From 56be52b84164dc97bee339fe5fb41b255bd54aa1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vadim Zeitlin Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 00:58:29 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Explain in more details how to use wxWidgets.props Also describe a manual change which needs to be done at the project level when creating a new empty project in MSVS. --- docs/msw/install.md | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/msw/install.md b/docs/msw/install.md index 1ec18d7943..2c5f592889 100644 --- a/docs/msw/install.md +++ b/docs/msw/install.md @@ -529,8 +529,15 @@ Building Applications Using wxWidgets {#msw_build_apps} ===================================== If you use MSVS 2010 or later IDE for building your project, simply add -`wxwidgets.props` property sheet to (all) your project(s) using wxWidgets. -You don't need to do anything else. +`wxwidgets.props` property sheet to (all) your project(s) using wxWidgets +by using "View|Property Manager" menu item to open the property manager +window and then selecting "Add Existing Property Sheet..." from the context +menu in this window. + +If you've created a new empty project (i.e. chose "Empty Project" in the +"Create a new project" window shown by MSVS rather than "Windows Desktop"), +you need to change "Linker|System|SubSystem" in the project properties to +"Windows", from the default "Console". You don't need to do anything else. If you want to use CMake for building your project, please see @ref overview_cmake.