utils/wxPython/BUILD.txt

   1 Build Instructions
   2 ------------------
   3 I used SWIG (http://www.swig.org) to create the source code for the
   4 extension module.  This enabled me to only have to deal with a small
   5 amount of code and only have to bother with the exceptional issues.
   6 SWIG takes care of the rest and generates all the repetative code for
   7 me.  You don't need SWIG to build the extension module as all the
   8 generated C++ code is included under the src directory.
   9
  10 I added a few minor features to SWIG to control some of the code
  11 generation.  If you want to play around with this you will need to get
  12 a recent version of SWIG from their CVS or from a daily build.  See
  13 http://www.swig.org/ for details.
  14
  15 wxPython is organized as a Python package.  This means that the
  16 directory containing the results of the build process should be a
  17 subdirectory of a directory on the PYTHONPATH.  (And preferably should
  18 be named wxPython.)  You can control where the build process will dump
  19 wxPython by setting the TARGETDIR variable for the build utility, (see
  20 below.)
  21
  22
  23 1. Build and install wxWindows as described in its BuildCVS.txt or
  24    INSTALL.txt file.  For *nix systems I run configure with these
  25    flags:
  26
  27                 --with-gtk
  28                 --with-libjpeg
  29                 --without-odbc
  30                 --enable-unicode=no
  31                 --enable-threads=yes
  32                 --enable-socket=yes
  33                 --enable-static=no
  34                 --enable-shared=yes
  35                 --disable-std_iostreams
  36
  37    You can use whatever flags you want, but these work for me.
  38
  39    For Win32 systems I use Visual C++ 6.0, but 5.0 should work.  The
  40    build utility currently does not support any other win32
  41    compilers.  Be sure to copy include/wx/msw/setup0.h to
  42    include/wx/msw/setup.h and edit it for the options you want.
  43
  44
  45 2. For either platform, you should be sure to set an environment
  46    variable named WXWIN to be the path to the top of the wxWindows
  47    tree.
  48
  49 3. If you are working from a copy of the code retrieved from CVS, then
  50    you will find wxPython in $WXWIN/utils/wxPython.  If you are
  51    working from the tar.gz or .zip files then you will probably want
  52    to unpack wxPython in the $WXWIN/utils directory and rename the new
  53    directory to wxPython (or use a symlink.)  If you want to keep it
  54    in a separate directory then you can change where the build.py tool
  55    expects to find it by creating a file named build.local (see step 6
  56    for more examples about build.local,) containing something like
  57    this:
  58
  59    WXPSRCDIR = "~/MyStuff/wxPython-2.1.11/src"
  60
  61
  62 4. At this point you may want to make an alias or symlink, script,
  63    batch file, whatever on the PATH that invokes
  64    $WXWIN/utils/wxPython/distrib/build.py to help simplify matters
  65    somewhat.  For example, on my win32 system I have a file named
  66    build.bat in a directory on the PATH that contains:
  67
  68    python %WXWIN%/utils/wxPython/distrib/build.py %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6
  69
  70
  71 5. Change into the $(WXWIN)/utils/wxPython/src directory.
  72
  73
  74 6. Type "build -b" to build wxPython and "build -i" to install it.
  75
  76    The build.py script actually generates a Makefile based on what it
  77    finds on your system and information found in the build.cfg file.
  78    If you have troubles building or you want it built or installed in
  79    a different way, take a look at the docstring in build.py.  You may
  80    be able to override configuration options in a file named
  81    build.local.  For example, you can set a new TARGETDIR just by
  82    creating a file named build.local in your wxPython source directory
  83    and assign a value to it, like this:
  84
  85    TARGETDIR = "/usr/local/lib/python1.5/site-packages/wxPython"
  86
  87    The build.local file is executed as Python code so you can do very
  88    creative things there if you need to.
  89
  90
  91 7. To build and install the add-on modules, change to the appropriate
  92    directory under $WXWIN/utils/wxPython/modules and run the build
  93    utility again.
  94
  95
  96 8. Change to the $WXWIN/utils/wxPython/demo directory.
  97
  98
  99 9. Try executing the demo program.  For example:
 100
 101     python demo.py
 102
 103 To run it without requiring a console on win32, you can use the
 104 pythonw.exe version of Python either from the command line or from a
 105 shortcut.
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 107