgets-0.69.tar.gz
$ tar zxvf Alien-wxWidgets-0.69.tar.gz
$ cd Alien-wxWidgets-0.69.tar.gz
$ perl Makefile.PL
perl Makefile.PL
# running Build.PL
Do you want to fetch and build wxWidgets from sources? [no ]yes
Which wxWidgets version? (2.8.10, 2.8.11, 2.8.12, 2.9.0, 2.9.1, 2.9.2, 2.9.3, 2.9.4, 3.0.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2) [3.0.2 ]
3.0.2
Which archive type? [tar.bz2 ]
tar.bz2
Do you want to include OpenGL support [no ]
no
Created MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json
Creating new 'Build' script for 'Alien-wxWidgets' version '0.69'
$ make
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/home/hakon/test/perl/Alien-wxWidgets-0.69/wxWidgets-3.0.2/bld/bk-deps g++ -c -o gldll_glx11.o -I./.pch/wxprec_gldll -D__WXGTK__ -DWXBUILDING -I../src/regex -DWXUSINGDLL -DWXMAKINGDLL_GL -fPIC -DPIC -Wall -Wundef -Wunused-parameter -Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy -Woverloaded-virtual -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/home/hakon/test/perl/Alien-wxWidgets-0.69/wxWidgets-3.0.2/bld/lib/wx/include/gtk2-unicode-3.0 -I../include -pthread -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/libmount -I/usr/include/blkid -I/usr/include/fribidi -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/uuid -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng16 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -DWX_PRECOMP -pthread -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pthread -I/usr/include/gtk-unix-print-2.0 -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/libmount -I/usr/include/blkid -I/usr/include/fribidi -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/uuid -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng16 -fvisibility=hidden -fvisibility-inlines-hidden ../src/unix/glx11.cpp
g++ -shared -fPIC -o /home/hakon/test/perl/Alien-wxWidgets-0.69/wxWidgets-3.0.2/bld/lib/libwx_gtk2u_gl-3.0.so.0.2.0 gldll_glcmn.o gldll_gtk_glcanvas.o gldll_glx11.o -L/home/hakon/test/perl/Alien-wxWidgets-0.69/wxWidgets-3.0.2/bld/lib -Wl,-soname,libwx_gtk2u_gl-3.0.so.0 -pthread -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -latk-1.0 -lcairo -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lgio-2.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lharfbuzz -lfontconfig -lfreetype -lgthread-2.0 -pthread -lglib-2.0 -lX11 -lSM -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -latk-1.0 -lcairo -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lgio-2.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lharfbuzz -lfontconfig -lfreetype -lpng -lz -ljpeg -ltiff -lwxregexu-3.0 -pthread -Wl,--version-script,/home/hakon/test/perl/Alien-wxWidgets-0.69/wxWidgets-3.0.2/bld/version-script -lz -ldl -lm -lwx_gtk2u_core-3.0 -lwx_baseu-3.0 -lGL -lGLU -lz -ldl -lm
(cd /home/hakon/test/perl/Alien-wxWidgets-0.69/wxWidgets-3.0.2/bld/lib/; rm -f libwx_gtk2u_gl-3.0.so libwx_gtk2u_gl-3.0.so.0; ln -s libwx_gtk2u_gl-3.0.so.0.2.0 libwx_gtk2u_gl-3.0.so.0; ln -s libwx_gtk2u_gl-3.0.so.0 libwx_gtk2u_gl-3.0.so)
(if test -f utils/wxrc/Makefile ; then cd utils/wxrc && make all ; fi)
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/hakon/test/perl/Alien-wxWidgets-0.69/wxWidgets-3.0.2/bld/utils/wxrc'
/home/hakon/test/perl/Alien-wxWidgets-0.69/wxWidgets-3.0.2/bld/bk-deps g++ -c -o wxrc_wxrc.o -D__WXGTK__ -I../../../utils/wxrc -DWXUSINGDLL -DwxUSE_GUI=0 -Wall -Wundef -Wunused-parameter -Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy -Woverloaded-virtual -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/home/hakon/test/perl/Alien-wxWidgets-0.69/wxWidgets-3.0.2/bld/lib/wx/include/gtk2-unicode-3.0 -I../../../include -pthread -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/libmount -I/usr/include/blkid -I/usr/include/fribidi -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/uuid -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng16 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -DWX_PRECOMP -pthread -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pthread -I/usr/include/gtk-unix-print-2.0 -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/libmount -I/usr/include/blkid -I/usr/include/fribidi -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/uuid -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng16 -fvisibility=hidden -fvisibility-inlines-hidden ../../../utils/wxrc/wxrc.cpp
g++ -o wxrc wxrc_wxrc.o -L/home/hakon/test/perl/Alien-wxWidgets-0.69/wxWidgets-3.0.2/bld/lib -pthread -lwx_baseu_xml-3.0 -lexpat -lwx_baseu-3.0 -lwxregexu-3.0 -pthread -Wl,--version-script,/home/hakon/test/perl/Alien-wxWidgets-0.69/wxWidgets-3.0.2/bld/version-script -lz -ldl -lm -lz -ldl -lm
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/hakon/test/perl/Alien-wxWidgets-0.69/wxWidgets-3.0.2/bld/utils/wxrc'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/hakon/test/perl/Alien-wxWidgets-0.69/wxWidgets-3.0.2/bld'
$ make test
/home/hakon/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.32.0/bin/perl Build --makefile_env_macros 1 test
t/01_load.t .......... ok
t/zy_pod_coverage.t .. ok
t/zz_pod.t ........... ok
All tests successful.
Files=3, Tests=15, 0 wallclock secs ( 0.01 usr 0.00 sys + 0.25 cusr 0.05 csys = 0.31 CPU)
Result: PASS
$ make install
/home/hakon/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.32.0/bin/perl Build --makefile_env_macros 1 install
Building Alien-wxWidgets
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/hakon/test/perl/Alien-wxWidgets-0.69/wxWidgets-3.0.2/bld'
(if test -f utils/wxrc/Makefile ; then cd utils/wxrc && make all ; fi)
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/hakon/test/perl/Alien-wxWidgets-0.69/wxWidgets-3.0.2/bld/utils/wxrc'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/hakon/test/perl/Alien-wxWidgets-0.69/wxWidgets-3.0.2/bld/utils/wxrc'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/hakon/test/perl/Alien-wxWidgets-0.69/wxWidgets-3.0.2/bld'
Files found in blib/arch: installing files in blib/lib into architecture dependent library tree
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/hakon/test/perl/Alien-wxWidgets-0.69/wxWidgets-3.0.2/bld'
mkdir -p /home/hakon/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.32.0/lib/site_perl/5.32.0/x86_64-linux/Alien/wxWidgets/gtk_3_0_2_uni/lib
/bin/install -c -m 644 /home/hakon/test/perl/Alien-wxWidgets-0.69/wxWidgets-3.0.2/bld/lib/libwx_baseu-3.0.so /home/hakon/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.32.0/lib/site_perl/5.32.0/x86_64-linux/Alien/wxWidgets/gtk_3_0_2_uni/lib
/bin/install -c /home/hakon/test/perl/Alien-wxWidgets-0.69/wxWidgets-3.0.2/bld/lib/libwx_baseu-3.0.so.0.2.0 /home/hakon/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.32.0/lib/site_perl/5.32.0/x86_64-linux/Alien/wxWidgets/gtk_3_0_2_uni/lib
(cd /home/hakon/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.32.0/lib/site_perl/5.32.0/x86_64-linux/Alien/wxWidgets/gtk_3_0_2_uni/lib ; rm -f libwx_baseu-3.0.so libwx_baseu-3.0.so.0; ln -s libwx_baseu-3.0.so.0.2.0 libwx_baseu-3.0.so.0; ln -s libwx_baseu-3.0.so.0 libwx_baseu-3.0.so)
[...]
done
------------------------------------------------------
The installation of wxWidgets is finished. On certain
platforms (e.g. Linux) you'll now have to run ldconfig
if you installed a shared library and also modify the
LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or equivalent) environment variable.
wxWidgets comes with no guarantees and doesn't claim
to be suitable for any purpose.
Read the wxWindows Licence on licencing conditions.
------------------------------------------------------
Then, I was able to compile Wx:
$ wget https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/M/MD/MDOOTSON/Wx-0.9932.tar.gz
$ tar zxvf Wx-0.9932.tar.gz
$ cd Wx-0.9932
$ perl Makefile.PL
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
'WX' is not a known MakeMaker parameter name.
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Warning (mostly harmless): No library found for -lwx_gtk2u_webview-3.0
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Generating a Unix-style Makefile
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======================================================================
For installation instructions and further help please see
docs/INSTALL.pod
For command line switches help use:
perl Makefile.PL --help
======================================================================
$ make
[...]
g++ -pthread -c -I. -I.. -I/home/hakon/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.32.0/lib/site_perl/5.32.0/x86_64-linux/Alien/wxWidgets/gtk_3_0_2_uni/lib/wx/include/gtk2-unicode-3.0 -I/home/hakon/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.32.0/lib/site_perl/5.32.0/x86_64-linux/Alien/wxWidgets/gtk_3_0_2_uni/include/wx-3.0 -I. -I. -I/home/hakon/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.32.0/lib/site_perl/5.32.0/x86_64-linux/Alien/wxWidgets/gtk_3_0_2_uni/lib/wx/include/gtk2-unicode-3.0 -I/home/hakon/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.32.0/lib/site_perl/5.32.0/x86_64-linux/Alien/wxWidgets/gtk_3_0_2_uni/include/wx-3.0 -I. -I../.. -I/home/hakon/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.32.0/lib/site_perl/5.32.0/x86_64-linux/Alien/wxWidgets/gtk_3_0_2_uni/lib/wx/include/gtk2-unicode-3.0 -I/home/hakon/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.32.0/lib/site_perl/5.32.0/x86_64-linux/Alien/wxWidgets/gtk_3_0_2_uni/include/wx-3.0 -fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O2 -DVERSION=\"0.01\" -DXS_VERSION=\"0.01\" -fPIC "-I/home/hakon/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.32.0/lib/5.32.0/x86_64-linux/CORE" -DWXPL_EXT -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DWXUSINGDLL -D__WXGTK__ -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DWXUSINGDLL -D__WXGTK__ -DWXPL_EXT -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DWXUSINGDLL -D__WXGTK__ XRC.c
rm -f ../../blib/arch/auto/Wx/XRC/XRC.so
LD_RUN_PATH="/home/hakon/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.32.0/lib/site_perl/5.32.0/x86_64-linux/Alien/wxWidgets/gtk_3_0_2_uni/lib" g++ -shared -O2 -fstack-protector-strong XRC.o -o ../../blib/arch/auto/Wx/XRC/XRC.so \
-L/home/hakon/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.32.0/lib/site_perl/5.32.0/x86_64-linux/Alien/wxWidgets/gtk_3_0_2_uni/lib -lpthread -lwx_gtk2u_xrc-3.0 -lwx_baseu_xml-3.0 -lwx_gtk2u_html-3.0 -lwx_gtk2u_adv-3.0 -lwx_gtk2u_core-3.0 -lwx_baseu-3.0 \
[...]
But running the tests failed initially. For some reason the embedded run path in the Perl generated shared objects did not help the dynamic loader to find the location of the wx libraries. So I needed to explicitly set LD_LIBRARY_PATH:
$ perl -MAlien::wxWidgets -E 'say Alien::wxWidgets->prefix'
/home/hakon/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.32.0/lib/site_perl/5.32.0/x86_64-linux/Alien/wxWidgets/gtk_3_0_2_uni
$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/hakon/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.32.0/lib/site_perl/5.32.0/x86_64-linux/Alien/wxWidgets/gtk_3_0_2_uni/lib make test
"/home/hakon/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.32.0/bin/perl" -MExtUtils::Command::MM -e 'cp_nonempty' -- DataView.bs ../../blib/arch/auto/Wx/DataView/DataView.bs 644
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 "/home/hakon/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.32.0/bin/perl" "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-MTest::Harness" "-e" "undef *Test::Harness::Switches; test_harness(0, '../../blib/lib', '../../blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/01_load.t ......... ok
t/02_inheritance.t .. ok
t/03_threads.t ...... skipped: no threads
t/08_ovl_func.t ..... ok
All tests successful.
Files=4, Tests=25, 1 wallclock secs ( 0.02 usr 0.00 sys + 0.25 cusr 0.03 csys = 0.30 CPU)
Result: PASS
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/hakon/test/perl/Wx-0.9932/ext/dataview'
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/hakon/test/perl/Wx-0.9932/ext/docview'
"/home/hakon/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.32.0/bin/perl" -MExtUtils::Command::MM -e 'cp_nonempty' -- DocView.bs ../../blib/arch/auto/Wx/DocView/DocView.bs 644
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 "/home/hakon/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.32.0/bin/perl" "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-MTest::Harness" "-e" "undef *Test::Harness::Switches; test_harness(0, '../../blib/lib', '../../blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/01_load.t ......... ok
t/02_inheritance.t .. ok
[...]
make[3]: Entering directory '/home/hakon/test/perl/Wx-0.9932/ext/pperl/carp'
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 "/home/hakon/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.32.0/bin/perl" "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-MTest::Harness" "-e" "undef *Test::Harness::Switches; test_harness(0, '../../../blib/lib', '../../../blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/01_load.t .. ok
All tests successful.
Files=1, Tests=1, 0 wallclock secs ( 0.01 usr 0.01 sys + 0.08 cusr 0.00 csys = 0.10 CPU)
Result: PASS
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/hakon/test/perl/Wx-0.9932/ext/pperl/carp'
make[3]: Entering directory '/home/hakon/test/perl/Wx-0.9932/ext/pperl/textval'
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 "/home/hakon/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.32.0/bin/perl" "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-MTest::Harness" "-e" "undef *Test::Harness::Switches; test_harness(0, '../../../blib/lib', '../../../blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/01_load.t .. ok
All tests successful.
Files=1, Tests=1, 0 wallclock secs ( 0.01 usr 0.00 sys + 0.07 cusr 0.02 csys = 0.10 CPU)
Result: PASS
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/hakon/test/perl/Wx-0.9932/ext/pperl/textval'
No tests defined for Wx::Perl extension.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/hakon/test/perl/Wx-0.9932/ext/pperl'
No tests defined for Wx extension.
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/hakon/test/perl/Wx-0.9932/ext'
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 "/home/hakon/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.32.0/bin/perl" "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-MTest::Harness" "-e" "undef *Test::Harness::Switches; test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/01_load.t ........... ok
t/02_inheritance.t .... ok
t/03_event.t .......... ok
t/04_userdata.t ....... ok
t/05_timer.t .......... ok
t/06_loadxpm.t ........ ok
t/07_overload.t ....... ok
t/08_ovl_func.t ....... ok
t/09_create_delete.t .. ok
t/10_oor.t ............ ok
t/11_twostage.t ....... ok
t/12_pod.t ............ skipped: Author tests
t/13_nbksizer.t ....... ok
t/14_eh_die.t ......... ok
t/15_threads.t ........ skipped: no threads
t/16_stream.t ......... ok
t/17_thread_evt.t ..... skipped: no threads
t/18_unicode.t ........ ok
t/19_overlay.t ........ ok
t/20_ctx_threads.t .... skipped: no threads
t/21_locale.t ......... ok
t/22_interface.t ...... ok
t/zz_distrib.t ........ skipped: Author tests
All tests successful.
Test Summary Report
-------------------
t/04_userdata.t (Wstat: 0 Tests: 65 Failed: 0)
TODO passed: 25, 49, 57
Files=23, Tests=770, 6 wallclock secs ( 0.12 usr 0.02 sys + 1.82 cusr 0.52 csys = 2.48 CPU)
Result: PASS
And then I could install it:
$ make install
$ perl -E 'use Wx; say "It works"'
It works