Editing Perl and wxWidgets RAD on Windows (section)

== The Modern Reset ==

The modern Perl Lazarus direction is best understood as a stack consolidation project, not a new IDE from scratch.

The practical stack is:

* [https://strawberryperl.com/ Strawberry Perl] for Perl and build tools
* [https://github.com/sciurius/perl-Alien-wxWidgets Alien::wxWidgets] and [https://github.com/sciurius/wxPerl Wx/wxPerl] for the wxWidgets binding
* [https://wxglade.sourceforge.net/ wxGlade] for Perl-friendly visual GUI design
* <code>PAR::Packer</code>, <code>pp</code>, <code>wxpar</code>, and related tools for executable packaging
* DLL discovery helpers such as <code>pp_autolink</code>
* installer systems such as [https://jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php Inno Setup], [https://nsis.sourceforge.io/Main_Page NSIS], or [https://wixtoolset.org/ WiX]
* a helper application, Martha, to reduce the packaging and installer gap

The current problem is not merely generating Perl code from wxGlade. The user also needs to distribute the result in the way Windows users expect.

That means building a workflow from:

# install the development stack

# verify wxPerl works

# design the GUI

# generate or load the interface

# write the Perl behavior

# package the program

# find required DLLs

# build an installer

# test on a clean Windows machine