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
  22 Unarchive the required files plus any optional documentation
  23 files into a suitable directory such as c:\wx. Alter your
  24 WXWIN environment variable to point to this directory.
  25
  26 Compilation
  27 -----------
  28
  29 At present, wxWindows compiles with VC++ 4.0/5.0/6.0,
  30 BC++ 4.5/5.0, Gnu-Win32 b19/b20, and Mingw32. It may compile
  31 with 16-bit compilers (BC++ and VC++ 1.5) but this hasn't
  32 been tested lately.
  33
  34 Visual C++ 4.0/5.0/6.0 compilation
  35 ----------------------------------
  36
  37 1. Change directory to wx\src\msw. Type 'nmake -f makefile.nt' to
  38    make the wxWindows core library.
  39 2. Change directory to wx\samples and type 'nmake -f makefile.nt'
  40    to make all the samples. You can also make them individually.
  41
  42 Visual C++ 1.5 compilation
  43 --------------------------
  44
  45 1. Change directory to wx\src\msw. Type 'nmake -f makefile.dos' to
  46    make the wxWindows core library.
  47 2. Change directory to wx\samples and type 'nmake -f makefile.dos'
  48    to make all the samples. You can also make them individually.
  49    NOTE: only a few samples have up-to-date makefiles, e.g.
  50    minimal, docview, mdi. The utils makefile does not yet work.
  51
  52 Borland C++ 4.5/5.0 compilation
  53 -------------------------------
  54
  55 1. Change directory to wx\src\msw. Type 'make -f makefile.b32' to
  56    make the wxWindows core library.
  57 2. Change directory to wx\samples and type 'make -f makefile.b32'
  58    to make all the samples. You can also make them individually.
  59    NOTE: only a few samples have up-to-date makefiles, e.g.
  60    minimal, docview, mdi. The utils makefile does not yet work.
  61
  62 Gnu-Win32 b19/b20/Mingw32 compilation
  63 -------------------------------------
  64
  65 wxWindows 2.0 supports Gnu-Win32/Cygwin b19, b20, Mingw32, and Mingw32/EGCS.
  66
  67 Thanks are due to Keith Garry Boyce (garp@opustel.com) and Cygnus for making
  68 it all possible.
  69
  70 From wxWindows 2.0 beta 9, both Gnu-Win32 and Mingw32 (the minimal
  71 distribution of Gnu-Win32) can be used with the same makefiles.
  72
  73 Here are the steps required:
  74
  75 - Retrieve and install the latest beta of Gnu-Win32, or Mingw32, as per the
  76   instructions with either of these packages.
  77
  78 - If using Mingw32 (including the EGCS variant), you need some
  79   extra files to use the wxWindows makefiles. You can find these
  80   files in ports/mingw32 on the ftp site or CD-ROM, as extra.zip.
  81   These should be extracted to the Mingw32 directory.
  82
  83 - Modify the file wx/src/cygnus.bat (or mingw32.bat or mingegcs.bat)
  84   to set up appropriate variables, if necessary mounting drives.
  85   Run it before compiling.
  86
  87 - For Gnu-Win32, make sure there's a \tmp directory on your
  88   Windows drive or bison will crash.
  89
  90 - Edit wx/src/makeg95.env and search for MINGW32. Take note of
  91   the comments for adjusting settings to suit Gnu-Win32 or
  92   Mingw32. Basically, this is just a case of adding the __MINGW32__ symbol
  93   to OPTIONS for Mingw32, or removing it for Cygnus Gnu-Win32.
  94   For Mingw32/EGCS, add both __MINGW32__ and __EGCS__.
  95
  96 - Mingw32 may not support winsock.h, so comment out
  97   socket-related files in src/msw/makefile.g95.
  98
  99 - Use the makefile.g95 files for compiling wxWindows and samples,
 100   e.g.:
 101   > cd c:\wx\src\msw
 102   > make -f makefile.g95
 103   > cd c:\wx\samples\minimal
 104   > make -f makefile.g95
 105
 106 - Use the 'strip' command to reduce executable size.
 107
 108 - With Cygnus Gnu-Win32, you can invoke gdb --nw myfile.exe to
 109   debug an executable. If there are memory leaks, they will be
 110   flagged when the program quits.
 111
 112 - If using GnuWin32 b18, you will need to copy windres.exe
 113   from e.g. the Mingw32 distribution, to a directory in your path.
 114
 115 All targets have 'clean' targets to allow removal of object files
 116 and other intermediate compiler files.
 117
 118 Gotchas:
 119
 120 - libwx.a is 48 MB or more - but much less if compiled with no
 121   debug info (-g0) and level 4 optimization (-O4).
 122 - install.exe doesn't have built-in decompression because lzexpand.lib
 123   isn't available with Gnu-Win32. However, you can use it with external
 124   decompression utilities.
 125 - Doesn't compile src/msw/ole files, so no drag and drop.
 126
 127 References:
 128
 129  - The GNU-WIN32 site is at
 130      http://www.cygnus.com/gnu-win32/
 131  - Mingw32 is available at:
 132      http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~janjaap/mingw32/index.html
 133  - See also http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/gnuwin32.htm
 134
 135 Notes
 136 -----
 137
 138 - Debugging: under Windows 95, debugging output isn't output in
 139   the same way that it is under NT or Windows 3.1. Set
 140   wxUSE_DBWIN32 to 1 if you wish to enable code to output debugging
 141   info to an external debug monitor, such as Andrew Tucker's DBWIN32.
 142   You can download DBWIN32 from:
 143
 144         http://ftp.digital.com/pub/micro/NT/WinSite/programr/dbwin32.zip
 145
 146   and it's also on the wxWindows CD-ROM.