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 'makewxmotif'
  23   in this directory). Make this script executable with the command
  24   chmod a+x makewxmotif.
  25
  26   -------:x-----Cut here-----:x-----
  27   # makewxmotif
  28   # Sets permissions (in case we extracted wxMotif from zip files)
  29   # and makes wxMotif.
  30   # Call from top-level wxWindows directory.
  31   # Note that this uses standard (but commonly-used) configure options;
  32   # if you're feeling brave, you may wish to compile with threads.
  33   # -- Julian Smart
  34   chmod a+x configure config.sub config.guess setup/general/* setup/shared/*
  35   ./configure --with-shared --with-motif --without-gtk --with-debug_flag --with-debug_info --without-threads
  36   make makefiles
  37   make
  38   -------:x-----Cut here-----:x-----
  39
  40   This script will build wxMotif using shared libraries.
  41
  42 - Change directory to a sample e.g. samples/minimal, and type make.
  43   The binary will end up under the Linux (or other appropriate) subdirectory.
  44
  45 - To build an application outside the wxWindows hierarchy, you can
  46   use `wx-config --cflags` when compiling source files and `wx-config --libs`
  47   when linking, where wx-config is in the wxWindows root directory.
  48   These invocations return the appropriate flags for the compiler.
  49
  50 - When compiling certain utilities such as Dialog Editor, you may find
  51   that the makefile refers to wx-config as above. Unless you have used
  52   "make install" to install wxWindows, wx-config won't be found, so
  53   either edit the makefile to hard-wire the flags, or place wx-config
  54   where it will be found by the makefile.
  55
  56 COMPILING USING MAKEFILES
  57
  58 - Choose a .env file from src/makeenvs that matches your
  59   environment, and copy it to src/make.env. These are the
  60   settings read by wxWindows for Motif makefiles.
  61
  62 - Edit src/make.env to change options according to your local
  63   environment. In particular, change WXDIR to where wxWindows is
  64   found on your system, or set the WXWIN environment variable
  65   before compilation, e.g.:
  66
  67     export WXWIN=/home/jacs/wx2
  68
  69   Please feel free to contribute settings files for your environment.
  70
  71 - Change directory to src/motif and type:
  72
  73     make -f makefile.unx motif
  74
  75   This should make the library libwx_motif.a in the lib
  76   directory. Note that this makefile system does not build shared
  77   libraries, only static ones (that is, the wxWindows library will be
  78   linked statically; to see remaining dependencies on shared libraries,
  79   type e.g. ldd minimal_motif).
  80
  81 - Make a sample, such as the minimal sample:
  82
  83     cd samples/minimal
  84     make -f makefile.unx motif
  85
  86   and run the resulting minimal_motif binary.
  87
  88 Notes:
  89 ------
  90
  91 - Better installation and makefile systems are
  92   required. A revised configure system is in preparation.
  93
  94 - Debugging mode is switched on by default. To compile in non-debug
  95   mode, remove the -D__WXDEBUG__ switch in make.env (or if using the
  96   configure system, change --with-debug_flag to --without_debug_flag
  97   and --with-debug_info to --without-debug_info in the makewxmotif
  98   script).
  99
 100 - Some classes can be switched off in include/wx/motif/setup.h,
 101   if you are having trouble with a particular file. However,
 102   I'd prefer you to fix the problem and send the fix to me :-) or at
 103   least let me know about it.
 104
 105 - Thread support is switched off by default in setup.h (wxUSE_THREADS)
 106   because standard Unices often do not have the necessary thread library
 107   installed. Please see ../docs/gtk/install.txt for more details on this.
 108   For Linux, the problem is expected to go away with future
 109   distributions of the operating system.
 110
 111 - If you have trouble compiling the file y_tab.c, or have strange
 112   linking errors, check whether you're using a C or C++ compiler for this file.
 113   You should specify a C compiler in the CCLEX variable in src/make.env.
 114
 115 - If you run into problems with a missing X11/Xpm.h header, you
 116   need to install the XPM package. It can be obtained from:
 117
 118   ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/libraries/xpm-3.4k.tar.gz
 119   http://sunfreeware.com
 120
 121   You may need to modify make.env to add -I and -L options pointing to where Xpm
 122   is installed and possibly change bitmap.cpp to
 123   include <xpm.h> instead of <X11/xpm.h>
 124
 125   Alternatively, edit include/motif/setup.h, set wxUSE_XPM
 126   to 0, and recompile. You will not be able to load any XPMs,
 127   though (currently the only supported colour bitmap format).
 128
 129 - Please send bug reports with a description of your environment,
 130   compiler and the error message(s) to the wxwin-users mailing list at:
 131
 132     wxwin-users@wx.dent.med.uni-muenchen.de
 133
 134
 135 Julian Smart, January 1999.
 136 julian.smart@ukonline.co.uk