wxPython/samples/embedded/README.txt

   1 This sample shows how to embed wxPython into a wxWindows application.
   2 There are a few little tricks needed to make it work, but once over
   3 the hurdle it should work just fine for you.  I'll try to describe the
   4 build issues here, see the code and comments in embedded.cpp for
   5 examples of how to use it.
   6
   7 1. The most important thing is that your wx application and wxPython
   8    must use the same version and the same instance of wxWindows.  That
   9    means that you can not statically link your app with wxWindows, but
  10    must use a dynamic library for wxWindows.
  11
  12 2. You must ensure that your app and wxPython are using the same
  13    wxWindows DLL.  By default on MSW wxPython installs the wxWindows
  14    DLL to a directory not on the PATH, so you may have to do something
  15    creative to make that happen.  But because of #3 this may not be
  16    that big of a problem.
  17
  18 3. wxPython, your app and wxWindows must be built with the same flags
  19    and settings.  This probably means that you will need to rebuild
  20    wxPython yourself.  It may be possible for me to distribute the
  21    setup.h and etc. that I use, but you'll need to rebuild everything
  22    yourself anyway to get debugger versions so I'm not too wrried
  23    about it just yet.  BTW, on MSW if you do a FINAL=0 build (full
  24    debug version) then you will need to have a debug version of Python
  25    built too since it expects to have extension modules in files with
  26    a _d in the name.  If you do a FINAL=hybrid build then you will be
  27    able to use the stock version of Python, but you won't be able to
  28    trace through the PYTHON API functions.
  29
  30 4. I expect that most of these issues will be much more minor on
  31    Unix.  ;-)
  32