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<h1 class="title">Building wxPython 2.5 for Development and Testing</h1>
<p>This file describes how I build wxWidgets and wxPython while doing
development and testing, and is meant to help other people that want
to do the same thing.  I'll assume that you are using either a CVS
snapshot from <a class="reference" href="http://wxWidgets.org/snapshots/">http://wxWidgets.org/snapshots/</a>, a checkout from CVS, or
one of the released wxPythonSrc-2.5.* tarballs.  I'll also assume that
you know your way around your system, the compiler, etc. and most
importantly, that you know what you are doing!  ;-)</p>
<p>If you want to also install the version of wxPython you build to be in
your site-packages dir and be your default version of wxPython, then a
few additional steps are needed, and you may want to use slightly
different options.  See INSTALL.txt for more details.  If you only use
the instructions in this BUILD.txt file then you will end up with a
separate installation of wxPython and you can switch back and forth
between this and the release version that you may already have
installed.</p>
<p>If you want to make changes to any of the <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">*.i</span></tt> files, (SWIG interface
definition files,) or to regenerate the extension sources or renamer
modules, then you will need an up to date version of SWIG.  Either get
and build the current CVS version, or version 1.3.20, and then apply
the patches in wxPython/SWIG.  See the README.txt in that dir for
details about each patch and also info about those that may already
have been applied to the SWIG sources.  If you install this build of
SWIG to a location that is not on the PATH (so it doesn't interfere
with an existing SWIG install for example) then you can set a setup.py
command-line variable named SWIG to be the full path name of the
executable and the wxPython build will use it.  See below for an
example.</p>
<div class="section" id="building-on-unix-like-systems-e-g-linux-and-os-x">
<h1><a name="building-on-unix-like-systems-e-g-linux-and-os-x">Building on Unix-like Systems (e.g. Linux and OS X)</a></h1>
<p>These platforms are built almost the same way while in development
so I'll combine the descriptions about their build process here.
First we will build wxWidgets and install it to an out of the way
place, then do the same for wxPython.</p>
<ol class="arabic">
<li><p class="first">Create a build directory in the main wxWidgets dir, and configure
wxWidgets.  If you want to have multiple builds with different
configure options, just use different subdirectories.  I normally
put the configure command in a script named &quot;.configure&quot; in each
build dir so I can easily blow away everything in the build dir and
rerun the script without having to remember the options I used
before:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
mkdir bld
cd bld
../configure --prefix=/opt/wx/2.5 \
             --with-gtk \
             --with-opengl \
             --disable-monolithic \
             --enable-debug \
             --enable-geometry \
             --enable-sound --with-sdl \
             --enable-display \
</pre>
<p>On OS X of course you'll want to use --with-mac instead of
--with-gtk.  For GTK2 and unicode add:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
--enable-gtk2 \
--enable-unicode \
</pre>
<p>Notice that I used a prefix of /opt/wx/2.5.  You can use whatever
path you want, such as a path in your HOME dir or even one of the
standard prefix paths such as /usr or /usr/local if you like, but
using /opt this way lets me easily have multiple versions and ports
of wxWidgets &quot;installed&quot; and makes it easy to switch between them,
without impacting any versions of wxWidgets that may have been
installed via an RPM or whatever.  For the rest of the steps below
be sure to also substitute &quot;/opt/wx/2.5&quot; with whatever prefix you
choose for your build.</p>
<p>If you want to use the image and zlib libraries included with
wxWidgets instead of those already installed on your system, (for
example, to reduce dependencies on 3rd party libraries) then you
can add these flags to the configure command:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
--with-libjpeg=builtin \
--with-libpng=builtin \
--with-libtiff=builtin \
--with-zlib=builtin \
</pre>
</li>
<li><p class="first">To build and install wxWidgets you could just use the &quot;make&quot;
command but there are other libraries besides the main wxWidgets
libs that also need to be built so again I make a script to do it
all for me so I don't forget anything.  This time it is called
&quot;.make&quot; (I use the leading &quot;.  so when I do <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">rm</span> <span class="pre">-r</span> <span class="pre">*</span></tt> in my build
dir I don't lose my scripts too.)  This is what it looks like:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
make $* \
    &amp;&amp; make -C contrib/src/gizmos $* \
    &amp;&amp; make -C contrib/src/ogl CXXFLAGS=&quot;-DwxUSE_DEPRECATED=0&quot; $* \
    &amp;&amp; make -C contrib/src/stc $* \
    &amp;&amp; make -C contrib/src/xrc $* 
</pre>
<p>So you just use .make as if it where make, but don't forget to set
the execute bit on .make first!:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
.make
.make install
</pre>
<p>When it's done you should have an installed set of files under
/opt/wx/2.5 containing just wxWidgets.  Now to use this version of
wxWidgets you just need to add /opt/wx/2.5/bin to the PATH and set
LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH on OS X) to /opt/wx/2.5/lib.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">I also have a script to help me build wxPython and it is checked in
to the CVS as wxWidgets/wxPython/b, but probably don't want to use
it as it's very cryptic and expects that you want to run SWIG, so
if you don't have the latest patched up version of SWIG then you'll
probably get stuck.  So I'll just give the raw commands instead.</p>
<p>We're not going to install the development version of wxPython with
these commands, so it won't impact your already installed version
of the latest release.  You'll be able test with this version when
you want to, and use the installed release version the rest of the
time.  If do want to install the development verison please read
INSTALL.txt.</p>
<p>If you have more than one version of Python on your system then be
sure to use the version of Python that you want to use when running
wxPython programs to run the setup.py commands below.  I'll be
using python2.3.</p>
<p>Make sure that the first wx-config found on the PATH is the one you
installed above, and then change to the wxWidgets/wxPython dir and
run the this command:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
cd wxPython
python2.3 setup.py build_ext --inplace --debug
</pre>
<p>If your new wx-config script is not on the PATH, or there is some
other version of it found first, then you can add this to the
command line to ensure your new one is used instead:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
WX_CONFIG=/opt/wx/2.5/bin/wx-config
</pre>
<p>If you are building with GTK2 then add the following flags to the
command line:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
WXPORT=gtk2 UNICODE=1
</pre>
<p>If you are wanting to have the source files regenerated with swig,
then you need to turn on the USE_SWIG flag and optionally tell it
where to find the new swig executable, so add these flags:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
USE_SWIG=1 SWIG=/opt/swig/bin/swig
</pre>
<p>If you get errors about wxGLCanvas or being unable to find libGLU
or something like that then you can add BUILD_GLCANVAS=0 to the
setup.py command line to disable the building of the glcanvas
module.</p>
<p>When the setup.py command is done you should have fully populated
wxPython and wx packages locally in wxWidgets/wxPython/wxPython and
.../wx, with all the extension modules (<tt class="literal"><span class="pre">*.so</span></tt> files) located in the
wx package.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">To run code with the development verison of wxPython, just set the
PYTHONPATH to the wxPython dir in the CVS tree.  For example:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
export LD_LIBRARY=/opt/wx/2.5/lib
export PYTHONPATH=/myprojects/wxWidgets/wxPython
cd /myprojects/wxWidgets/wxPython/demo
python2.3 demo.py
</pre>
<p>OS X NOTE: You need to use &quot;pythonw&quot; on the command line to run
wxPython applications.  This version of the Python executable is
part of the Python Framework and is allowed to interact with the
display.  You can also double click on a .py or a .pyw file from
the finder (assuming that PythonLauncher is still associated with
these file extensions) and it will launch the Framework version of
Python for you.  For information about creating Applicaiton Bundles
of your wxPython apps please see the wiki and the mail lists.</p>
<p>SOLARIS NOTE: If you get unresolved symbol errors when importing
wxPython and you are running on Solaris and building with gcc, then
you may be able to work around the problem by uncommenting a bit of
code in setup.py and building again.  Look for 'SunOS' in setup.py
and uncomment the block containing it.  The problem is that Sun's ld
does not automatically add libgcc to the link step.</p>
</li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="section" id="building-on-windows">
<h1><a name="building-on-windows">Building on Windows</a></h1>
<p>The Windows builds currently require the use of Microsoft Visual C++.
Theoretically, other compilers (such as mingw32 or the Borland
compilers) can also be used but I've never done the work to make that
happen.  If you want to try that then first you'll want to find out if
there are any tricks that have to be done to make Python extension
modules using that compiler, and then make a few changes to setup.py
to accomodate that.  (And send the patches to me.)  If you plan on
using VisualStudio.Net (a.k.a. MSVC 7.1) keep in mind that you'll also
have to build Python and any other extension modules that you use with
that compiler because a different version of the C runtime likbrary is
used.  The Python executable that comes from PythonLabs and the
wxPython extensions that I distribute are built with MSVC 6 with all
the Service Packs applied.</p>
<p>If you want to build a debugable version of wxWidgets and wxPython you
will need to have also built a debug version of Python and any other
extension modules you need to use.  You can tell if you have them
already if there is a _d in the file names, for example python_d.exe
or python23_d.dll.  If you don't need to trace through the C/C++ parts
of the code with the debugger then building the normal (or hybrid)
version is fine, and you can use the regular python executables with
it.</p>
<p>Just like the unix versions I also use some scripts to help me build
wxWidgets, but I use some non-standard stuff to do it.  So if you want
to use them too you'll need to get a copy or 4DOS or 4NT from
<a class="reference" href="http://www.jpsoft.com/">http://www.jpsoft.com/</a> and also a copy of unix-like cat and sed
programs.  You can also do by hand what my scripts are doing, but
there are a lof steps involved and I won't be going into details
here.  There is a copy of my build scripts in wxWidgetswxPythondistribmsw</p>
<ol class="arabic">
<li><p class="first">Set an environment variable to the root of the wxWidgets source
tree:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
set WXWIN=e:\projects\wxWidgets
</pre>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Copy setup0.h to setup.h</p>
<blockquote>
<p>cd %WXWIN%includewxmsw
copy setup0.h setup.h</p>
</blockquote>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Edit %WXWIN%includewxmswsetup.h and change a few settings.
Some of them are changed by my build scripts depending on the type
of build (debug/hybrid, unicode/ansi). I change a few of the other
defaults to have these values:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY    0
wxUSE_DEBUG_CONTEXT            1
wxUSE_MEMORY_TRACING           1
wxUSE_DIALUP_MANAGER           0
wxUSE_GLCANVAS                 1
wxUSE_POSTSCRIPT               1
wxUSE_AFM_FOR_POSTSCRIPT       0
wxUSE_DISPLAY                  1
</pre>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Make sure that %WXWIN%libvc_dll directory is on the PATH.  The
wxWidgets DLLs will end up there as part of the build and so you'll
need it on the PATH for them to be found at runtime.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Change to the %WXWIN%buildmsw directory and copy my build scripts
there.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Use the .make.btm command to build wxWidgets.  It needs one
command-line parameter which controls what kind of build(s) to do.
Use one of the following:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
debug          Build debug version
hybrid         Build hybrid version
both           Both debug and hybrid
debug-uni      Build a debug unicode library
hybrid-uni     Hybrid unicode (see the pattern yet? ;-)
both-uni       and finally both unicode libraries
</pre>
<p>For example:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
     .make hybrid

You can also pass additional command line parameters as needed and
they will all be passed on to the nmake commands, for example to
clean up the build::

     .make hybrid clean
</pre>
</li>
<li><p class="first">When that is done it will have built the main wxWidgets DLLs and
also some of the contribs DLLs.  There should be a ton of DLLs in
%WXDIR%bin and lots of lib files and other stuff in
%WXDIR%libvc_dll.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Building wxPython on Windows is very similar to doing it for the
unix systems.  We're not going to install the development version
of wxPython with these commands, so it won't impact your already
installed version of the latest release.  You'll be able to test
with this version when you want to, and use the installed release
version the rest of the time.  If you ever do want to install the
development verison please refer to INSTALL.txt.</p>
<p>Change to the wxWidgetswxPython dir and run the this command,
makeing sure that you use the version of python that you want to
build for (if you have more than one on your system):</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
cd %WXWIN%\wxPython
python setup.py build_ext --inplace 
</pre>
<p>If you are wanting to have the source files regenerated with swig,
then you need to turn on the USE_SWIG flag and optionally tell it
where to find the new swig executable, so add these flags:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
USE_SWIG=1 SWIG=e:\projects\SWIG-cvs\swig.exe
</pre>
<p>If you built a Unicode version of wxWidgets and want to also build
the Unicode version of wxPython then add this flag:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
UNICODE=1
</pre>
<p>If you have a debug version of Python and wxWidgets and want to
build a debug version of wxPython too, add the --debug flag to the
command line.  You should then end up with a set of <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">*_d.pyd</span></tt>
files in the wx package and you'll have to run <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">python_d.exe</span></tt> to
use them.  The debug and hybrid(release) versions can coexist.</p>
<p>When the setup.py command is done you should have fully populated
wxPython and wx packages locally in wxWidgets/wxPython/wxPython and
wxWidgets/wxPython/wx, with all the extension modules (<tt class="literal"><span class="pre">*.pyd</span></tt>
files) located in the wx package.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">To run code with the development verison of wxPython, just set the
PYTHONPATH to the wxPython dir in the CVS tree.  For example:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
set PYTHONPATH=e:\projects\wxWidgets\wxPython
cd e:\projects\wxWidgets\wxPython
python demo.py
</pre>
</li>
</ol>
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	11	<div class="document" id="building-wxpython-2-5-for-development-and-testing">
	12	<h1 class="title">Building wxPython 2.5 for Development and Testing</h1>
fc33e5e1	13	<p>This file describes how I build wxWidgets and wxPython while doing
8eda5e35 RD	14	development and testing, and is meant to help other people that want
8eda5e35 RD	15	to do the same thing. I'll assume that you are using either a CVS
fc33e5e1	16	snapshot from <a class="reference" href="http://wxWidgets.org/snapshots/">http://wxWidgets.org/snapshots/</a>, a checkout from CVS, or
8eda5e35	17	one of the released wxPythonSrc-2.5.* tarballs. I'll also assume that
9c329f86 RD	18	you know your way around your system, the compiler, etc. and most
9c329f86 RD	19	importantly, that you know what you are doing! ;-)</p>
8eda5e35 RD	20	<p>If you want to also install the version of wxPython you build to be in
	21	your site-packages dir and be your default version of wxPython, then a
	22	few additional steps are needed, and you may want to use slightly
	23	different options. See INSTALL.txt for more details. If you only use
	24	the instructions in this BUILD.txt file then you will end up with a
	25	separate installation of wxPython and you can switch back and forth
	26	between this and the release version that you may already have
	27	installed.</p>
	28	<p>If you want to make changes to any of the <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">*.i</span></tt> files, (SWIG interface
	29	definition files,) or to regenerate the extension sources or renamer
	30	modules, then you will need an up to date version of SWIG. Either get
	31	and build the current CVS version, or version 1.3.20, and then apply
	32	the patches in wxPython/SWIG. See the README.txt in that dir for
	33	details about each patch and also info about those that may already
	34	have been applied to the SWIG sources. If you install this build of
	35	SWIG to a location that is not on the PATH (so it doesn't interfere
	36	with an existing SWIG install for example) then you can set a setup.py
	37	command-line variable named SWIG to be the full path name of the
	38	executable and the wxPython build will use it. See below for an
	39	example.</p>
	40	<div class="section" id="building-on-unix-like-systems-e-g-linux-and-os-x">
	41	<h1><a name="building-on-unix-like-systems-e-g-linux-and-os-x">Building on Unix-like Systems (e.g. Linux and OS X)</a></h1>
	42	<p>These platforms are built almost the same way while in development
	43	so I'll combine the descriptions about their build process here.
fc33e5e1	44	First we will build wxWidgets and install it to an out of the way
8eda5e35 RD	45	place, then do the same for wxPython.</p>
8eda5e35 RD	46	<ol class="arabic">
fc33e5e1 RD	47	<li><p class="first">Create a build directory in the main wxWidgets dir, and configure
fc33e5e1 RD	48	wxWidgets. If you want to have multiple builds with different
8eda5e35 RD	49	configure options, just use different subdirectories. I normally
	50	put the configure command in a script named ".configure" in each
	51	build dir so I can easily blow away everything in the build dir and
	52	rerun the script without having to remember the options I used
	53	before:</p>
	54	<pre class="literal-block">
	55	mkdir bld
	56	cd bld
	57	../configure --prefix=/opt/wx/2.5 \
	58	--with-gtk \
	59	--with-opengl \
	60	--disable-monolithic \
	61	--enable-debug \
	62	--enable-geometry \
fc33e5e1 RD	63	--enable-sound --with-sdl \
fc33e5e1 RD	64	--enable-display \
8eda5e35 RD	65	</pre>
	66	<p>On OS X of course you'll want to use --with-mac instead of
	67	--with-gtk. For GTK2 and unicode add:</p>
fc33e5e1 RD	68	<pre class="literal-block">
	69	--enable-gtk2 \
	70	--enable-unicode \
	71	</pre>
8eda5e35 RD	72	<p>Notice that I used a prefix of /opt/wx/2.5. You can use whatever
	73	path you want, such as a path in your HOME dir or even one of the
	74	standard prefix paths such as /usr or /usr/local if you like, but
	75	using /opt this way lets me easily have multiple versions and ports
fc33e5e1 RD	76	of wxWidgets "installed" and makes it easy to switch between them,
fc33e5e1 RD	77	without impacting any versions of wxWidgets that may have been
8eda5e35 RD	78	installed via an RPM or whatever. For the rest of the steps below
	79	be sure to also substitute "/opt/wx/2.5" with whatever prefix you
	80	choose for your build.</p>
	81	<p>If you want to use the image and zlib libraries included with
fc33e5e1	82	wxWidgets instead of those already installed on your system, (for
8eda5e35 RD	83	example, to reduce dependencies on 3rd party libraries) then you
	84	can add these flags to the configure command:</p>
	85	<pre class="literal-block">
	86	--with-libjpeg=builtin \
	87	--with-libpng=builtin \
	88	--with-libtiff=builtin \
	89	--with-zlib=builtin \
	90	</pre>
	91	</li>
fc33e5e1 RD	92	<li><p class="first">To build and install wxWidgets you could just use the "make"
fc33e5e1 RD	93	command but there are other libraries besides the main wxWidgets
8eda5e35 RD	94	libs that also need to be built so again I make a script to do it
	95	all for me so I don't forget anything. This time it is called
	96	".make" (I use the leading ". so when I do <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">rm</span> <span class="pre">-r</span> <span class="pre">*</span></tt> in my build
	97	dir I don't lose my scripts too.) This is what it looks like:</p>
	98	<pre class="literal-block">
	99	make $* \
	100	&& make -C contrib/src/gizmos $* \
	101	&& make -C contrib/src/ogl CXXFLAGS="-DwxUSE_DEPRECATED=0" $* \
	102	&& make -C contrib/src/stc $* \
	103	&& make -C contrib/src/xrc $*
	104	</pre>
	105	<p>So you just use .make as if it where make, but don't forget to set
	106	the execute bit on .make first!:</p>
	107	<pre class="literal-block">
	108	.make
	109	.make install
	110	</pre>
	111	<p>When it's done you should have an installed set of files under
fc33e5e1 RD	112	/opt/wx/2.5 containing just wxWidgets. Now to use this version of
fc33e5e1 RD	113	wxWidgets you just need to add /opt/wx/2.5/bin to the PATH and set
8eda5e35 RD	114	LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH on OS X) to /opt/wx/2.5/lib.</p>
	115	</li>
	116	<li><p class="first">I also have a script to help me build wxPython and it is checked in
fc33e5e1	117	to the CVS as wxWidgets/wxPython/b, but probably don't want to use
8eda5e35 RD	118	it as it's very cryptic and expects that you want to run SWIG, so
	119	if you don't have the latest patched up version of SWIG then you'll
	120	probably get stuck. So I'll just give the raw commands instead.</p>
	121	<p>We're not going to install the development version of wxPython with
	122	these commands, so it won't impact your already installed version
	123	of the latest release. You'll be able test with this version when
	124	you want to, and use the installed release version the rest of the
	125	time. If do want to install the development verison please read
	126	INSTALL.txt.</p>
	127	<p>If you have more than one version of Python on your system then be
	128	sure to use the version of Python that you want to use when running
	129	wxPython programs to run the setup.py commands below. I'll be
	130	using python2.3.</p>
	131	<p>Make sure that the first wx-config found on the PATH is the one you
fc33e5e1	132	installed above, and then change to the wxWidgets/wxPython dir and
8eda5e35 RD	133	run the this command:</p>
	134	<pre class="literal-block">
	135	cd wxPython
	136	python2.3 setup.py build_ext --inplace --debug
	137	</pre>
	138	<p>If your new wx-config script is not on the PATH, or there is some
	139	other version of it found first, then you can add this to the
	140	command line to ensure your new one is used instead:</p>
	141	<pre class="literal-block">
	142	WX_CONFIG=/opt/wx/2.5/bin/wx-config
	143	</pre>
	144	<p>If you are building with GTK2 then add the following flags to the
	145	command line:</p>
	146	<pre class="literal-block">
	147	WXPORT=gtk2 UNICODE=1
	148	</pre>
	149	<p>If you are wanting to have the source files regenerated with swig,
	150	then you need to turn on the USE_SWIG flag and optionally tell it
	151	where to find the new swig executable, so add these flags:</p>
	152	<pre class="literal-block">
	153	USE_SWIG=1 SWIG=/opt/swig/bin/swig
	154	</pre>
	155	<p>If you get errors about wxGLCanvas or being unable to find libGLU
	156	or something like that then you can add BUILD_GLCANVAS=0 to the
	157	setup.py command line to disable the building of the glcanvas
	158	module.</p>
	159	<p>When the setup.py command is done you should have fully populated
fc33e5e1	160	wxPython and wx packages locally in wxWidgets/wxPython/wxPython and
8eda5e35 RD	161	.../wx, with all the extension modules (<tt class="literal"><span class="pre">*.so</span></tt> files) located in the
	162	wx package.</p>
	163	</li>
	164	<li><p class="first">To run code with the development verison of wxPython, just set the
	165	PYTHONPATH to the wxPython dir in the CVS tree. For example:</p>
	166	<pre class="literal-block">
	167	export LD_LIBRARY=/opt/wx/2.5/lib
fc33e5e1 RD	168	export PYTHONPATH=/myprojects/wxWidgets/wxPython
fc33e5e1 RD	169	cd /myprojects/wxWidgets/wxPython/demo
8eda5e35 RD	170	python2.3 demo.py
	171	</pre>
	172	<p>OS X NOTE: You need to use "pythonw" on the command line to run
	173	wxPython applications. This version of the Python executable is
	174	part of the Python Framework and is allowed to interact with the
9c329f86	175	display. You can also double click on a .py or a .pyw file from
8eda5e35 RD	176	the finder (assuming that PythonLauncher is still associated with
	177	these file extensions) and it will launch the Framework version of
	178	Python for you. For information about creating Applicaiton Bundles
	179	of your wxPython apps please see the wiki and the mail lists.</p>
	180	<p>SOLARIS NOTE: If you get unresolved symbol errors when importing
	181	wxPython and you are running on Solaris and building with gcc, then
	182	you may be able to work around the problem by uncommenting a bit of
	183	code in setup.py and building again. Look for 'SunOS' in setup.py
	184	and uncomment the block containing it. The problem is that Sun's ld
	185	does not automatically add libgcc to the link step.</p>
	186	</li>
	187	</ol>
	188	</div>
	189	<div class="section" id="building-on-windows">
	190	<h1><a name="building-on-windows">Building on Windows</a></h1>
	191	<p>The Windows builds currently require the use of Microsoft Visual C++.
	192	Theoretically, other compilers (such as mingw32 or the Borland
	193	compilers) can also be used but I've never done the work to make that
	194	happen. If you want to try that then first you'll want to find out if
	195	there are any tricks that have to be done to make Python extension
	196	modules using that compiler, and then make a few changes to setup.py
	197	to accomodate that. (And send the patches to me.) If you plan on
	198	using VisualStudio.Net (a.k.a. MSVC 7.1) keep in mind that you'll also
	199	have to build Python and any other extension modules that you use with
	200	that compiler because a different version of the C runtime likbrary is
	201	used. The Python executable that comes from PythonLabs and the
	202	wxPython extensions that I distribute are built with MSVC 6 with all
	203	the Service Packs applied.</p>
fc33e5e1	204	<p>If you want to build a debugable version of wxWidgets and wxPython you
8eda5e35 RD	205	will need to have also built a debug version of Python and any other
	206	extension modules you need to use. You can tell if you have them
	207	already if there is a _d in the file names, for example python_d.exe
	208	or python23_d.dll. If you don't need to trace through the C/C++ parts
	209	of the code with the debugger then building the normal (or hybrid)
	210	version is fine, and you can use the regular python executables with
	211	it.</p>
	212	<p>Just like the unix versions I also use some scripts to help me build
fc33e5e1	213	wxWidgets, but I use some non-standard stuff to do it. So if you want
8eda5e35 RD	214	to use them too you'll need to get a copy or 4DOS or 4NT from
	215	<a class="reference" href="http://www.jpsoft.com/">http://www.jpsoft.com/</a> and also a copy of unix-like cat and sed
	216	programs. You can also do by hand what my scripts are doing, but
	217	there are a lof steps involved and I won't be going into details
fc33e5e1	218	here. There is a copy of my build scripts in wxWidgetswxPythondistribmsw</p>
8eda5e35	219	<ol class="arabic">
fc33e5e1	220	<li><p class="first">Set an environment variable to the root of the wxWidgets source
8eda5e35 RD	221	tree:</p>
8eda5e35 RD	222	<pre class="literal-block">
fc33e5e1	223	set WXWIN=e:\projects\wxWidgets
8eda5e35 RD	224	</pre>
	225	</li>
	226	<li><p class="first">Copy setup0.h to setup.h</p>
	227	<blockquote>
	228	<p>cd %WXWIN%includewxmsw
	229	copy setup0.h setup.h</p>
	230	</blockquote>
	231	</li>
	232	<li><p class="first">Edit %WXWIN%includewxmswsetup.h and change a few settings.
	233	Some of them are changed by my build scripts depending on the type
	234	of build (debug/hybrid, unicode/ansi). I change a few of the other
	235	defaults to have these values:</p>
	236	<pre class="literal-block">
	237	wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY 0
	238	wxUSE_DEBUG_CONTEXT 1
	239	wxUSE_MEMORY_TRACING 1
	240	wxUSE_DIALUP_MANAGER 0
	241	wxUSE_GLCANVAS 1
	242	wxUSE_POSTSCRIPT 1
	243	wxUSE_AFM_FOR_POSTSCRIPT 0
fc33e5e1	244	wxUSE_DISPLAY 1
8eda5e35 RD	245	</pre>
8eda5e35 RD	246	</li>
90805926 RD	247	<li><p class="first">Make sure that %WXWIN%libvc_dll directory is on the PATH. The
	248	wxWidgets DLLs will end up there as part of the build and so you'll
	249	need it on the PATH for them to be found at runtime.</p>
8eda5e35 RD	250	</li>
	251	<li><p class="first">Change to the %WXWIN%buildmsw directory and copy my build scripts
	252	there.</p>
	253	</li>
fc33e5e1	254	<li><p class="first">Use the .make.btm command to build wxWidgets. It needs one
8eda5e35 RD	255	command-line parameter which controls what kind of build(s) to do.
	256	Use one of the following:</p>
	257	<pre class="literal-block">
	258	debug Build debug version
	259	hybrid Build hybrid version
	260	both Both debug and hybrid
	261	debug-uni Build a debug unicode library
	262	hybrid-uni Hybrid unicode (see the pattern yet? ;-)
	263	both-uni and finally both unicode libraries
	264	</pre>
	265	<p>For example:</p>
	266	<pre class="literal-block">
	267	.make hybrid
	268
	269	You can also pass additional command line parameters as needed and
	270	they will all be passed on to the nmake commands, for example to
	271	clean up the build::
	272
	273	.make hybrid clean
	274	</pre>
	275	</li>
fc33e5e1	276	<li><p class="first">When that is done it will have built the main wxWidgets DLLs and
8eda5e35 RD	277	also some of the contribs DLLs. There should be a ton of DLLs in
	278	%WXDIR%bin and lots of lib files and other stuff in
	279	%WXDIR%libvc_dll.</p>
	280	</li>
	281	<li><p class="first">Building wxPython on Windows is very similar to doing it for the
	282	unix systems. We're not going to install the development version
	283	of wxPython with these commands, so it won't impact your already
	284	installed version of the latest release. You'll be able to test
	285	with this version when you want to, and use the installed release
	286	version the rest of the time. If you ever do want to install the
	287	development verison please refer to INSTALL.txt.</p>
fc33e5e1	288	<p>Change to the wxWidgetswxPython dir and run the this command,
8eda5e35 RD	289	makeing sure that you use the version of python that you want to
	290	build for (if you have more than one on your system):</p>
	291	<pre class="literal-block">
	292	cd %WXWIN%\wxPython
	293	python setup.py build_ext --inplace
	294	</pre>
	295	<p>If you are wanting to have the source files regenerated with swig,
	296	then you need to turn on the USE_SWIG flag and optionally tell it
	297	where to find the new swig executable, so add these flags:</p>
	298	<pre class="literal-block">
	299	USE_SWIG=1 SWIG=e:\projects\SWIG-cvs\swig.exe
	300	</pre>
fc33e5e1	301	<p>If you built a Unicode version of wxWidgets and want to also build
8eda5e35 RD	302	the Unicode version of wxPython then add this flag:</p>
	303	<pre class="literal-block">
	304	UNICODE=1
	305	</pre>
fc33e5e1	306	<p>If you have a debug version of Python and wxWidgets and want to
8eda5e35 RD	307	build a debug version of wxPython too, add the --debug flag to the
	308	command line. You should then end up with a set of <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">*_d.pyd</span></tt>
	309	files in the wx package and you'll have to run <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">python_d.exe</span></tt> to
	310	use them. The debug and hybrid(release) versions can coexist.</p>
	311	<p>When the setup.py command is done you should have fully populated
fc33e5e1 RD	312	wxPython and wx packages locally in wxWidgets/wxPython/wxPython and
fc33e5e1 RD	313	wxWidgets/wxPython/wx, with all the extension modules (<tt class="literal"><span class="pre">*.pyd</span></tt>
8eda5e35 RD	314	files) located in the wx package.</p>
	315	</li>
	316	<li><p class="first">To run code with the development verison of wxPython, just set the
	317	PYTHONPATH to the wxPython dir in the CVS tree. For example:</p>
	318	<pre class="literal-block">
fc33e5e1 RD	319	set PYTHONPATH=e:\projects\wxWidgets\wxPython
fc33e5e1 RD	320	cd e:\projects\wxWidgets\wxPython
8eda5e35 RD	321	python demo.py
	322	</pre>
	323	</li>
	324	</ol>
	325	</div>
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