docs/msw/install.txt

   1
   2 Installing wxWindows 2.0
   3 ------------------------
   4
   5 Unarchiving
   6 -----------
   7
   8 If there is a setup program, run the setup program that comes with the Windows version.
   9 Do not install into a path that contains spaces. The installation program should set the
  10 WXWIN environment variable, which will be activated when your machine is rebooted.
  11
  12 If there is no setup program, it will come as a series of .zip
  13 files:
  14
  15 wx200gen.zip            Generic source code and samples (required)
  16 wx200msw.zip            Windows-specific source code and samples (required)
  17 wx200doc.zip            Documentation source code (not required)
  18 wx200hlp.zip            WinHelp documentation
  19 wx200pdf.zip            Acrobat PDF documentation
  20 wx200htm.zip            HTML documentation
  21 wx200vc.zip             MS VC++ 5.0 project files
  22
  23 Unarchive the required files plus any optional documentation
  24 files into a suitable directory such as c:\wx. Alter your
  25 WXWIN environment variable to point to this directory.
  26
  27 Compilation
  28 -----------
  29
  30 At present, wxWindows compiles with VC++ 4.0/5.0/6.0,
  31 BC++ 4.5/5.0, Gnu-Win32 b19/b20, and Mingw32. It may compile
  32 with 16-bit compilers (BC++ and VC++ 1.5) but this hasn't
  33 been tested lately.
  34
  35 Visual C++ 4.0/5.0/6.0 compilation
  36 ----------------------------------
  37
  38 Using project files:
  39
  40 1. Unarchive wx200vc.zip, the VC++ 5 project makefiles.
  41 2. Open src/wxvc.dsp, set Debug or Release configuration, and
  42    compile. This will produce lib/wxvc.lib or lib/wxvc_debug.lib.
  43 3. Open a sample project file, choose a configuration, and compile.
  44    The project files don't use precompiled headers, to save
  45    space, but you can switch PCH compiling on for greater speed.
  46
  47 Using makefiles:
  48
  49 1. Change directory to wx\src\msw. Type 'nmake -f makefile.nt' to
  50    make the wxWindows core library.
  51 2. Change directory to wx\samples and type 'nmake -f makefile.nt'
  52    to make all the samples. You can also make them individually.
  53
  54 Visual C++ 1.5 compilation
  55 --------------------------
  56
  57 1. Change directory to wx\src\msw. Type 'nmake -f makefile.dos' to
  58    make the wxWindows core library.
  59 2. Change directory to wx\samples and type 'nmake -f makefile.dos'
  60    to make all the samples. You can also make them individually.
  61
  62 NOTE: 16-bit compilation is not recommended (see issues.txt):
  63 many things are broken, including dialog boxes.
  64
  65 Borland C++ 4.5/5.0 compilation
  66 -------------------------------
  67
  68 1. Change directory to wx\src\msw. Type 'make -f makefile.b32' to
  69    make the wxWindows core library.
  70 2. Change directory to wx\samples and type 'make -f makefile.b32'
  71    to make all the samples. You can also make them individually.
  72    NOTE: only a few samples have up-to-date makefiles, e.g.
  73    minimal, docview, mdi. The utils makefile does not yet work.
  74
  75 Watcom C++ 10.6 compilation
  76 ---------------------------
  77
  78 Currently under construction, but so far we have:
  79
  80 1. Change directory to wx\src\msw. Type 'wmake -f makefile.wat' to
  81    make the wxWindows core library.
  82 2. Change directory to wx\samples\minimal and type 'wmake -f makefile.wat'
  83    to make this sample. There are a lot of link errors at this
  84    point, so can anyone help work out what I've done wrong?
  85
  86 Gnu-Win32 b19/b20/Mingw32 compilation
  87 -------------------------------------
  88
  89 wxWindows 2.0 supports Gnu-Win32/Cygwin b19, b20, Mingw32, and Mingw32/EGCS.
  90
  91 Thanks are due to Keith Garry Boyce (garp@opustel.com) and Cygnus for making
  92 it all possible.
  93
  94 From wxWindows 2.0 beta 9, both Gnu-Win32 and Mingw32 (the minimal
  95 distribution of Gnu-Win32) can be used with the same makefiles.
  96
  97 Here are the steps required:
  98
  99 - Retrieve and install the latest beta of Gnu-Win32, or Mingw32, as per the
 100   instructions with either of these packages.
 101
 102 - If using Mingw32 (including the EGCS variant), you need some
 103   extra files to use the wxWindows makefiles. You can find these
 104   files in ports/mingw32 on the ftp site or CD-ROM, as extra.zip.
 105   These should be extracted to the Mingw32 directory.
 106   IMPORTANT: also see mingw32.txt in this directory (docs/msw)
 107   about a fix that has to be applied to a Mingw32 header file.
 108
 109 - Modify the file wx/src/cygnus.bat (or mingw32.bat or mingegcs.bat)
 110   to set up appropriate variables, if necessary mounting drives.
 111   Run it before compiling.
 112
 113 - For Gnu-Win32, make sure there's a \tmp directory on your
 114   Windows drive or bison will crash.
 115
 116 - Edit wx/src/makeg95.env and search for MINGW32. Take note of
 117   the comments for adjusting settings to suit Gnu-Win32 or
 118   Mingw32. Basically, this is just a case of adding the __MINGW32__ symbol
 119   to OPTIONS for Mingw32, or removing it for Cygnus Gnu-Win32.
 120   For Mingw32/EGCS, add both __MINGW32__ and __EGCS__.
 121
 122 - Mingw32 may not support winsock.h, so comment out
 123   socket-related files in src/msw/makefile.g95.
 124
 125 - Use the makefile.g95 files for compiling wxWindows and samples,
 126   e.g.:
 127   > cd c:\wx\src\msw
 128   > make -f makefile.g95
 129   > cd c:\wx\samples\minimal
 130   > make -f makefile.g95
 131
 132 - Use the 'strip' command to reduce executable size.
 133
 134 - With Cygnus Gnu-Win32, you can invoke gdb --nw myfile.exe to
 135   debug an executable. If there are memory leaks, they will be
 136   flagged when the program quits.
 137
 138 - If using GnuWin32 b18, you will need to copy windres.exe
 139   from e.g. the Mingw32 distribution, to a directory in your path.
 140
 141 All targets have 'clean' targets to allow removal of object files
 142 and other intermediate compiler files.
 143
 144 Gotchas:
 145
 146 - libwx.a is 48 MB or more - but much less if compiled with no
 147   debug info (-g0) and level 4 optimization (-O4).
 148 - install.exe doesn't have built-in decompression because lzexpand.lib
 149   isn't available with Gnu-Win32. However, you can use it with external
 150   decompression utilities.
 151 - Doesn't compile src/msw/ole files, so no drag and drop.
 152
 153 References:
 154
 155  - The GNU-WIN32 site is at
 156      http://www.cygnus.com/gnu-win32/
 157  - Mingw32 is available at:
 158      http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~janjaap/mingw32/index.html
 159  - See also http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/gnuwin32.htm
 160
 161 Notes
 162 -----
 163
 164 - Debugging: under Windows 95, debugging output isn't output in
 165   the same way that it is under NT or Windows 3.1. Set
 166   wxUSE_DBWIN32 to 1 if you wish to enable code to output debugging
 167   info to an external debug monitor, such as Andrew Tucker's DBWIN32.
 168   You can download DBWIN32 from:
 169
 170         http://ftp.digital.com/pub/micro/NT/WinSite/programr/dbwin32.zip
 171
 172   and it's also on the wxWindows CD-ROM under Packages.