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1 | wxBase README |
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4 | NB: this file applies to wxBase library only. If you are using a GUI version |
| 5 | of wxWindows, please refer to the documentation in the appropriate | |
| 6 | subdirectory (msw, gtk, motif &c). | |
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9 | Welcome to wxBase! |
| 10 | ||
| 11 | 0. Introduction | |
| 12 | --------------- | |
| 13 | ||
| 14 | wxBase is the library providing most of the non-GUI classes of the wxWindows | |
| 15 | cross-platform C++ framework. wxBase has some generic classes such as yet | |
| 16 | another C++ string class, typesafe dynamic arrays, hashes and lists and, more | |
| 17 | excitingly, wxDateTime - a very flexible and powerful class for manipulating | |
| 18 | the dates in the range of 580 million years with up to millisecond precision. | |
| 19 | Another useful class not present in the standard C++ library is wxRegEx which | |
| 20 | allows you to use regular expressions for string matching and replacing. | |
| 21 | ||
| 22 | There are also classes for writing portable programs in C++ painlessly which | |
| 23 | encapsulate things like files (and their names), directories, processes, | |
| 24 | threads, sockets and much more. Some of the other utility classes allow you to | |
| 25 | parse the command line, limit the number of instances of your program | |
| 26 | executing simultaneously (portably!) and so on. | |
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| 2edb0bde | 28 | 1. Requirements and supported platforms |
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29 | -------------------------------------- |
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| 31 | wxBase can be compiled and used under Win32, mostly any modern Unix system | |
| 32 | (probably including Mac OS X but it wasn't tested there), VMS and BeOS (this | |
| 33 | release couldn't be tested under these platforms neither so you might | |
| 34 | encounter some problems but they should be easy to solve - please contact us | |
| 35 | in this case!) | |
| 36 | ||
| 37 | It is written without using any modern C++ features (such as templates, | |
| 38 | exceptions, namespaces) for maximal portability and so you shouldn't have | |
| 39 | problems compiling it with any C++ compiler at all. However, we only provide | |
| 40 | the project files for Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 for Win32 (any contributions | |
| 41 | are welcome!) - but our Unix makefiles will work with any compiler. | |
| 42 | ||
| 43 | 2. Installing under Win32 | |
| 44 | ------------------------- | |
| 45 | ||
| 46 | Please note that wxBase can be compiled in different configurations under | |
| 47 | Win32: as a static or shared library, in debug or release mode and in ANSI | |
| 48 | or Unicode mode for a total of 8 possibilities. | |
| 49 | ||
| 50 | a) Using Visual C++ 6.0 | |
| 51 | ||
| 52 | Simply open the src/wxBase.dsw file in MSDEV and build it. When it is | |
| 53 | done you can also open samples/console/console.dsp project and build it as | |
| 54 | well. | |
| 55 | ||
| 56 | b) Cygwin | |
| 57 | ||
| 58 | Please refer to the Unix section below | |
| 59 | ||
| 60 | c) Other compilers | |
| 61 | ||
| 62 | Unfortunately we don't have the makefiles for any other compilers yet. | |
| 63 | Please contact us if you would like to help us with creating one for the | |
| 64 | compiler you use. | |
| 65 | ||
| 66 | 3. Installing under Unix/BeOS | |
| 67 | ----------------------------- | |
| 68 | ||
| 69 | NB: If you're building wxBase from the wxWindows distribution and not from a | |
| 70 | separate wxBase one you will need to add "--disable-gui" to configure | |
| 71 | arguments below! | |
| 72 | ||
| 73 | Please note that GNU make is required to build wxBase! | |
| 74 | ||
| 75 | The recommended way to build wxBase is: | |
| 76 | ||
| 77 | % cd ..../wxWindows | |
| 78 | % mkdir base-release | |
| 79 | % cd base-release | |
| 80 | % ../configure | |
| 81 | # ignore the error messages about missing samples | |
| 82 | % make | |
| 83 | % make install | |
| 84 | ||
| 85 | You can also do: | |
| 86 | ||
| 87 | % mkdir base-debug | |
| 88 | % cd base-debug | |
| 89 | % ../configure --enable-debug | |
| 90 | % make | |
| 91 | ||
| 92 | To build the sample then cd to samples/console and make there. | |
| 93 | ||
| 94 | 4. Documentation and support | |
| 95 | ---------------------------- | |
| 96 | ||
| 97 | The console sample provided with this distribution tests most (but not all) | |
| 98 | wxBase classes. It doesn't do anything useful per itself but you may want to | |
| 99 | look at its code to see examples of usage of the class you are interested in. | |
| 100 | ||
| 101 | There is no separate documentation for wxBase, please refer to wxWindows | |
| 102 | documentation instead. | |
| 103 | ||
| 104 | Support for wxBase is available from the same places as for wxWindows itself, | |
| 105 | namely: | |
| 106 | ||
| 107 | * Usenet newsgroup comp.soft-sys.wxwindows | |
| 108 | ||
| 109 | * Mailing lists: see http://lists.wxwindows.org/ for more information | |
| 110 | ||
| 111 | * WWW page: http://www.wxwindows.org/ | |
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| 113 | ||
| 114 | Hope you will find wxBase useful! | |
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| 116 | Vadim Zeitlin | |
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| 118 | ||
| 119 | This file is accurate for the version 2.3.2 of wxBase. It was last modified on | |
| 120 | Dec 11, 2001. | |
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