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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>
  13 <p>This file describes how I build wxWidgets and wxPython while doing
  14 development and testing, and is meant to help other people that want
  15 to do the same thing.  I'll assume that you are using either a CVS
  16 snapshot from <a class="reference" href="http://wxWidgets.org/snapshots/">http://wxWidgets.org/snapshots/</a>, a checkout from CVS, or
  17 one of the released wxPythonSrc-2.5.* tarballs.  I'll also assume that
  18 you know your way around your system, the compiler, etc. and most
  19 importantly, that you know what you are doing!  ;-)</p>
  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 the <a class="reference" href="INSTALL.html">INSTALL</a> document for more details.  If
  24 you only use the instructions in this <a class="reference" href="BUILD.html">BUILD</a> document file then you
  25 will end up with a separate installation of wxPython and you can
  26 switch back and forth between this and the release version that you
  27 may already have 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 <p>In the text below I'll use WXDIR with environment variable syntax
  41 (either $WXDIR or %WXDIR%) to refer to the top level directory were
  42 your wxWidgerts and wxPython sources are located.  It will equate to
  43 whereever you checked out the wxWidgets module from CVS, or untarred
  44 the wxPythonSrc tarball to.  You can either substitute the $WXDIR text
  45 below with your actual dir, or set the value in the environment and
  46 use it just like you see it below.</p>
  47 <p>If you run into what appears to be compatibility issues between
  48 wxWidgets and wxPython while building wxPython, be sure you are using
  49 the wxWidgets sources included with the wxPythonSrc tarball or the CVS
  50 snapshot, and not a previously installed version or a version
  51 installed from one of the standard wxWidgets installers.  With the
  52 &quot;unstable&quot; releases (have a odd-numbered minor release value, where
  53 the APIs are allowed to change) there are often significant
  54 differences between the W.X.Y release of wxWidgets and the W.X.Y.Z
  55 release of wxPython.</p>
  56 <div class="section" id="building-on-unix-like-systems-e-g-linux-and-os-x">
  57 <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>
  58 <p>These platforms are built almost the same way while in development
  59 so I'll combine the descriptions about their build process here.
  60 First we will build wxWidgets and install it to an out of the way
  61 place, then do the same for wxPython.</p>
  62 <ol class="arabic">
  63 <li><p class="first">Create a build directory in the main wxWidgets dir, and configure
  64 wxWidgets.  If you want to have multiple builds with different
  65 configure options, just use different subdirectories.  I normally
  66 put the configure command in a script named &quot;.configure&quot; in each
  67 build dir so I can easily blow away everything in the build dir and
  68 rerun the script without having to remember the options I used
  69 before:</p>
  70 <pre class="literal-block">
  71 cd $WXDIR
  72 mkdir bld
  73 cd bld
  74 ../configure --prefix=/opt/wx/2.5 \
  75              --with-gtk \
  76              --with-opengl \
  77              --enable-debug \
  78              --enable-geometry \
  79              --enable-sound --with-sdl \
  80              --enable-display \
  81 </pre>
  82 <p>On OS X of course you'll want to use --with-mac instead of
  83 --with-gtk.</p>
  84 <p><strong>NOTE</strong>: Due to a recent change there is a dependency problem in the
  85 multilib builds of wxWidgets on OSX, so I have switched to a
  86 monolithic build on that platform.  (IOW, all of the core code in
  87 one shared library instead of several.)  I would also expect other
  88 unix builds to do just fine with a monolithic library, but I havn't
  89 tested it in a while so your mileage may vary.  Anyway, to switch
  90 to the monolithic build of wxWidgets just add this configure flag:</p>
  91 <pre class="literal-block">
  92 --enable-monolithic \
  93 </pre>
  94 <p>By default GTK2 will be selected if it is on your build system.  To
  95 force the use of GTK 1.2.x add this flag:</p>
  96 <pre class="literal-block">
  97 --disable-gtk2 \
  98 </pre>
  99 <p>To make the wxWidgets build be Unicode enabled (strongly
 100 recommended if you are building with GTK2) then add:</p>
 101 <pre class="literal-block">
 102 --enable-unicode \
 103 </pre>
 104 <p>Notice that I used a prefix of /opt/wx/2.5.  You can use whatever
 105 path you want, such as a path in your HOME dir or even one of the
 106 standard prefix paths such as /usr or /usr/local if you like, but
 107 using /opt this way lets me easily have multiple versions and ports
 108 of wxWidgets &quot;installed&quot; and makes it easy to switch between them,
 109 without impacting any versions of wxWidgets that may have been
 110 installed via an RPM or whatever.  For the rest of the steps below
 111 be sure to also substitute &quot;/opt/wx/2.5&quot; with whatever prefix you
 112 choose for your build.</p>
 113 <p>If you want to use the image and zlib libraries included with
 114 wxWidgets instead of those already installed on your system, (for
 115 example, to reduce dependencies on 3rd party libraries) then you
 116 can add these flags to the configure command:</p>
 117 <pre class="literal-block">
 118 --with-libjpeg=builtin \
 119 --with-libpng=builtin \
 120 --with-libtiff=builtin \
 121 --with-zlib=builtin \
 122 </pre>
 123 </li>
 124 <li><p class="first">To build and install wxWidgets you could just use the &quot;make&quot;
 125 command but there are other libraries besides the main wxWidgets
 126 libs that also need to be built so again I make a script to do it
 127 all for me so I don't forget anything.  This time it is called
 128 &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
 129 dir I don't lose my scripts too.)  This is what it looks like:</p>
 130 <pre class="literal-block">
 131 make $* \
 132     &amp;&amp; make -C contrib/src/gizmos $* \
 133     &amp;&amp; make -C contrib/src/ogl CXXFLAGS=&quot;-DwxUSE_DEPRECATED=0&quot; $* \
 134     &amp;&amp; make -C contrib/src/stc $* \
 135     &amp;&amp; make -C contrib/src/xrc $*
 136 </pre>
 137 <p>So you just use .make as if it where make, but don't forget to set
 138 the execute bit on .make first!:</p>
 139 <pre class="literal-block">
 140 .make
 141 .make install
 142 </pre>
 143 <p>When it's done you should have an installed set of files under
 144 /opt/wx/2.5 containing just wxWidgets.  Now to use this version of
 145 wxWidgets you just need to add /opt/wx/2.5/bin to the PATH and set
 146 LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH on OS X) to /opt/wx/2.5/lib.</p>
 147 </li>
 148 <li><p class="first">I also have a script to help me build wxPython and it is checked in
 149 to the CVS as wxWidgets/wxPython/b, but you probably don't want to
 150 use it as it's very cryptic and expects that you want to run SWIG,
 151 so if you don't have the latest patched up version of SWIG then
 152 you'll probably get stuck.  So I'll just give the raw commands
 153 instead.</p>
 154 <p>We're not going to install the development version of wxPython with
 155 these commands, so it won't impact your already installed version
 156 of the latest release.  You'll be able test with this version when
 157 you want to, and use the installed release version the rest of the
 158 time.  If you want to install the development version please read
 159 INSTALL.txt.</p>
 160 <p>If you have more than one version of Python on your system then be
 161 sure to use the version of Python that you want to use when running
 162 wxPython programs to run the setup.py commands below.  I'll be
 163 using python2.3.</p>
 164 <p>Make sure that the first wx-config found on the PATH is the one you
 165 installed above, and then change to the $WXDIR/wxPython dir and
 166 run the this command:</p>
 167 <pre class="literal-block">
 168 cd $WXDIR/wxPython
 169 python2.3 setup.py build_ext --inplace --debug
 170 </pre>
 171 <p>If your new wx-config script is not on the PATH, or there is some
 172 other version of it found first, then you can add this to the
 173 command line to ensure your new one is used instead:</p>
 174 <pre class="literal-block">
 175 WX_CONFIG=/opt/wx/2.5/bin/wx-config
 176 </pre>
 177 <p>By default setup.py will assume that you built wxWidgets to use
 178 GTK2.  If you built wxWidgets to use GTK 1.2.x then you should add
 179 this flag to the command-line:</p>
 180 <pre class="literal-block">
 181 WXPORT=gtk2
 182 </pre>
 183 <p>If you would like to do a Unicode enabled build (all strings sent
 184 to or retruned from wx functions are Unicode objects) and your
 185 wxWidgets was built with unicode enabled then add this flag:</p>
 186 <pre class="literal-block">
 187 UNICODE=1
 188 </pre>
 189 <p>If you are wanting to have the source files regenerated with swig,
 190 then you need to turn on the USE_SWIG flag and optionally tell it
 191 where to find the new swig executable, so add these flags:</p>
 192 <pre class="literal-block">
 193 USE_SWIG=1 SWIG=/opt/swig/bin/swig
 194 </pre>
 195 <p>If you get errors about being unable to find libGLU, wxGLCanvas
 196 being undeclared, or something similar then you can add
 197 BUILD_GLCANVAS=0 to the setup.py command line to disable the
 198 building of the glcanvas module.</p>
 199 <p>When the setup.py command is done you should have fully populated
 200 wxPython and wx packages locally in $WXDIR/wxPython/wxPython and
 201 $WXDIR/wxPython/wx, with all the extension modules (<tt class="literal"><span class="pre">*.so</span></tt> files)
 202 located in the wx package.</p>
 203 </li>
 204 <li><p class="first">To run code with the development version of wxPython, just set the
 205 PYTHONPATH to the wxPython dir located in the source tree.  For
 206 example:</p>
 207 <pre class="literal-block">
 208 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/wx/2.5/lib
 209 export PYTHONPATH=$WXDIR/wxPython
 210 cd $WXDIR/wxPython/demo
 211 python2.3 demo.py
 212 </pre>
 213 <p>OS X NOTE: You need to use &quot;pythonw&quot; on the command line to run
 214 wxPython applications.  This version of the Python executable is
 215 part of the Python Framework and is allowed to interact with the
 216 display.  You can also double click on a .py or a .pyw file from
 217 the finder (assuming that the PythonLauncher app is associated with
 218 these file extensions) and it will launch the Framework version of
 219 Python for you.  For information about creating Applicaiton Bundles
 220 of your wxPython apps please see the wiki and the mail lists.</p>
 221 <p>SOLARIS NOTE: If you get unresolved symbol errors when importing
 222 wxPython and you are running on Solaris and building with gcc, then
 223 you may be able to work around the problem by uncommenting a bit of
 224 code in setup.py and building again.  Look for 'SunOS' in setup.py
 225 and uncomment the block containing it.  The problem is that Sun's ld
 226 does not automatically add libgcc to the link step.</p>
 227 </li>
 228 </ol>
 229 </div>
 230 <div class="section" id="building-on-windows">
 231 <h1><a name="building-on-windows">Building on Windows</a></h1>
 232 <p>The Windows builds currently require the use of Microsoft Visual C++.
 233 Theoretically, other compilers (such as mingw32 or the Borland
 234 compilers) can also be used but I've never done the work to make that
 235 happen.  If you want to try that then first you'll want to find out if
 236 there are any tricks that have to be done to make Python extension
 237 modules using that compiler, and then make a few changes to setup.py
 238 to accomodate that.  (And send the patches to me.)  If you plan on
 239 using VisualStudio.Net (a.k.a. MSVC 7.1) keep in mind that you'll also
 240 have to build Python and any other extension modules that you use with
 241 that compiler because a different version of the C runtime library is
 242 used.  The Python executable that comes from PythonLabs and the
 243 wxPython extensions that I distribute are built with MSVC 6 with all
 244 the Service Packs applied.  This policy will change with Python 2.4
 245 and MSVC 7.1 will be used starting with that version.</p>
 246 <p>If you want to build a debuggable version of wxWidgets and wxPython you
 247 will need to have also built a debug version of Python and any other
 248 extension modules you need to use.  You can tell if you have them
 249 already if there is a _d in the file names, for example python_d.exe
 250 or python23_d.dll.  If you don't need to trace through the C/C++ parts
 251 of the code with the debugger then building the normal (or hybrid)
 252 version is fine, and you can use the regular python executables with
 253 it.</p>
 254 <p>Just like the unix versions I also use some scripts to help me build
 255 wxWidgets, but I use some non-standard stuff to do it.  So if you have
 256 bash (cygwin or probably MSYS too) or 4NT plus unix-like cat and sed
 257 programs then there is a copy of my wxWidgets build scripts in
 258 %WXDIR%\wxPython\distrib\msw.  Just copy them to
 259 %WXDIR%\build\msw and you can use them to do your build, otherwise
 260 you can do everything by hand as described below.  But if you do work
 261 by hand and something doesn't seem to be working correctly please
 262 refer to the build scripts to see what may need to be done
 263 differently.</p>
 264 <p>The *.btm files are for 4NT and the others are for bash.  They are:</p>
 265 <pre class="literal-block">
 266 .make/.make.btm        Builds the main lib and the needed contribs
 267 .mymake/.mymake.btm    Builds just one lib, use by .make
 268 .makesetup.mk          A makefile that will copy and edit setup.h
 269                        as needed for the different types of builds
 270 </pre>
 271 <p>Okay.  Here's what you've been waiting for, the instructions!  Adapt
 272 accordingly if you are using the bash shell.</p>
 273 <ol class="arabic">
 274 <li><p class="first">Set an environment variable to the root of the wxWidgets source
 275 tree.  This is used by the makefiles:</p>
 276 <pre class="literal-block">
 277 set WXWIN=%WXDIR%
 278 </pre>
 279 </li>
 280 <li><p class="first">Copy setup0.h to setup.h:</p>
 281 <pre class="literal-block">
 282 cd %WXDIR%\include\wx\msw
 283 copy setup0.h setup.h
 284 </pre>
 285 </li>
 286 <li><p class="first">Edit %WXDIR%\include\wx\msw\setup.h and change a few settings:</p>
 287 <pre class="literal-block">
 288 wxDIALOG_UNIT_COMPATIBILITY    0
 289 wxUSE_DEBUG_CONTEXT            1
 290 wxUSE_MEMORY_TRACING           1
 291 wxUSE_DIALUP_MANAGER           0
 292 wxUSE_GLCANVAS                 1
 293 wxUSE_POSTSCRIPT               1
 294 wxUSE_AFM_FOR_POSTSCRIPT       0
 295 wxUSE_DISPLAY                  1
 296 </pre>
 297 <p>If you are using my build scripts then a few more settings will be
 298 changed and then a copy of setup.h is placed in a subdir of
 299 %WXWIN%\libvc_dll.  If you are doing it by hand and making a
 300 UNICODE build, then also change these:</p>
 301 <pre class="literal-block">
 302 wxUSE_UNICODE                  1
 303 wxUSE_UNICODE_MSLU             1
 304 </pre>
 305 <p>If you are doing a &quot;hybrid&quot; build (which is the same as the
 306 binaries that I release) then also change these:</p>
 307 <pre class="literal-block">
 308 wxUSE_MEMORY_TRACING           0
 309 wxUSE_DEBUG_CONTEXT            0
 310 </pre>
 311 </li>
 312 <li><p class="first">Make sure that %WXDIR%\lib\vc_dll directory is on the PATH.  The
 313 wxWidgets DLLs will end up there as part of the build and so you'll
 314 need it on the PATH for them to be found at runtime.</p>
 315 </li>
 316 <li><p class="first">Change to the %WXDIR%\build\msw directory</p>
 317 <blockquote>
 318 <p>cd %WXDIR%\build\msw</p>
 319 </blockquote>
 320 </li>
 321 <li><p class="first">If using my scripts then use the .make.btm command to build
 322 wxWidgets.  It needs one command-line parameter which controls what
 323 kind of build(s) to do.  Use one of the following:</p>
 324 <pre class="literal-block">
 325 debug          Build debug version
 326 hybrid         Build hybrid version
 327 both           Both debug and hybrid
 328 debug-uni      Build a debug unicode library
 329 hybrid-uni     Hybrid unicode (see the pattern yet? ;-)
 330 both-uni       and finally both unicode libraries
 331 </pre>
 332 <p>For example:</p>
 333 <pre class="literal-block">
 334 .make hybrid
 335 </pre>
 336 <p>You can also pass additional command line parameters as needed and
 337 they will all be passed on to the nmake commands, for example to
 338 clean up the build:</p>
 339 <pre class="literal-block">
 340 .make hybrid clean
 341 </pre>
 342 <p>If <em>not</em> using my scripts then you can do it by hand by directly
 343 executing nmake with a bunch of extra command line parameters.
 344 The base set are:</p>
 345 <pre class="literal-block">
 346 -f makefile.vc OFFICIAL_BUILD=1 SHARED=1 MONOLITHIC=0 USE_OPENGL=1
 347 </pre>
 348 <p>If doing a debug build then add:</p>
 349 <pre class="literal-block">
 350 BUILD=debug
 351 </pre>
 352 <p>otherwise add these:</p>
 353 <pre class="literal-block">
 354 DEBUG_FLAG=1 CXXFLAGS=/D__NO_VC_CRTDBG__ WXDEBUGFLAG=h BUILD=release
 355 </pre>
 356 <p>If doing a Unicode build then add these flags:</p>
 357 <pre class="literal-block">
 358 UNICODE=1 MSLU=1
 359 </pre>
 360 <p>Now, from the %WXDIR%\build\msw directory run nmake with your
 361 selection of command-line flags as described above.  Repeat this
 362 same command from the following directories in order to build the
 363 contrib libraries:</p>
 364 <pre class="literal-block">
 365     %WXDIR%\contrib\build\gizmos
 366     %WXDIR%\contrib\build\xrc
 367     %WXDIR%\contrib\build\stc
 368     %WXDIR%\contrib\build\ogl
 369
 370 Note, that the ogl lib build will need an additional flag::
 371
 372     CPPFLAGS=&quot;-DwxUSE_DEPRECATED=0&quot;
 373 </pre>
 374 </li>
 375 <li><p class="first">When that is all done it will have built the main wxWidgets DLLs
 376 and also some of the contribs DLLs.  There should be a ton of DLLs
 377 and lots of lib files and other stuff in %WXDIR%\lib\vc_dll.</p>
 378 </li>
 379 <li><p class="first">Building wxPython on Windows is very similar to doing it for the
 380 unix systems.  We're not going to install the development version
 381 of wxPython with these commands, so it won't impact your already
 382 installed version of the latest release.  You'll be able to test
 383 with this version when you want to, and use the installed release
 384 version the rest of the time.  If you ever do want to install the
 385 development version please refer to INSTALL.txt.</p>
 386 <p>Change to the %WXDIR%\wxPython dir and run the this command,
 387 making sure that you use the version of python that you want to
 388 build for (if you have more than one on your system):</p>
 389 <pre class="literal-block">
 390 cd %WXDIR%\wxPython
 391 python setup.py build_ext --inplace
 392 </pre>
 393 <p>If you are wanting to have the source files regenerated with swig,
 394 then you need to turn on the USE_SWIG flag and optionally tell it
 395 where to find the new swig executable, so add these flags:</p>
 396 <pre class="literal-block">
 397 USE_SWIG=1 SWIG=e:\projects\SWIG-cvs\swig.exe
 398 </pre>
 399 <p>If you built a Unicode version of wxWidgets and want to also build
 400 the Unicode version of wxPython then add this flag:</p>
 401 <pre class="literal-block">
 402 UNICODE=1
 403 </pre>
 404 <p>If you have a debug version of Python and wxWidgets and want to
 405 build a debug version of wxPython too, add the --debug flag to the
 406 command line.  You should then end up with a set of <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">*_d.pyd</span></tt>
 407 files in the wx package and you'll have to run <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">python_d.exe</span></tt> to
 408 use them.  The debug and hybrid(release) versions can coexist.</p>
 409 <p>When the setup.py command is done you should have fully populated
 410 wxPython and wx packages locally in %WXDIR%/wxPython/wxPython and
 411 %WXDIR%/wxPython/wx, with all the extension modules (<tt class="literal"><span class="pre">*.pyd</span></tt>
 412 files) located in the wx package.</p>
 413 </li>
 414 <li><p class="first">To run code with the development version of wxPython, just set the
 415 PYTHONPATH to the wxPython dir in the CVS tree.  For example:</p>
 416 <pre class="literal-block">
 417 set PYTHONPATH=%WXDIR%\wxPython
 418 cd %WXDIR\wxPython\demo
 419 python demo.py
 420 </pre>
 421 </li>
 422 </ol>
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