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	11	<div class="document" id="installing-wxpython-2-5-from-source">
	12	<h1 class="title">Installing wxPython 2.5 from Source</h1>
	13	<p>This document will describe the few differences and additions to the
	14	content in the <a class="reference" href="BUILD.html">BUILD</a> document for installing wxPython built from
	15	source. Please follow the intstructions both in this file and in
	16	<a class="reference" href="BUILD.html">BUILD</a> to perform this task. Where there is overlap the items
	17	described here will take precedence for doing installations.</p>
	18	<div class="section" id="installing-on-unix-like-systems-not-os-x">
	19	<h1><a name="installing-on-unix-like-systems-not-os-x">Installing on Unix-like Systems (not OS X)</a></h1>
	20	<ol class="arabic">
	21	<li><p class="first">When building wxWidgets you need to decide if you want it to be a
	22	private copy only accessed by wxPython, or if you would like it to
	23	be installed in a stanard location such as /usr. Or perhaps you
	24	already have a version of wxWidgets installed on your system (such
	25	as from an RPM) and you want wxPython to use that version too. If
	26	so then you'll want to ensure that the flags and options used to
	27	build the installed version are compatible with wxPython.</p>
	28	</li>
	29	<li><p class="first">If you do decide to build and install your own wxWidgets then there
	30	are a few tweaks to the configure flags described in BUILD.txt that
	31	you will probably want to make. Instead of --enable-debug use
	32	this configure flag:</p>
	33	<pre class="literal-block">
	34	--enable-optimize \
	35	</pre>
	36	<p>Normally I also use the following flag in order to have wxWidgets
	37	runtime assertions turned into Python exceptions where possible.
	38	It does add extra code to the build but probably not enough to
	39	worry about it. However if you want to get as lean a build as
	40	possible you can leave it out, but if your code does something bad
	41	then instead of exceptions you'll likely get a crash:</p>
	42	<pre class="literal-block">
	43	--enable-debug_flag \
	44	</pre>
	45	<p>If you are building a private copy of wxWidgets (IOW, not installed
	46	in a standard library location) then it can be kind of a hassle to
	47	always have to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable so wxPython can
	48	find the wxWidgets shared libraries. You can hard code the library
	49	path into the binaries by using the rpath option when configuring
	50	wxWidgets. For example:</p>
	51	<pre class="literal-block">
	52	--enable-rpath=/opt/wx/2.5/lib \
	53	</pre>
	54	<p>SOLARIS NOTE: The --enable-rpath option may cause problems when
	55	using wxGTK on Solaris when compiling wxPython as described below.
	56	The woraround is to not use --enable-rpath flag for configure, but
	57	in that case all wxPython applications <em>must</em> have the
	58	LD_LIBRARY_PATH set to include $WXPREF/lib, or you can use the
	59	'crle' program to modify the runtime linking environment. If this
	60	is the only installation of wxGTK on the system then you can use a
	61	system library path for prefix and not have to worry about it at
	62	all.</p>
	63	</li>
	64	<li><p class="first">Build and install wxGTK as described in BUILD.txt.</p>
	65	</li>
	66	<li><p class="first">In addition to building wxPython as described in BUILD.txt, you can
	67	install it to Python's site-packages dir, as well as some scripts
	68	into the same bin dir used by Python by using this command:</p>
	69	<pre class="literal-block">
	70	python2.3 setup.py install
	71	</pre>
	72	<p>If you would like to install to some place besides the prefix where
	73	Python is installed, (such as to your home directory) then you can
	74	add "--root=<path>" after the "install" command. This will use
	75	<path> as the prefix and will install scripts to a bin subdir and
	76	the wxPython packages to a lib subdir. To use wxPython like this
	77	you'll need to ensure that the directory containing wxPython is
	78	contained in the PYTHONPATH environment variable.</p>
	79	</li>
	80	</ol>
	81	</div>
	82	<div class="section" id="installing-on-os-x">
	83	<h1><a name="installing-on-os-x">Installing on OS X</a></h1>
	84	<p>Installing wxPython on OS X is nearly the same as the Unix
	85	instructions above, except for a few small, but important details:</p>
	86	<ol class="arabic simple">
	87	<li>The --enable-rpath configure option is not needed since the path to
	88	the wxWidgets dylibs will automatically be encoded into the
	89	extension modules when they are built. If you end up moving the
	90	wxWidgets dynlibs to some other location (such as inside the .app
	91	bundle of your applicaiton for distribution to other users,) then
	92	you will need to set DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH to this location so the
	93	dylibs can be found at runtime.</li>
	94	<li>Depending on the version of OS X Python may be installed in
	95	different locations. On 10.2 (Jaguar) you need to download and
	96	install MacPython-OSX-2.3 from <a class="reference" href="http://www.python.org/">http://www.python.org/</a> and the
	97	Python Framework will then be installed in /Library/Frameworks. On
	98	10.3 (Panther) Apple supplies the Python Framework as part of the
	99	OS install, but it will be located in /System/Library/Frameworks
	100	instead. However, on Panther the site-pacakges dir is sym-linked
	101	to /Library/Python/2.3 so the wxPython pacakges will end up there,
	102	although they will still be visible from site-packages. If you are
	103	building distributions of wxPython to be installed on other
	104	machines be careful to install to /Library/Python/2.3. To
	105	complicate things further, the Jaguar version, or a custom build
	106	you do yourself will end up in /Library/Frameworks even on
	107	Panther...</li>
	108	<li>You need to use pythonw at the command line or PythonLauncher app
	109	to run wxPython apps, otherwise the app will not be able to fully
	110	use the GUI display.</li>
	111	</ol>
	112	</div>
	113	<div class="section" id="installing-on-windows">
	114	<h1><a name="installing-on-windows">Installing on Windows</a></h1>
	115	<ol class="arabic">
	116	<li><p class="first">Build wxWidgets and wxPython as described in BUILD.txt. If you
	117	would rather have a version without the code that turns runtime
	118	assertions into Python exceptions, then use "release" instead of
	119	"hybrid" when building wxWidgets and add "FINAL=1" to the setup.py
	120	command line.</p>
	121	</li>
	122	<li><p class="first">Install wxPython like this:</p>
	123	<pre class="literal-block">
	124	python setup.py install
	125	</pre>
	126	</li>
	127	<li><p class="first">Copy the wxWidgets DLLs to the wx package directory so they can be
	128	found at runtime by the extension modules without requiring that
	129	they be installed on the PATH:</p>
	130	<pre class="literal-block">
	131	copy %WXWIN%\lib\vc_dll\wxh_.dll c:\Python23\Lib\site-pacakges\wx
	132	</pre>
	133	</li>
	134	</ol>
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