I first tried to build this on my ubuntu 10.04 system, but it failed with the same errors as flags8192. Experimenting with installing different version of wxWidgets did not help.
I finally git cloned from git://github.com/doublec/bitcoin-pool which seems to use pudinpop's code. This finally compiled on my machine as bitcoinr binary, but I can't figure out how to pass username as a parameter to it. Nothing in the readme file lets me do this.