Unable to Install Wx - Strawberry Perl on Windows 10

Question

While trying to install Wx for Strawberry Perl I am receiving the following error:

gcc -c -o gcc_mswudll\wxregex_regcomp.o -O2 -mthreads -DHAVE_W32API_H -DNDEBUG -I....\include -I....\lib\gcc_dll\mswu -D__WXMSW__ -D_UNICODE -m64 -MTgcc_mswudll\wxregex_regcomp.o -MFgcc_mswudll\wxregex_regcomp.o.d -MD -MP ../../src/regex/regcomp.c ../../src/regex/regcomp.c:1:0: sorry, unimplemented: 64-bit mode not compiled in makefile.gcc:5702: recipe for target 'gcc_mswudll\wxregex_regcomp.o' failed gmake: *** [gcc_mswudll\wxregex_regcomp.o] Error 1 system: gmake -f makefile.gcc all UNICODE=1 MSLU=0 BUILD=release SHARED=1 DEBUG_INFO=default DEBUG_FLAG=1 LDFLAGS=" -m64" CPPFLAGS="-m64": 512 at inc/My/Build/Win32.pm line 284. MDOOTSON/Alien-wxWidgets-0.67.tar.gz D:\Perl\perl\bin\perl.exe ./Build -- NOT OK Stopping: 'install' failed for 'Alien::wxWidgets'.

So this actually seems to be in the compile itself? Using CPAN to install. Not sure where to go from here. Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

The core problem is the line

sorry, unimplemented: 64-bit mode not compiled in

so you are using the -m64 option on a gcc that doesn't support 64-bit

Ordinarily I would expect the only gcc in your path to be the one that comes with Strawberry Perl, so are you using Cygwin or something that is causing the build to pick up the wrong compiler?