WXPERL_OVERLOAD(1p)

✨ NAME ✨

wxperl_overload — the little script that creates overload declarations for wxPerl extensions 🫶

This page lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation collection, and honestly it's giving "small but mighty."

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

# usually invoked from Makefile
wxperl_overload <.cpp file> <.h file> files...

wxperl_overload <.cpp file> <.h file> file.lst

Periodt. That's the whole summoning ritual 💅

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🎀 DOCUMENTATION 🎀

Okay so bestie, picture this: this script is usually invoked from an ExtUtils::MakeMaker-generated file by using WX_OVERLOAD in Makefile.PL. No cap — it just slides in from the build system like it owns the place ✨

It scans the files given on the command line, or listed in the .lst file, searching for wxPerl overload declarations 🔍 It's out here doing a vibe check on every file it's handed.

Then it writes a .h file, with a matching .cpp file, containing the definition for wxPerl overload constants. Iconic behavior, truly. It ate and left no crumbs 💖

Lowkey the main character energy here is: scan files ➡️ find overload declarations ➡️ produce .h + .cpp definitions. Simple, slay, done 🌈

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mwah 💋 this was WXPERL_OVERLOAD(1p) from perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-08-20 — go forth and overload responsibly, bestie 🦋👑