wxPerl is a wrapper built around the wxWindows GUI toolkit

Copyright (c) 2000-2002 Mattia Barbon.
This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

You need wxWindows in order to build wxPerl (see http://www.wxwindows.org/).
At this moment you may only use GTK or Win32 ( Motif in alpha stage ) 
 as windowing toolkits for wxPerl.

Please read the DEPRECATIONS section at the bottom!

INSTALLATION:

Build and install wxWindows

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

for more detailed instructions see the docs/install.txt file

TESTED PLATFORMS:

Perl            | OS            | wxWindows      | Compiler
----------------+---------------+----------------+-------------------
ActivePerl 616  | Windows 2000  | wxMSW 2.2.9    | MSVC 5
       620,628  |               | wxMSW 2.3.3    | MSVC 6
5.6.1           |               |                | MinGW GCC
5.8.0           |               |                |
----------------+---------------+----------------+-------------------
5.005_03        | Debian 3.0    | wxGTK 2.2.9    | GCC 2.95.2
5.8.0           | RedHat 7.1    | wxGTK 2.3.2    |
5.004_04 [1]    |               | wxGTK 2.3.3    |
5.6.1           |               | wxMotif 2.3.3  |
----------------+---------------+----------------+-------------------  

wxPerl has also been reported to work on FreeBSD.

[1] see docs/bugs.txt

DEPRECATIONS

The following features have been deprecated and may disappear in the future

1 - class->new always returning an hash reference
    until now calling ->new( ... ) returned an hash reference for most
    classes derived from Wx::Window, hence the following code
    worked:

    my $button = Wx::Button->new( ... );
    $button->{attribute} = 'value';

    At some point in the future this will be changed so that only
    _user-defined_ classes derived from Wx::Window
    (or from any class derived from Wx::Window)
    will yield an hash reference, hence the following code will not work:

    my $button = Wx::Button->new( ... );
    my $window = Wx::Window->new( ... );
    $button->{a} = 'b';
    $window->{c} = 'd';

    while the following code will work as it did before:

    my $button = MyButton->new( ... ); # MyButton ISA Wx::Button
    my $window = MyWindow->new( ... ); # MyWindow ISA Wx::Window
    $button->{a} = 'b';
    $window->{c} = 'd';