docs/motif/install.txt

   1 wxWindows 2.0 for Motif installation
   2 ------------------------------------
   3
   4 - Prerequisites: Motif 1.2 or above, or Lesstif
   5   (not yet tested). Motif 2.0 and above may also be suitable.
   6
   7 - Download the files wx200gen.zip and wx200mot.zip, and
   8   documentation in a preferred format, such as wx200htm.zip
   9   or wx200pdf.zip.
  10
  11 - Make a directory such as ~/wx and unzip the files into this
  12   directory. Use the -a option if available to convert the ASCII
  13   files to Unix format. Don't worry about files being
  14   overwritten: they should be identical anyway.
  15
  16 COMPILING USING CONFIGURE
  17
  18 - You can use the wxGTK configure system to make wxMotif, or
  19   you can follow the following steps to use the simpler (but
  20   less automatic) makefile system. If using configure, the
  21   following script should make the library and samples, when
  22   run from the top-level wxWindows directory (see also 'makewx'
  23   in this directory):
  24
  25   # Make wxMotif using the configure system
  26   chmod a+x install/unix/config.sub
  27   install/unix/setup/general/* \
  28     install/unix/config.guess install/unix/setup/shared/*
  29   cd install/unix
  30   autoconf && ./configure --with-shared --with-motif --with-debug_flag \
  31    --with-debug_info --without-threads
  32   cd ../..
  33   make makefiles
  34   make
  35
  36 COMPILING USING MAKEFILES
  37
  38 - Choose a .env file from src/makeenvs that matches your
  39   environment, and copy it to src/make.env. These are the
  40   settings read by wxWindows for Motif makefiles.
  41
  42 - Edit src/make.env to change options according to your local
  43   environment. In particular, change WXDIR to where wxWindows is
  44   found on your system, or set the WXWIN environment variable
  45   before compilation, e.g.:
  46
  47     export WXWIN=/home/jacs/wx2
  48
  49   Later, there will be a better makefile system
  50   and/or alternate make.env files as per wxWindows 1.68.
  51   Please feel free to contribute settings files for your environment.
  52
  53 - Change directory to src/motif and type:
  54
  55     make -f makefile.unx motif
  56
  57   This should make the library libwx_motif.a in the lib
  58   directory.
  59
  60 - Make a sample, such as the minimal sample:
  61
  62     cd samples/minimal
  63     make -f makefile.unx motif
  64
  65   and run the resulting minimal_motif binary.
  66
  67 Notes:
  68 ------
  69
  70 - Better installation and makefile systems are
  71   required. Although the wxGTK config system can be used to make
  72   wxMotif and samples, it can't easily be made to work
  73   with applications outside the wxWindows hierarchy. Hence the
  74   simple makefile system.
  75
  76 - Debugging mode is switched on by default. To compile in non-debug
  77   mode, remove the -D__WXDEBUG__ switch in make.env.
  78
  79 - Some classes can be switched off in include/wx/motif/setup.h,
  80   if you are having trouble with a particular file. However,
  81   I'd prefer you to fix the problem and send the fix to me :-) or at
  82   least let me know about it.
  83
  84 - Thread support is switched off by default in setup.h (wxUSE_THREADS)
  85   because standard Unices often do not have the necessary thread library
  86   installed. Please see ../docs/gtk/install.txt for more details on this.
  87   For Linux, the problem is expected to go away with future
  88   distributions of the operating system.
  89
  90 - If you have trouble compiling the file y_tab.c, or have strange
  91   linking errors, check whether you're using a C or C++ compiler for this file.
  92   You should specify a C compiler in the CCLEX variable in src/make.env.
  93
  94 - If you run into problems with a missing X11/Xpm.h header, you
  95   need to install the XPM package. It can be obtained from:
  96
  97   ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/libraries/xpm-3.4k.tar.gz
  98   http://sunfreeware.com
  99
 100   You may need to modify make.env to add -I and -L options pointing to where Xpm
 101   is installed and possibly change bitmap.cpp to
 102   include <xpm.h> instead of <X11/xpm.h>
 103
 104   Alternatively, edit include/motif/setup.h, set wxUSE_XPM
 105   to 0, and recompile. You will not be able to load any XPMs,
 106   though (currently the only supported colour bitmap format).
 107
 108 - Please send bug reports with a description of your environment,
 109   compiler and the error message(s) to the wxwin-users mailing list at:
 110
 111     wxwin-users@wx.dent.med.uni-muenchen.de
 112
 113
 114 Julian Smart, December 1998.
 115 julian.smart@ukonline.co.uk