BuildCVS.txt

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   2                 How to build the sources from CVS
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   4
   5 Please use the install.txt files in docs/gtk, docs/msw, docs/motif, docs/mac
   6 etc. alongside these instructions.
   7
   8 I) Windows using plain makefiles
   9 ----------------------------------------
  10
  11 a) If using Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 or 6.0
  12
  13 Ensure that the command-line compiler and tools (including
  14 nmake) are installed and ready to run.  Depending on your
  15 installation there may be a batch file (named something like
  16 VCVARS32.BAT) that needs to be run to set correct environment
  17 varaibles and PATH entries.
  18
  19 Continue with item c) below.
  20
  21
  22 b) If using the GNU Mingw32 or GNU Cygwin32 compilers
  23
  24 You can get Mingw32 from  http://www.mingw.org
  25
  26 Cygwin32 is available at  http://www.cygwin.com
  27
  28 The makefile might have small problems with Cygwin's tools
  29 so it is recommended to use Mingw32 and its toolchain instead
  30 if possible.
  31
  32 -> Set your path so that it includes the directory
  33    where your compiler and tools reside
  34
  35 -> If your are using an old Mingw32 version (gcc-2.95 or older),
  36    you might need to fix some headers with the patches contained
  37    in the wxWin\Mingw32-gcc295.patches file. PLEASE APPLY THESE
  38    PATCHES BY HAND! There are apparently a few different versions
  39    of the headers floating around. Note that these patches are
  40    not needed if you are using Mingw32 gcc-2.95.2 or newer.
  41
  42 -> Edit wx/src/makeg95.env and set the MINGW32 variable at the top of
  43    the file to either 1 (you have Mingw32) or 0 (you have Cygwin32).
  44    If using MINGW32, also set the MINGW32VERSION variable
  45    appropiately.
  46
  47
  48 c) Build instructions
  49
  50 -> Assumming that you installed the wxWindows sources
  51    into c:\wxWin
  52 -> Copy c:\wxWin\include\wx\msw\setup0.h
  53    to   c:\wxWin\include\wx\msw\setup.h
  54 -> Edit c:\wxWin\include\wx\msw\setup.h so that
  55    most features are enabled (i.e. defined to 1), for example:
  56    #define wxUSE_ODBC          0
  57    #define wxUSE_SOCKETS       1
  58    #define wxUSE_HTML          1
  59    #define wxUSE_THREADS       1
  60    #define wxUSE_FS_INET       0
  61    #define wxUSE_FS_ZIP        1
  62    #define wxUSE_BUSYINFO      1
  63    #define wxUSE_DYNLIB_CLASS  1
  64    #define wxUSE_ZIPSTREAM     1
  65    #define wxUSE_LIBJPEG       1
  66    #define wxUSE_LIBPNG        1
  67
  68    and std iostreams are disabled with
  69    #define wxUSE_STD_IOSTREAM   0
  70
  71 -> type: cd c:\wxWin\src\msw
  72 -> type: make -f makefile.g95  (if using GNU tools)
  73 or type: nmake -f makefile.vc   (if using MS VC++)
  74
  75
  76 II) Unix ports
  77 --------------
  78
  79 Building wxGTK or wxMotif completely without configure
  80 won't ever work, but there is now a new makefile system
  81 that works without libtool and automake, using only
  82 configure to create what is needed.
  83
  84 In order to create configure, you need to have the
  85 GNU autoconf package (version 2.13 or 2.14) installed
  86 on your system and type run "autoconf" in the base
  87 directory (or run the autogen.sh script in the same
  88 directory, which just calls autoconf).
  89
  90 Set WXWIN environment variable to the base directory such
  91 as ~/wxWindows (this is actually not really needed).
  92
  93 -> type: export WXWIN=~/wxWindows
  94 -> type: md mybuild
  95 -> type: cd mybuild
  96 -> type: ../configure --with-motif
  97 or type: ../configure --with-gtk
  98 -> type: make
  99 -> type: su <type root password>
 100 -> type: make install
 101 -> type: ldconfig
 102 -> type: exit
 103
 104 Call configure with --disable-shared to create a static
 105 library. Calling "make uninstall" will remove the installed
 106 library and "make dist" will create a distribution (not
 107 yet complete).
 108
 109 III) Windows using configure
 110 ----------------------------------------
 111
 112 Take a look at Unix->Windows cross compiling. With minor
 113 modifications, this should work in Windows if you've got the cygnus
 114 utilities (bash, GNU make, etc) and either mingw32 or cygwin32 installed.
 115 See http://www.cygnus.com for these programs, or go straight to their
 116 ftp server at ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/cygwin/.
 117
 118 Of course, you can also build the library using plain makefiles (see
 119 section I).
 120
 121 IV) Classic MacOS using CodeWarrior (eg MacOS 8.x/9.x)
 122 ----------------------------------------
 123
 124 Refer to the readme.txt and install.txt files in docs/mac to build
 125 wxWindows under Classic Mac OS using CodeWarrior.
 126
 127 If you are checking out the CVS sources using cvs under Mac OS X and
 128 compiling under Classic Mac OS:
 129
 130 - make sure that all text files have a Mac OS type of 'TEXT' otherwise
 131   CodeWarrior may ignore them. Checking out the CVS sources using cvs
 132   under Mac OS X creates untyped files which can lead to compilation
 133   errors under CodeWarrior which are hard to track down.
 134
 135 - convert the xml files to CodeWarrior binary projects using the supplied
 136   AppleScript in docs/mac (M5xml2mcp.applescript for CodeWarrior 5.3)
 137
 138 V) MacOS X using configure and the Developer Tools
 139 ----------------------------------------
 140
 141 You need to have the Developer Tools installed. If this is not the case,
 142 you will need to register at the Apple Developer web site (this is a free
 143 registration) in order to download the Developer Tools installer.
 144
 145 In order to create configure, you need to have the
 146 GNU autoconf package (version 2.13 or 2.14) installed
 147 on your system and type run "autoconf" in the base
 148 directory (or run the autogen.sh script in the same
 149 directory, which just calls autoconf).
 150
 151 -> type: mkdir macbuild
 152 -> type: cd macbuild
 153 -> type: ../configure --with-mac
 154 or type: ../configure
 155 -> type: make
 156
 157 VI) OS/2
 158 ----------------------------------------
 159
 160 VII) Unix->Windows cross-compiling using configure
 161 --------------------------------------------------
 162
 163 First you'll need a cross-compiler; linux glibc binaries of mingw32 and
 164 cygwin32 (both based on egcs) can be found at
 165 ftp://ftp.objsw.com/pub/crossgcc/linux-x-win32. Alternative binaries,
 166 based on the latest MinGW release can be found at
 167 http://members.telering.at/jessich/mingw/mingwcross/mingw_cross.html
 168 Otherwise you can compile one yourself.
 169
 170 [ A Note about cygwin32 and mingw32: the main difference is that cygwin32
 171 binaries are always linked against cygwin.dll. This dll encapsulates most
 172 standard Unix C extensions, which is very handy if you're porting unix
 173 software to windows. However, wxMSW doesn't need this, so mingw32 is
 174 preferable if you write portable C(++). ]
 175
 176 You might want to build both Unix and Windows binaries in the same source
 177 tree; to do this make subdirs for each e.g. unix and win32. If you've
 178 already build wxWindows in the main dir, do a 'make distclean' there,
 179 otherwise configure will get confused. (In any case, read the section 'Unix
 180 using configure' and make sure you're able to build a native wxWindows
 181 library; cross-compiling errors can be pretty obscure and you'll want to be
 182 sure that your configure setup is basically sound.)
 183
 184 To cross compile the windows library, do
 185 -> cd win32
 186 (or whatever you called it)
 187 Now run configure. There are two ways to do this
 188 -> ../configure --host=i586-mingw32 --build=i586-linux --with-mingw
 189 where --build= should read whatever platform you're building on. Configure
 190 will notice that build and host platforms differ, and automatically prepend
 191 i586-mingw32- to gcc, ar, ld, etc (make sure they're in the PATH!).
 192 The other way to run configure is by specifying the names of the binaries
 193 yourself:
 194 -> CC=i586-mingw32-gcc CXX=i586-mingw32-g++ RANLIB=i586-mingw32-ranlib \
 195    DLLTOOL=i586-mingw32-dlltool LD=i586-mingw32-ld NM=i586-mingw32-nm \
 196    ../configure --host=i586-mingw32 --with-mingw
 197
 198 (all assuming you're using mingw32)
 199 By default this will compile a DLL, if you want a static library,
 200 specify --disable-shared.
 201
 202 Type
 203 -> make
 204 and wait, wait, wait. Don't leave the room, because the minute you do there
 205 will be a compile error :-)
 206
 207 NB: if you are using a very old compiler you risk to get quite a few warnings
 208     about "ANSI C++ forbids implicit conversion from 'void *'" in all places
 209     where va_arg macro is used. This is due to a bug in (some versions of)
 210     mingw32 headers which may be corrected by upgrading your compier,
 211     otherwise you might edit the file
 212
 213     ${install_prefix}/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mingw32/egcs-2.91.57/include/stdarg.h
 214
 215     (instead of egcs-2.91.57 you may have something different), searching for
 216     the lines
 217
 218 /* Define __gnuc_va_list.  */
 219
 220 #ifndef __GNUC_VA_LIST
 221 #define __GNUC_VA_LIST
 222 #if defined(__svr4__) || defined(_AIX) || defined(_M_UNIX) || defined(__NetBSD__)
 223 typedef char *__gnuc_va_list;
 224 #else
 225 typedef void *__gnuc_va_list;
 226 #endif
 227 #endif
 228
 229     and adding "|| defined(_WIN32)" to the list of platforms on which
 230     __gnuc_va_list is char *.
 231
 232 If this is successful, you end up with a wx23_2.dll/libwx23_2.a in win32/lib
 233 ( or just libwx_msw.a if you opted for a static build ).
 234 Now try building the minimal sample:
 235
 236 -> cd samples/minimal
 237 -> make
 238
 239 and run it with wine, for example (or copy to a Windows box)
 240 -> wine minimal.exe
 241
 242 If all is well, do an install; from win32
 243 -> make install
 244
 245 Native and cross-compiled installations can co-exist peacefully
 246 (as long as their widget sets differ), except for wx-config. You might
 247 want to rename the cross-compiled one to i586-mingw32-wx-config, or something.
 248
 249 Cross-compiling TODO:
 250 ---------------------
 251 - resource compiling must be done manually for now (should/can we link the
 252 default wx resources into libwx_msw.a?) [ No we can't; the linker won't
 253 link it in... you have to supply an object file ]
 254 - static executables are HUGE -- there must be room for improvement.
 255