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Hi all,

I know this is a question that has been asked maybe a zillion times or more but still I want to take the risk asking it again.

What's the best environment to create GUI's in Perl?

Perl is maybe not the best language to create GUI's but since I am knowledgeable about wxWidgets, my first choice would be wxPerl. I know this is a bit biased and this question is very subjective (you hardly can't discuss about flavours and tastes, can you?) but my problem is that I can't install wxPerl on my Windows 10 PC where I installed Strawberry Perl. It fails when it wants to compile the Alien::wxWidgets module. This is what I get:

C:\Users\Geert>cpan -i Wx
Loading internal logger. Log::Log4perl recommended for better logging
CPAN: CPAN::SQLite loaded ok (v0.217)
Database was generated on Sun, 05 Jul 2020 13:15:41 GMT
Running install for module 'Wx'
CPAN: Digest::SHA loaded ok (v6.02)
CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok (v2.093)
Checksum for D:\WinApps\PROGRA~1\STRAWB~1\cpan\sources\authors\id\M\MD
+\MDOOTSON\Wx-0.9932.tar.gz ok
CPAN: Archive::Tar loaded ok (v2.36)
CPAN: YAML::XS loaded ok (v0.81)
CPAN: CPAN::Meta::Requirements loaded ok (v2.140)
CPAN: Parse::CPAN::Meta loaded ok (v2.150010)
CPAN: CPAN::Meta loaded ok (v2.150010)
---- Unsatisfied dependencies detected during ----
----         MDOOTSON/Wx-0.9932.tar.gz        ----
    Alien::wxWidgets [build_requires]
Running install for module 'Alien::wxWidgets'
Checksum for D:\WinApps\PROGRA~1\STRAWB~1\cpan\sources\authors\id\M\MD
+\MDOOTSON\Alien-wxWidgets-0.69.tar.gz ok
CPAN: Module::CoreList loaded ok (v5.20200314)
CPAN: Module::Build loaded ok (v0.4231)
Configuring M/MD/MDOOTSON/Alien-wxWidgets-0.69.tar.gz with Build.PL
Created MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json
Creating new 'Build' script for 'Alien-wxWidgets' version '0.69'
  MDOOTSON/Alien-wxWidgets-0.69.tar.gz
  D:\WinApps\Programming\StrawberryPerl\perl\bin\perl.exe Build.PL -- 
+OK
Running Build for M/MD/MDOOTSON/Alien-wxWidgets-0.69.tar.gz
Building Alien-wxWidgets
process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, D:/WinApps/Programming/StrawberryPe
+rl/c/bin/ -c "echo gcc_mswdll/minimal_sample_rc.o >> gcc_mswdll/minim
+al.exe.rsp.tmp", ...) failed.
makefile.gcc:221: pipe: No such file or directory
process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, D:/WinApps/Programming/StrawberryPe
+rl/c/bin/ -c "echo gcc_mswdll/minimal_minimal.o >> gcc_mswdll/minimal
+.exe.rsp.tmp", ...) failed.
makefile.gcc:221: pipe: No such file or directory
Can't open(GLOB(0x2f31a90), D:\WinApps\Programming\wxWidgets\lib\gcc_d
+ll\msw\build.cfg): No such file or directory at ./Build line 66.
  MDOOTSON/Alien-wxWidgets-0.69.tar.gz
  D:\WinApps\Programming\StrawberryPerl\perl\bin\perl.exe ./Build -- N
+OT OK
Stopping: 'install' failed for 'Alien::wxWidgets'.
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An alternative would be Perl/Tk, but I have no experience with this. I've also seen Win32::GUI but again, no experience with this.

Next to the fact that I'm missing experience with those GUI "languages", I see those modules are quite old and I'm wondering if it's still useful to step into such "unsure" development environment.

Any suggestions?

Best rgds,
Geert

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