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 a sample, such as wx\samples\minimal, and
  60    type 'nmake -f makefile.dos'.
  61
  62 Borland C++ 4.5/5.0 compilation
  63 -------------------------------
  64
  65 1. Change directory to wx\src\msw. Type 'make -f makefile.b32' to
  66    make the wxWindows core library.
  67 2. Change directory to wx\samples and type 'make -f makefile.b32'
  68    to make all the samples. You can also make them individually.
  69    NOTE: only a few samples have up-to-date makefiles, e.g.
  70    minimal, docview, mdi. The utils makefile does not yet work.
  71
  72 Watcom C++ 10.6 compilation
  73 ---------------------------
  74
  75 Currently under construction, but so far we have:
  76
  77 1. Change directory to wx\src\msw. Type 'wmake -f makefile.wat' to
  78    make the wxWindows core library.
  79 2. Change directory to wx\samples\minimal and type 'wmake -f makefile.wat'
  80    to make this sample. There are a lot of link errors at this
  81    point, so can anyone help work out what I've done wrong?
  82
  83 Gnu-Win32 b19/b20/Mingw32 compilation
  84 -------------------------------------
  85
  86 wxWindows 2.0 supports Gnu-Win32/Cygwin b19, b20, Mingw32, and Mingw32/EGCS.
  87
  88 Thanks are due to Keith Garry Boyce (garp@opustel.com) and Cygnus for making
  89 it all possible.
  90
  91 From wxWindows 2.0 beta 9, both Gnu-Win32 and Mingw32 (the minimal
  92 distribution of Gnu-Win32) can be used with the same makefiles.
  93
  94 Here are the steps required:
  95
  96 - Retrieve and install the latest beta of Gnu-Win32, or Mingw32, as per the
  97   instructions with either of these packages.
  98
  99 - If using Mingw32 (including the EGCS variant), you need some
 100   extra files to use the wxWindows makefiles. You can find these
 101   files in ports/mingw32 on the ftp site or CD-ROM, as extra.zip.
 102   These should be extracted to the Mingw32 directory.
 103   IMPORTANT: also see mingw32.txt in this directory (docs/msw)
 104   about a fix that has to be applied to a Mingw32 header file.
 105
 106 - Modify the file wx/src/cygnus.bat (or mingw32.bat or mingegcs.bat)
 107   to set up appropriate variables, if necessary mounting drives.
 108   Run it before compiling.
 109
 110 - For Gnu-Win32, make sure there's a \tmp directory on your
 111   Windows drive or bison will crash.
 112
 113 - Edit wx/src/makeg95.env and search for MINGW32. Take note of
 114   the comments for adjusting settings to suit Gnu-Win32 or
 115   Mingw32. Basically, this is just a case of adding the __MINGW32__ symbol
 116   to OPTIONS for Mingw32, or removing it for Cygnus Gnu-Win32.
 117   For Mingw32/EGCS, add both __MINGW32__ and __EGCS__.
 118
 119 - Mingw32 may not support winsock.h, so comment out
 120   socket-related files in src/msw/makefile.g95.
 121
 122 - Use the makefile.g95 files for compiling wxWindows and samples,
 123   e.g.:
 124   > cd c:\wx\src\msw
 125   > make -f makefile.g95
 126   > cd c:\wx\samples\minimal
 127   > make -f makefile.g95
 128
 129 - Use the 'strip' command to reduce executable size.
 130
 131 - With Cygnus Gnu-Win32, you can invoke gdb --nw myfile.exe to
 132   debug an executable. If there are memory leaks, they will be
 133   flagged when the program quits.
 134
 135 - If using GnuWin32 b18, you will need to copy windres.exe
 136   from e.g. the Mingw32 distribution, to a directory in your path.
 137
 138 All targets have 'clean' targets to allow removal of object files
 139 and other intermediate compiler files.
 140
 141 Gotchas:
 142
 143 - libwx.a is 48 MB or more - but much less if compiled with no
 144   debug info (-g0) and level 4 optimization (-O4).
 145 - install.exe doesn't have built-in decompression because lzexpand.lib
 146   isn't available with Gnu-Win32. However, you can use it with external
 147   decompression utilities.
 148 - Doesn't compile src/msw/ole files, so no drag and drop.
 149
 150 References:
 151
 152  - The GNU-WIN32 site is at
 153      http://www.cygnus.com/gnu-win32/
 154  - Mingw32 is available at:
 155      http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~janjaap/mingw32/index.html
 156  - See also http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/gnuwin32.htm
 157
 158 Notes
 159 -----
 160
 161 - Debugging: under Windows 95, debugging output isn't output in
 162   the same way that it is under NT or Windows 3.1. Set
 163   wxUSE_DBWIN32 to 1 if you wish to enable code to output debugging
 164   info to an external debug monitor, such as Andrew Tucker's DBWIN32.
 165   You can download DBWIN32 from:
 166
 167         http://ftp.digital.com/pub/micro/NT/WinSite/programr/dbwin32.zip
 168
 169   and it's also on the wxWindows CD-ROM under Packages.