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I'm also having this error :

No such 'link' library: 'adv' at ....

I don't know the first think about perl, so it's difficult to understand what's going on, but I'm available to try things if that can help

I'm getting different error

==> Starting build()...
No such 'link' library: 'adv' at /home/micwoj92/perl-wx/src/Wx-0.9932/build/Wx/build/MakeMaker.pm line 212.

======================================================================
For installation instructions and further help please see
docs/INSTALL.pod

For command line switches help use:
perl Makefile.PL --help
======================================================================

==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...

Does this package need some specially primed env to build?

I've tried it on both my local installation and in extra-x86_64-build: both failed.

$ extra-x86_64-build -r /tmp/perl-wx/build -- -I /home/_pacman_cache/aur/perl-alien-wxwidgets-0.69-1-any.pkg.tar.zst -I /home/_pacman_cache/aur/perl-extutils-xspp-0.18-2-any.pkg.tar.zst
...
Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json
Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json
Generating a Unix-style Makefile
Writing Makefile for Wx
Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json

======================================================================
wxWidgets minimum supported version 2.007001 is missing.
You will need to re-run Makefile.PL after it is installed.
You must install wxWidgets using Alien::wxWidgets.
======================================================================

======================================================================
For installation instructions and further help please see
docs/INSTALL.pod

For command line switches help use:
perl Makefile.PL --help
======================================================================

==> Your Makefile has been rebuilt. <==
==> Please rerun the make command.  <==
false
make: *** [Makefile:1175: Makefile] Error 1
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...
==> ERROR: Build failed, check /tmp/perl-wx/build/extra-x86_64/bartus/build

All these wx things are basically broken. Some needs a newer version, some needs the old one. A long chain of dependency made it impossible to even switch from old to new or new to old, without uninstalling nearly the OS

Because of the update of wxwidgets this package can no longer be compiled

@Alad: Aha! I had actually downloaded that patch earlier, but completely forgot to try it.

I found some patches from Fedora, especially this one:

https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/perl-Wx/raw/f36/f/gtk3.patch

Upstream is dead as far as I can see

edit: builds fine with the gtk3.patch 👍

This currently fails to build. Open upstream issue: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=128994

This doesn't build with regular makepkg either. Same error from before:

==> Starting build()...
Searching configuration for:
wxWidgets 3-3.001 for gtk2; compiler compatibility: gcc 3.4; options: unicode

Available configurations:
wxWidgets 3.000005 for gtk; compiler compatibility: gcc 3.4; options: no debug, unicode, no mslu
Compilation failed in require at Makefile.PL line 21.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Makefile.PL line 21.

edit: it works with wxgtk3, the same package perl-alien-wxwidgets uses. Diff:

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 5981647..a48ac25 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ pkgdesc="Interface to the wxWidgets cross-platform GUI toolkit"
 arch=('x86_64')
 url="https://metacpan.org/dist/Wx"
 license=('GPL' 'PerlArtistic')
-depends=('perl-alien-wxwidgets' 'perl-extutils-xspp' 'wxgtk2')
+depends=('perl-alien-wxwidgets' 'perl-extutils-xspp' 'wxgtk3')
 checkdepends=('xorg-server-xvfb')
 options=('!emptydirs')
 source=("https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/M/MD/MDOOTSON/Wx-$pkgver.tar.gz")
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ build(){
   export PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 PERL_AUTOINSTALL=--skipdeps
   perl Makefile.PL \
     --wx-unicode \
-    --wx-version=$(wx-config --version | cut -d . -f 1-2) \
-    --wx-toolkit=gtk2 \
+    --wx-version=$(wx-config-gtk3 --version | cut -d . -f 1-2) \
+    --wx-toolkit=gtk \
     INSTALLDIRS=vendor
   make
 }

edit2: almost...

ake[2]: Entering directory '/home/archie/.cache/aurutils/sync/perl-wx/src/Wx-0.9932/ext/propgrid'
"/usr/bin/perl" "/usr/share/perl5/core_perl/ExtUtils/xsubpp"  -noprototypes -nolinenumbers  -typemap '/usr/share/perl5/core_perl/ExtUtils/typemap' -typemap '/home/archie/.cache/aurutils/sync/perl-wx/src/Wx-0.9932/ext/propgrid/../../typemap' -typemap '/home/archie/.cache/aurutils/sync/perl-wx/src/Wx-0.9932/ext/propgrid/typemap'  PropertyGrid.xs > PropertyGrid.xsc
Running Mkbootstrap for PropertyGrid ()
chmod 644 "PropertyGrid.bs"
"/usr/bin/perl" -MExtUtils::Command::MM -e 'cp_nonempty' -- PropertyGrid.bs ../../blib/arch/auto/Wx/PropertyGrid/PropertyGrid.bs 644
cp lib/Wx/PropertyGrid.pm ../../blib/lib/Wx/PropertyGrid.pm
Warning: duplicate function definition 'GetSelection' detected in /usr/bin/perl -pe "s/PGPGridInterfaceBase/PropertyGrid/g" xspp/PropertyGridInterface.h, line 1148
Warning: duplicate function definition 'GetSelection' detected in /usr/bin/perl -pe "s/PGPGridInterfaceBase/PropertyGridManager/g" xspp/PropertyGridInterface.h, line 1148
Warning: duplicate function definition 'GetPropertyByLabel' detected in /usr/bin/perl -pe "s/PGPGridInterfaceBase/PropertyGridPage/g" xspp/PropertyGridInterface.h, line 519
mv PropertyGrid.xsc PropertyGrid.c
g++ -pthread   -c -I. -I.. -I/usr/lib/wx/include/gtk3-unicode-3.0 -I/usr/include/wx-3.0  -I. -I. -I/usr/lib/wx/include/gtk3-unicode-3.0 -I/usr/include/wx-3.0   -I. -I../.. -I/usr/lib/wx/include/gtk3-unicode-3.0 -I/usr/include/wx-3.0  -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-plt -fexceptions -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -flto   -DVERSION=\"0.01\" -DXS_VERSION=\"0.01\" -fPIC "-I/usr/lib/perl5/5.34/core_perl/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__   PropertyGrid.c
PropertyGrid.c: In function ‘void XS_Wx__ColourProperty_SetPlValue(PerlInterpreter*, CV*)’:
PropertyGrid.c:27130:49: error: call of overloaded ‘wxVariant(wxColour&)’ is ambiguous
27130 |                 wxVariant value = wxVariant(*col);
      |                                                 ^
In file included from ../../cpp/helpers.h:19,
                 from ../../cpp/wxapi.h:170,
                 from PropertyGrid.c:23:
/usr/include/wx-3.0/wx/variant.h:187:5: note: candidate: ‘wxVariant::wxVariant(bool, const wxString&)’
  187 |     wxVariant(bool val, const wxString& name = wxEmptyString);
      |     ^~~~~~~~~
/usr/include/wx-3.0/wx/variant.h:111:5: note: candidate: ‘wxVariant::wxVariant(const wxAny&)’
  111 |     wxVariant(const wxAny& any);
      |     ^~~~~~~~~
make[2]: *** [Makefile:346: PropertyGrid.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/archie/.cache/aurutils/sync/perl-wx/src/Wx-0.9932/ext/propgrid'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:562: subdirs] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/archie/.cache/aurutils/sync/perl-wx/src/Wx-0.9932/ext'
make: *** [Makefile:682: subdirs] Error 2
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...

I'm unable to build with devtools/makechrootpkg, errors very similar to what @ibrokemypie got almost 4 years ago. I can't figure out why. Could you please test with devtools to confirm?