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wxWindows 2.5 for GTK installation
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IMPORTANT NOTE:
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If you experience problems installing, please re-read these
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instructions and other related files (todo.txt, bugs.txt and
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osname.txt for your platform if it exists) carefully before
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mailing wxwin-users or the author. Preferably, try to fix the
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problem first and then send a patch to the author.
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When sending bug reports tell us what version of wxWindows you are
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using (including the beta) and what compiler on what system. One
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example: wxGTK 2.4.0, gcc 2.95.4, Redhat 6.2
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* The simplest case
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-------------------
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If you compile wxWindows on Linux for the first time and don't like to read
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install instructions just do (in the base dir):
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> ./configure --with-gtk
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> make
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> su <type root password>
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> make install
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> ldconfig
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> exit
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Afterwards you can continue with
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> make
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> su <type root password>
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> make install
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> ldconfig
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> exit
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If you want to remove wxWindows on Unix you can do this:
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> su <type root password>
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> make uninstall
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> ldconfig
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> exit
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* The GTK+ 2 case
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-----------------
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wxGTK has support for the new version 2.0.X of GTK+ since version 2.4.0.
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This means that wxGTK apps can now make use Unicode as the underlying encoding
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for all text operations. This is a very fundamental change and will need time
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to stabilize, so be careful. Anyways, after installing a recent version of GTK+
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2.0, do this
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> ./configure --with-gtk --enable-gtk2 --enable-unicode
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> make
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> su <type root password>
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> make install
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> ldconfig
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> exit
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If you are adventurous, you can install the FcConfig 2.0 package
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and the Pango library from CVS (or a very recent snapshot from
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the upcoming 1.2 series) and set do "export GDK_USE_XFT=1" so
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that the display as well as the printing code will use render
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using the same FreeType code even for Far Eastern encodings.
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Expect problems.
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* The expert case
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-----------------
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If you want to do some more serious cross-platform programming with wxWindows,
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such as for GTK and Motif, you can now build two complete libraries and use
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them concurrently. For this end, you have to create a directory for each build
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of wxWindows - you may also want to create different versions of wxWindows
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and test them concurrently. Most typically, this would be a version configured
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with --enable-debug and one without. Note, that only one build can
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currently be installed, so you'd have to use local version of the library for
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that purpose.
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For building three versions (one GTK, one Motif and a debug version of the GTK
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source) you'd do this:
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md buildmotif
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cd buildmotif
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../configure --with-motif
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make
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cd ..
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md buildgtk
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cd buildgtk
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../configure --with-gtk
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make
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cd ..
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md buildgtkd
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cd buildgtkd
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../configure --with-gtk --enable-debug
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make
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cd ..
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* The simplest errors
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---------------------
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For any configure errors: please look at config.log file which was generated
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during configure run, it usually contains some useful information.
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configure reports, that you don't have GTK 1.2 installed although you are
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very sure you have. Well, you have installed it, but you also have another
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version of the GTK installed, which you may need to remove including other
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versions of glib (and its headers). Or maybe you installed it in non default
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location and configure can't find it there, so please check that your PATH
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variable includes the path to the correct gtk-config. Also check that your
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LD_LIBRARY_PATH or equivalent variable contains the path to GTK+ libraries if
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they were installed in a non default location.
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You get errors from make: please use GNU make instead of the native make
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program. Currently wxWindows can be built only with GNU make, BSD make and
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Solaris make. Other versions might work or not (any which don't have VPATH
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support definitely won't).
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You get errors during compilation: The reason is that you probably have a
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broken compiler. GCC 2.8 and earlier versions and egcs are likely to cause
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problems due to incomplete support for C++ and optimisation bugs. Best to use
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GCC 2.95 or later.
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You get immediate segfault when starting any sample or application: This is
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either due to having compiled the library with different flags or options than
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your program - typically you might have the __WXDEBUG__ option set for the
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library but not for your program - or due to using a compiler with optimisation
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bugs.
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Linker complains about missing PROIO_yy_flex_alloc and similar symbols: you
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probably have an old version of flex, 2.5.4 is recommended.
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* The simplest program
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----------------------
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Now create your super-application myfoo.cpp and compile anywhere with
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g++ myfoo.cpp `wx-config --libs --cxxflags` -o myfoo
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* General
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The Unix variants of wxWindows use GNU configure. If you have problems with
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your make use GNU make instead.
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If you have general problems with installation, read my homepage at
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http://wesley.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~wxxt/
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for newest information. If you still don't have any success, please send a bug
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report to one of our mailing lists (see my homepage) INCLUDING A DESCRIPTION OF
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YOUR SYSTEM AND YOUR PROBLEM, SUCH AS YOUR VERSION OF GTK, WXGTK, WHAT
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DISTRIBUTION YOU USE AND WHAT ERROR WAS REPORTED. I know this has no effect,
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but I tried...
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* GUI libraries
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wxWindows/GTK requires the GTK+ library to be installed on your system. It has
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to be a stable version, preferably version 1.2.10 (at least 1.2.3 is required,
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1.2.7 is strongly recommended).
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You can get the newest version of the GTK+ from the GTK homepage at:
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http://www.gtk.org
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We also mirror GTK+ at my ftp site. You'll find information about downloading
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at my homepage.
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* Additional libraries
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wxWindows/Gtk requires a thread library and X libraries known to work with
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threads. This is the case on all commercial Unix-Variants and all
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Linux-Versions that are based on glibc 2 except RedHat 5.0 which is broken in
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many aspects. As of writing this, virtually all Linux distributions have
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correct glibc 2 support.
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You can disable thread support by running
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./configure --disable-threads
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make
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su <type root password>
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make install
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ldconfig
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exit
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* Building wxGTK on OS/2
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Please send comments and question about the OS/2 installation
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to Andrea Venturoli <a.ventu@flashnet.it> and patches to
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the wxWindows mailing list.
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You'll need OS/2 Warp (4.00FP#6), X-Free86/2 (3.3.3 or newer),
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GTK+ (1.2.5 or newer), emx (0.9d fix 1), flex (2.5.4), yacc (1.8),
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korn shell (5.2.13), Autoconf (2.13), GNU file utilities (3.6),
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GNU text utilities (1.3), GNU shell utilites (1.12), m4 (1.4),
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sed (2.05), grep (2.0), Awk (3.0.3), GNU Make (3.76.1).
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Open an OS/2 prompt and switch to the directory above.
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First set some global environment variables we need:
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SET CXXFLAGS=-Zmtd -D__ST_MT_ERRNO__
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SET CFLAGS=-Zmtd -D__ST_MT_ERRNO__
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SET OSTYPE=OS2X
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SET COMSPEC=sh
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Notice you can choose whatever you want, if you don't like OS2X.
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Now, run autoconf in the main directory and in the samples, demos
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and utils subdirectory. This will generate the OS/2 specific
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versions of the configure scripts. Now run
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configure --with-gtk
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as described above.
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If you have pthreads library installed, but have a gtk version
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which does not yet support threading, you need to explicitly
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disable threading by using the option --disable-threads.
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Note that configure assumes your flex will generate files named
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"lexyy.c", not "lex.yy.c". If you have a version which does
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generate "lex.yy.c", you need to manually change the generated
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makefile.
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* Building wxGTK on SGI
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-----------------------
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Using the SGI native compilers, it is recommended that you
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also set CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS before running configure. These
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should be set to :
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CFLAGS="-mips3 -n32"
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CXXFLAGS="-mips3 -n32"
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This is essential if you want to use the resultant binaries
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on any other machine than the one it was compiled on. If you
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have a 64bit machine (Octane) you should also do this to ensure
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you don't accidently build the libraries as 64bit (which is
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untested).
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The SGI native compiler support has only been tested on Irix 6.5.
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* Create your configuration
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Usage:
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./configure options
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If you want to use system's C and C++ compiler,
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set environment variables CC and CCC as
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% setenv CC cc
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% setenv CXX CC
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% ./configure [options]
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to see all the options please use:
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./configure --help
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It is recommended to build wxWindows in another directory (maybe a
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subdirectory of your wxWindows installation) as this allows you to
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have multiple configurations (for example, debug and release or GTK
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and Motif) simultaneously.
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* General options
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-----------------
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Given below are the commands to change the default behaviour,
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i.e. if it says "--disable-threads" it means that threads
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are enabled by default.
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Normally, you won't have to choose a toolkit, because when
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you download wxGTK, it will default to --with-gtk etc. But
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if you use all of our CVS repository you have to choose a
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toolkit. You must do this by running configure with either of:
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--with-gtk Use the GIMP ToolKit (GTK). Default.
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--with-motif Use either Motif or Lesstif
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Configure will look for both.
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The following options handle the kind of library you want to build.
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--disable-threads Compile without thread support.
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--disable-shared Do not create shared libraries, but
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build static libraries instead.
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--enable-monolithic Build wxWindows as single library instead
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of as several smaller libraries (which is
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the default since wxWindows 2.5.0).
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--disable-optimise Do not optimise the code. Can
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sometimes be useful for debugging
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and is required on some architectures
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such as Sun with gcc 2.8.X which
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would otherwise produce segvs.
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--enable-profile Add profiling info to the object
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files. Currently broken, I think.
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--enable-no_rtti Enable compilation without creation of
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C++ RTTI information in object files.
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This will speed-up compilation and reduce
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binary size.
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--enable-no_exceptions Enable compilation without creation of
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C++ exception information in object files.
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This will speed-up compilation and reduce
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binary size. Also fewer crashes during the
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actual compilation...
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--enable-no_deps Enable compilation without creation of
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dependency information.
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--enable-permissive Enable compilation without checking for strict
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ANSI conformance. Useful to prevent the build
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dying with errors as soon as you compile with
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Solaris' ANSI-defying headers.
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--enable-mem_tracing Add built-in memory tracing.
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--enable-dmalloc Use the dmalloc memory debugger.
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Read more at www.letters.com/dmalloc/
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--enable-debug_info Add debug info to object files and
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executables for use with debuggers
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such as gdb (or its many frontends).
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--enable-debug_flag Define __DEBUG__ and __WXDEBUG__ when
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compiling. This enable wxWindows' very
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useful internal debugging tricks (such
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as automatically reporting illegal calls)
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to work. Note that program and library
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must be compiled with the same debug
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options.
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--enable-debug Same as --enable-debug_info and
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--enable-debug_flag together. Unless you have
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some very specific needs, you should use this
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option instead of --enable-debug_info/flag ones
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separately.
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* Feature Options
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When producing an executable that is linked statically with wxGTK
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you'll be surprised at its immense size. This can sometimes be
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drastically reduced by removing features from wxWindows that
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are not used in your program. The most relevant such features
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are
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--with-odbc Enables ODBC code. This is disabled
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by default because iODBC is under the
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L-GPL license which is less liberal than
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wxWindows license.
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--without-libpng Disables PNG image format code.
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--without-libjpeg Disables JPEG image format code.
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--without-libtiff Disables TIFF image format code.
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--without-expat Disable XML classes based on Expat parser.
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--disable-pnm Disables PNM image format code.
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--disable-gif Disables GIF image format code.
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--disable-pcx Disables PCX image format code.
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--disable-iff Disables IFF image format code.
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--disable-resources Disables the use of *.wxr type resources.
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--disable-threads Disables threads. Will also disable sockets.
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--disable-sockets Disables sockets.
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--disable-dnd Disables Drag'n'Drop.
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--disable-clipboard Disables Clipboard.
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--disable-serial Disables object instance serialisation.
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--disable-streams Disables the wxStream classes.
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--disable-file Disables the wxFile class.
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--disable-textfile Disables the wxTextFile class.
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--disable-intl Disables the internationalisation.
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--disable-validators Disables validators.
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--disable-accel Disables accelerators support.
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Apart from disabling certain features you can very often "strip"
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the program of its debugging information resulting in a significant
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reduction in size.
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Please see the output of "./configure --help" for comprehensive list
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of all configurable options.
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* Compiling
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The following must be done in the base directory (e.g. ~/wxGTK
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or ~/wxWin or whatever)
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Now the makefiles are created (by configure) and you can compile
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the library by typing:
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make
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make yourself some coffee, as it will take some time. On an old
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386SX possibly two weeks. During compilation, you'll get a few
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warning messages depending in your compiler.
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If you want to be more selective, you can change into a specific
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directory and type "make" there.
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Then you may install the library and its header files under
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/usr/local/include/wx and /usr/local/lib respectively. You
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have to log in as root (i.e. run "su" and enter the root
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password) and type
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make install
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You can remove any traces of wxWindows by typing
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make uninstall
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If you want to save disk space by removing unnecessary
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object-files:
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make clean
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in the various directories will do the work for you.
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* Creating a new Project
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1) The first way uses the installed libraries and header files
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automatically using wx-config
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g++ myfoo.cpp `wx-config --cxxflags --libs` -o myfoo
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Using this way, a make file for the minimal sample would look
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like this
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CC = gcc
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minimal: minimal.o
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$(CC) -o minimal minimal.o `wx-config --libs`
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minimal.o: minimal.cpp mondrian.xpm
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$(CC) `wx-config --cxxflags` -c minimal.cpp -o minimal.o
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clean:
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rm -f *.o minimal
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This is certain to become the standard way unless we decide
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to stick to tmake.
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If your application uses only some of wxWindows libraries, you can
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specify required libraries when running wx-config. For example,
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`wx-config --libs=html,core` will only output link command to link
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with libraries required by core GUI classes and wxHTML classes. See
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the manual for more information on the libraries.
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2) The other way creates a project within the source code
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directories of wxWindows. For this endeavour, you'll need
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GNU autoconf version 2.14 and add an entry to your Makefile.in
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to the bottom of the configure.in script and run autoconf
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and configure before you can type make.
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----------------------
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In the hope that it will be useful,
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Robert Roebling
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