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   IMPORTANT: also see mingw32.txt in this directory (docs/msw)
  83   about a fix that has to be applied to a Mingw32 header file.
  84
  85 - Modify the file wx/src/cygnus.bat (or mingw32.bat or mingegcs.bat)
  86   to set up appropriate variables, if necessary mounting drives.
  87   Run it before compiling.
  88
  89 - For Gnu-Win32, make sure there's a \tmp directory on your
  90   Windows drive or bison will crash.
  91
  92 - Edit wx/src/makeg95.env and search for MINGW32. Take note of
  93   the comments for adjusting settings to suit Gnu-Win32 or
  94   Mingw32. Basically, this is just a case of adding the __MINGW32__ symbol
  95   to OPTIONS for Mingw32, or removing it for Cygnus Gnu-Win32.
  96   For Mingw32/EGCS, add both __MINGW32__ and __EGCS__.
  97
  98 - Mingw32 may not support winsock.h, so comment out
  99   socket-related files in src/msw/makefile.g95.
 100
 101 - Use the makefile.g95 files for compiling wxWindows and samples,
 102   e.g.:
 103   > cd c:\wx\src\msw
 104   > make -f makefile.g95
 105   > cd c:\wx\samples\minimal
 106   > make -f makefile.g95
 107
 108 - Use the 'strip' command to reduce executable size.
 109
 110 - With Cygnus Gnu-Win32, you can invoke gdb --nw myfile.exe to
 111   debug an executable. If there are memory leaks, they will be
 112   flagged when the program quits.
 113
 114 - If using GnuWin32 b18, you will need to copy windres.exe
 115   from e.g. the Mingw32 distribution, to a directory in your path.
 116
 117 All targets have 'clean' targets to allow removal of object files
 118 and other intermediate compiler files.
 119
 120 Gotchas:
 121
 122 - libwx.a is 48 MB or more - but much less if compiled with no
 123   debug info (-g0) and level 4 optimization (-O4).
 124 - install.exe doesn't have built-in decompression because lzexpand.lib
 125   isn't available with Gnu-Win32. However, you can use it with external
 126   decompression utilities.
 127 - Doesn't compile src/msw/ole files, so no drag and drop.
 128
 129 References:
 130
 131  - The GNU-WIN32 site is at
 132      http://www.cygnus.com/gnu-win32/
 133  - Mingw32 is available at:
 134      http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~janjaap/mingw32/index.html
 135  - See also http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/gnuwin32.htm
 136
 137 Notes
 138 -----
 139
 140 - Debugging: under Windows 95, debugging output isn't output in
 141   the same way that it is under NT or Windows 3.1. Set
 142   wxUSE_DBWIN32 to 1 if you wish to enable code to output debugging
 143   info to an external debug monitor, such as Andrew Tucker's DBWIN32.
 144   You can download DBWIN32 from:
 145
 146         http://ftp.digital.com/pub/micro/NT/WinSite/programr/dbwin32.zip
 147
 148   and it's also on the wxWindows CD-ROM.