How to add a new `wxUSE_XXX` preprocessor constant ================================================ 0. Purpose ---------- Detailed description of what needs to be done when you want to add a new `wxUSE_XXX` compilation flag. The text below assumes you need new `wxUSE_FOO`. 1. Overview ----------- wxWidgets uses `wxUSE_XXX` macros for conditionally compiling in (or not) optional components. In general, whenever a new non critical (i.e. not absolutely required by important parts of the library) class Foo is added it should use its own `wxUSE_FOO` compilation flag. `wxUSE_FOO` must be always defined and have value of 0 or 1. Be careful with testing for it in wx/foo.h: don't do it at the very beginning of the file because then `wxUSE_FOO` would be not defined at all if the user directly includes wx/foo.h, include "wx/defs.h" before testing for `wxUSE_FOO`. 2. Files to update ------------------ The following files need to be modified when adding a new `wxUSE_FOO`: a) include/wx/setup_inc.h This file contains all common `wxUSE_XXXs`, and is used to update wxMSW, wxMac setup.h and Unix setup.h.in using build/update-setup-h. Please try to add the new define in a logical place (i.e. near any related ones) and write a detailed comment explaining what does it do and why would you want to turn it on/off. Choose the appropriate default value: this should be usually 1 but can be 0 if there are some problems preventing the use of Foo by default (e.g. it requires installation of some non standard 3rd party libraries). After changing this file, run the update-setup-h script (this is probably better done on a Unix machine although it should work under Cygwin too). a') include/wx/msw/setup_inc.h for MSW-specific options This file contains MSW-specific options, so if the new option is only used under MSW, add it here instead of include/wx/setup_inc.h. The rest of the instructions is the same as above. b) include/wx/chkconf.h Add the check for `wxUSE_FOO` definedness in the corresponding (base or GUI) section. Please keep the alphabetic order. If there are any dependencies, i.e. `wxUSE_FOO` requires `wxUSE_BAR` and `wxUSE_BAZ`, check for thme here too. b') include/wx/msw/chkconf.h for MSW-specific options These options won't be defined for the other ports, so shouldn't be added to the common include/wx/chkconf.h but to this file instead. c) configure.in Here you need to add `DEFAULT_wxUSE_FOO` define. It should be added in the block beginning after WX_ARG_CACHE_INIT line and should default to "no" for "if DEBUG_CONFIGURE = 1" branch (this is used for absolutely minimal builds) and the same as default value in setup_inc.h in the "else" branch. You also need to add a WX_ARG_ENABLE (or, if new functionality can be reasonably described as support for a 3rd party library, WX_ARG_WITH) line togetherw with all the existing WX_ARG_ENABLEs. If you have a sample/foo which should be only built when `wxUSE_FOO==1`, then only add it to the SAMPLES_SUBDIRS if `wxUSE_FOO=yes` in configure. d) build/cmake/options.cmake To include the option in CMake, add a new line in the appropriate section of options.cmake. wx_option(wxUSE_FOO "enable FOO") As an optional third parameter you may specify `OFF` when the option should be disabled by default. e) docs/doxygen/mainpages/const_wxusedef.h Add a brief description of the new constant.