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Building wxMSW port with Win32 MSys2 backend
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 wxMSW libraries under MSys2 MinGW.
For the MSys2 way please see https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages
Building steps:
A. Install the mingw32 packages needed to build wxMSW 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
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 ${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-zlib
B. Build the wxMSW static library 1. Open MSys2 MinGW Prompt (These steps were tested on MinGW64; but, should work under MinGW32) 2. Use the cd command to change directory to the wxWidgets top folder.
3. Create the "build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-msw-static" folder to build the static libraries
mkdir -p build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-msw-static
4. Configure wxWidgets
Option "--disable-precomp-headers" is NOT needed.
I am doing it to check for compile issues;
And, I think my old 32 bit Windows machine
works best with it disabled.
cd build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-msw-static && \
../configure --with-msw \
--disable-shared \
--disable-precomp-headers \
&& cd ..
5. make the wxMSW static libraries
cd build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-msw-static && make && cd ..
C. Build and run the minimal static sample
1. Clean the minimal sample
cd build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-msw-static/samples/minimal && make clean && cd ../../..
2. Build the minimal sample
cd build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-msw-static/samples/minimal && make && cd ../../..
3. Run the minimal sample
./build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-msw-static/samples/minimal/minimal.exe
D. Clean the static samples
cd build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-msw-static/samples && make clean && cd ../..
E. Build and run the typetest static sample to verify MIME database works
cd build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-msw-static/samples/typetest && make && cd ../../..
./build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-msw-static/samples/typetest/typetest.exe
F. Build and run the drawing static sample
cd build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-msw-static/samples/drawing && make && cd ../../..
cd samples/drawing && ../../build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-msw-static/samples/drawing/drawing.exe && cd ../..
G. Build and run the splash static sample
cd build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-msw-static/samples/splash && make && cd ../../..
cd samples/splash && ../../build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-msw-static/samples/splash/splash.exe && cd ../..
H. Build and run the widgets static sample
cd build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-msw-static/samples/widgets && make && cd ../../..
cd samples/widgets && ../../build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-msw-static/samples/widgets/widgets.exe && cd ../..
I. Build all the rest of the static samples
cd build-${MSYSTEM_CARCH}-msw-static/samples && make && cd ../..