Alien::wxWidgets install fails on OSX10.10

Question

I'm trying to install Alien::wxWidgets version 0.67 with wxWidgets version 3.0.2, but no matter what I do, I get the following error:

checking if C compiler (clang -mmacosx-version-min=10.5) works with SDK/version options... configure: error: in `/Users/David/.cpan/build/Alien-wxWidgets-0.67-GGkXTu/wxWidgets-3.0.2/bld':
configure: error: no.  Try a different SDK
See `config.log' for more details
system: echo exit | sh ../configure --prefix=/Users/David/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.0/lib/site_perl/5.16.0/darwin-2level/Alien/wxWidgets/osx_cocoa_3_0_2_uni --with-osx_cocoa --with-opengl --disable-compat24 --enable-unicode  --disable-monolithic --disable-universal_binary  --enable-graphics_ctx CC=clang CXX=clang++ CXXFLAGS="-stdlib=libc++ -std=c++11" OBJCXXFLAGS="-stdlib=libc++ -std=c++11" LDFLAGS=-stdlib=libc++: 256 at Build line 60.

I've tried building with flags --with-macosx-sdk=10.5, --with-macosx-sdk=10.10, --without-macosx-sdk, --with-macosx-sdk=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.11.sdk/ but none of them worked.

Here's the part of the config.log, where I see the error, but I have no idea how to solve it:

configure:16429: checking for gcc
configure:16456: result: clang
configure:16685: checking for C compiler version
configure:16694: clang --version >&5
Apple LLVM version 7.0.0 (clang-700.0.72)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin14.5.0
Thread model: posix
configure:16705: $? = 0
configure:16694: clang -v >&5
Apple LLVM version 7.0.0 (clang-700.0.72)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin14.5.0
Thread model: posix
configure:16705: $? = 0
configure:16694: clang -V >&5
clang: error: argument to '-V' is missing (expected 1 value)
clang: error: no input files
configure:16705: $? = 1
configure:16694: clang -qversion >&5
clang: error: unknown argument: '-qversion'
clang: error: no input files
configure:16705: $? = 1
configure:16725: checking whether the C compiler works
configure:16747: clang   -stdlib=libc++ conftest.c  >&5
configure:16751: $? = 0
configure:16799: result: yes
configure:16802: checking for C compiler default output file name
configure:16804: result: a.out
configure:16810: checking for suffix of executables
configure:16817: clang -o conftest   -stdlib=libc++ conftest.c  >&5
configure:16821: $? = 0
configure:16843: result: 
configure:16865: checking whether we are cross compiling
configure:16873: clang -o conftest   -stdlib=libc++ conftest.c  >&5
configure:16877: $? = 0
configure:16884: ./conftest
configure:16888: $? = 0
configure:16903: result: no
configure:16908: checking for suffix of object files
configure:16930: clang -c   conftest.c >&5
configure:16934: $? = 0
configure:16955: result: o
configure:16959: checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler
configure:16978: clang -c   conftest.c >&5
configure:16978: $? = 0
configure:16987: result: yes
configure:16996: checking whether clang accepts -g
configure:17016: clang -c -g  conftest.c >&5
configure:17016: $? = 0
configure:17057: result: yes
configure:17074: checking for clang option to accept ISO C89
configure:17137: clang  -c   conftest.c >&5
configure:17137: $? = 0
configure:17150: result: none needed
configure:17183: checking whether we are using the Intel C compiler
configure:17203: clang -c   conftest.c >&5
conftest.c:18:17: error: use of undeclared identifier 'choke'
                choke me
                ^
1 error generated.
configure:17203: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h */
| #define PACKAGE_NAME "wxWidgets"
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "wxwidgets"
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION "3.0.2"
| #define PACKAGE_STRING "wxWidgets 3.0.2"
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "[email protected]"
| #define PACKAGE_URL ""
| #define __BSD__ 1
| #define __DARWIN__ 1
| #define TARGET_CARBON 1
| /* end confdefs.h.  */
| 
| int
| main ()
| {
| 
|              #ifndef __INTEL_COMPILER
|                 choke me
|              #endif
| 
|   ;
|   return 0;
| }
configure:17213: result: no
configure:17936: checking how to run the C preprocessor
configure:17967: clang -E  conftest.c
configure:17967: $? = 0
configure:17981: clang -E  conftest.c
conftest.c:12:10: fatal error: 'ac_nonexistent.h' file not found
#include <ac_nonexistent.h>
         ^
1 error generated.
configure:17981: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h */
| #define PACKAGE_NAME "wxWidgets"
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "wxwidgets"
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION "3.0.2"
| #define PACKAGE_STRING "wxWidgets 3.0.2"
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "[email protected]"
| #define PACKAGE_URL ""
| #define __BSD__ 1
| #define __DARWIN__ 1
| #define TARGET_CARBON 1
| /* end confdefs.h.  */
| #include <ac_nonexistent.h>

If you have any idea how to solve this issue and get wxWidgets working on OSX 10.10, I'd be really grateful.

Lucialucian

Answer 1

Add the following:

--with-macosx-version-min=10.11

Punk

I get the same error when installing Wx with sudo cpanm Wx. Where exactly to I add this? – Nightmare

Answer 2

This is not the right part of config.log, this error is normal/expected, you should look below to see the real one. Without seeing it, it's hard to be sure but I think -mmacosx-version-min=10.5 is the culprit, your SDK could be too new to support 10.5. Try either selecting a different SDK if you have an older one installed (look under /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs to check) or hunt down where this 10.5 comes from and replace it with 10.7 which is supported by 10.10 SDK (not sure about 10.11).

Seethe

I've uploaded the full config.log to pastebin, since I doesn't really know what to look for in it: config.log I only have 10.11 installed, so I can't select another one manually. – Lucialucian

This confirms what I wrote, look at the line 862. You need to use 10.7 as the minimal version with this SDK, not 10.5. Unfortunately I can't help you further as I don't know where exactly does this "10.5" come from, but you should be able to find it in Alien::wxWidgets sources. – Seethe

Answer 3

This is how I got to to mostly build under Mac OS 10.11.4:

1. Download Alien::wxWidgets from https://metacpan.org/pod/Alien::wxWidgets
2. tar xzf Alien-wxWidgets-0.67.tar.gz
3. cd Alien-wxWidgets
4. perl ./Build.PL --wxWidgets-extraflags="--with-macosx-versin-min=10.11"
5. ./Build

After several minutes of compiling, the below error stopped the build process:

../src/osx/webview_webkit.mm:936:25: error: cannot initialize a variable of type 'WebBackForwardList *' with an rvalue of type 'WKBackForwardList *'
    WebBackForwardList* history = [m_webView backForwardList];
                        ^         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
../src/osx/webview_webkit.mm:954:25: error: cannot initialize a variable of type 'WebBackForwardList *' with an rvalue of type 'WKBackForwardList *'
    WebBackForwardList* history = [m_webView backForwardList];
                        ^         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
15 warnings and 2 errors generated.
make: *** [webviewdll_osx_webview_webkit.o] Error 1
system: make all: 512 at ./Build line 60.

So --with-macosx-versin-min=10.11 gets us farther into the build process, but not (yet) to a successful build. :-(

Linnell

Answer 4

I used the steps from @Cal above, but with the patch from wxWidgets project to fix the m_webView type mismatch errors. The wxWidgets issue is tracked here: http://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/16329 and the patch is here: http://trac.wxwidgets.org/attachment/ticket/16329/0001-using-proper-types-for-webkit-variants-see-16329.patch which gives you a html view of the patch. The download link is here: http://trac.wxwidgets.org/raw-attachment/ticket/16329/0001-using-proper-types-for-webkit-variants-see-16329.patch

It looks like they've fixed this in trunk for releases >= 3.1 and this is the proposed patch for a possible 3.0.3, but since no action for 18 mos., perhaps they'll just skip it and this will go away in the next release.

I repackaged the patch to work with Alien::wxWidgets Build.PL here: http://markwal.github.io/patches/Alien-wxWidgets-0.67-El-Capitan.patch

So to recap, the steps I used to build under Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.6:

1. Download Alien::wxWidgets from https://metacpan.org/pod/Alien::wxWidgets
2. tar xvf Alien-wxWidgets-0.67.tar.gz
3. Download the patch from http://markwal.github.io/patches/Alien-wxWidgets-0.67-El-Capitan.patch
4. cd Alien-wxWidgets-0.67
5. patch -p1 < ../Alien-wxWidgets-0.67-El-Capitan.patch
6. perl ./Build.PL --wxWidgets-extraflags="--with-macosx-version-min=10.11"
7. perl Build
8. perl Build test
9. perl Build install

Junina