Building wxGTK port with Win32 MSys2 GDK backend {#plat_msw_msys2_gtk} ------------------------------------------------ GTK+ widget toolkit has multiple GDK backends and one of them is Win32. It is a wrapper around Windows API. These notes don't consider building wxGTK with X11 backend under Windows. The MSys2 website is http://www.msys2.org/ These building steps are NOT the normal way to build MSys2 MinGW packages. But, they are a way the wxWidgets developers can test that wxWidgets can build the wxGTK/Win32 libraries under MSys2 MinGW. For the MSys2 way please see https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages and https://github.com/msys2/msys2/wiki/Creating-packages Building steps: A. Install the MSys2 mingw packages needed to build wxGTK/Win32 using the configure/make build method. From the MSys2 MinGW prompt: pacman -S --needed --noconfirm make pacman -S --needed --noconfirm ${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-libjpeg-turbo pacman -S --needed --noconfirm ${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-libpng pacman -S --needed --noconfirm ${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-libtiff pacman -S --needed --noconfirm ${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-gcc pacman -S --needed --noconfirm ${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-pkg-config ## gtk3 can take a long time to update/find fonts pacman -S --needed --noconfirm ${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-gtk3 Packages that are needed but are normally installed already. pacman -S --needed --noconfirm ${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-gcc-libs pacman -S --needed --noconfirm ${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-expat pacman -S --needed --noconfirm ${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-xz pacman -S --needed --noconfirm ${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-zlib pacman -S --needed --noconfirm ${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-gdk-pixbuf2 B. Build the wxGTK/Win32 static library 1. Open MSys2 MinGW Prompt (These steps were tested on MinGW64; but, should work under MinGW32) 2. Use the cd command to change directory to the wxWidgets top folder. 3. Create the "build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-gtk3-static" folder to build the static libraries mkdir -p build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-gtk3-static 4. Configure wxWidgets Option "--disable-precomp-headers" is NOT needed. It is being used to test for compile issues. Remove configure option "--disable-wxdib" to set wxUSE_WXDIB to 1. The directions docs/msw/gtk.txt results in wxUSE_WXDIB set to 1. cd build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-gtk3-static && \ ../configure --with-gtk=3 \ --disable-wxdib \ --disable-shared \ --disable-precomp-headers \ && cd .. 5. clean the wxGTK static libraries cd build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-gtk3-static && make clean && cd .. 6. make the wxGTK static libraries cd build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-gtk3-static && make && cd .. C. Build and run the minimal static sample 1. Clean the minimal sample cd build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-gtk3-static/samples/minimal && make clean && cd ../../.. 2. Build the minimal sample cd build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-gtk3-static/samples/minimal && make && cd ../../.. 3. Run the minimal sample ./build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-gtk3-static/samples/minimal/minimal.exe D. Build most of the static samples 1. Clean most of the static samples cd build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-gtk3-static/samples && make clean && cd ../.. 2. Build most of the static samples cd build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-gtk3-static/samples && make && cd ../.. E. Run the drawing static sample cd samples/drawing && ../../build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-gtk3-static/samples/drawing/drawing.exe && cd ../.. F. Run the splash static sample cd samples/splash && ../../build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-gtk3-static/samples/splash/splash.exe && cd ../.. G. Run the widgets static sample cd samples/widgets && ../../build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-gtk3-static/samples/widgets/widgets.exe && cd ../.. H. Run the toolbar static sample cd samples/toolbar && ../../build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-gtk3-static/samples/toolbar/toolbar.exe && cd ../.. I. Run the image static sample cd samples/image && ../../build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-gtk3-static/samples/image/image.exe && cd ../..