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 wx200vc.zip             MS VC++ 5.0 project files
  22
  23 Unarchive the required files plus any optional documentation
  24 files into a suitable directory such as c:\wx. Alter your
  25 WXWIN environment variable to point to this directory.
  26
  27 Compilation
  28 -----------
  29
  30 At present, wxWindows compiles with VC++ 4.0/5.0/6.0,
  31 BC++ 4.5/5.0, Gnu-Win32 b19/b20, and Mingw32. It may compile
  32 with 16-bit compilers (BC++ and VC++ 1.5) but this hasn't
  33 been tested lately.
  34
  35 Visual C++ 4.0/5.0/6.0 compilation
  36 ----------------------------------
  37
  38 Using project files:
  39
  40 1. Unarchive wx200vc.zip, the VC++ 5 project makefiles.
  41 2. Open src/wxvc.dsp, set Debug or Release configuration, and
  42    compile. This will produce lib/wxvc.lib or lib/wxvc_debug.lib.
  43 3. Open a sample project file, choose a configuration, and compile.
  44    The project files don't use precompiled headers, to save
  45    space, but you can switch PCH compiling on for greater speed.
  46
  47 Using makefiles:
  48
  49 1. Change directory to wx\src\msw. Type 'nmake -f makefile.nt' to
  50    make the wxWindows core library.
  51 2. Change directory to wx\samples and type 'nmake -f makefile.nt'
  52    to make all the samples. You can also make them individually.
  53
  54 Visual C++ 1.5 compilation
  55 --------------------------
  56
  57 1. Change directory to wx\src\msw. Type 'nmake -f makefile.dos' to
  58    make the wxWindows core library.
  59 2. Change directory to wx\samples and type 'nmake -f makefile.dos'
  60    to make all the samples. You can also make them individually.
  61    NOTE: only a few samples have up-to-date makefiles, e.g.
  62    minimal, docview, mdi. The utils makefile does not yet work.
  63
  64 Borland C++ 4.5/5.0 compilation
  65 -------------------------------
  66
  67 1. Change directory to wx\src\msw. Type 'make -f makefile.b32' to
  68    make the wxWindows core library.
  69 2. Change directory to wx\samples and type 'make -f makefile.b32'
  70    to make all the samples. You can also make them individually.
  71    NOTE: only a few samples have up-to-date makefiles, e.g.
  72    minimal, docview, mdi. The utils makefile does not yet work.
  73
  74 Gnu-Win32 b19/b20/Mingw32 compilation
  75 -------------------------------------
  76
  77 wxWindows 2.0 supports Gnu-Win32/Cygwin b19, b20, Mingw32, and Mingw32/EGCS.
  78
  79 Thanks are due to Keith Garry Boyce (garp@opustel.com) and Cygnus for making
  80 it all possible.
  81
  82 From wxWindows 2.0 beta 9, both Gnu-Win32 and Mingw32 (the minimal
  83 distribution of Gnu-Win32) can be used with the same makefiles.
  84
  85 Here are the steps required:
  86
  87 - Retrieve and install the latest beta of Gnu-Win32, or Mingw32, as per the
  88   instructions with either of these packages.
  89
  90 - If using Mingw32 (including the EGCS variant), you need some
  91   extra files to use the wxWindows makefiles. You can find these
  92   files in ports/mingw32 on the ftp site or CD-ROM, as extra.zip.
  93   These should be extracted to the Mingw32 directory.
  94   IMPORTANT: also see mingw32.txt in this directory (docs/msw)
  95   about a fix that has to be applied to a Mingw32 header file.
  96
  97 - Modify the file wx/src/cygnus.bat (or mingw32.bat or mingegcs.bat)
  98   to set up appropriate variables, if necessary mounting drives.
  99   Run it before compiling.
 100
 101 - For Gnu-Win32, make sure there's a \tmp directory on your
 102   Windows drive or bison will crash.
 103
 104 - Edit wx/src/makeg95.env and search for MINGW32. Take note of
 105   the comments for adjusting settings to suit Gnu-Win32 or
 106   Mingw32. Basically, this is just a case of adding the __MINGW32__ symbol
 107   to OPTIONS for Mingw32, or removing it for Cygnus Gnu-Win32.
 108   For Mingw32/EGCS, add both __MINGW32__ and __EGCS__.
 109
 110 - Mingw32 may not support winsock.h, so comment out
 111   socket-related files in src/msw/makefile.g95.
 112
 113 - Use the makefile.g95 files for compiling wxWindows and samples,
 114   e.g.:
 115   > cd c:\wx\src\msw
 116   > make -f makefile.g95
 117   > cd c:\wx\samples\minimal
 118   > make -f makefile.g95
 119
 120 - Use the 'strip' command to reduce executable size.
 121
 122 - With Cygnus Gnu-Win32, you can invoke gdb --nw myfile.exe to
 123   debug an executable. If there are memory leaks, they will be
 124   flagged when the program quits.
 125
 126 - If using GnuWin32 b18, you will need to copy windres.exe
 127   from e.g. the Mingw32 distribution, to a directory in your path.
 128
 129 All targets have 'clean' targets to allow removal of object files
 130 and other intermediate compiler files.
 131
 132 Gotchas:
 133
 134 - libwx.a is 48 MB or more - but much less if compiled with no
 135   debug info (-g0) and level 4 optimization (-O4).
 136 - install.exe doesn't have built-in decompression because lzexpand.lib
 137   isn't available with Gnu-Win32. However, you can use it with external
 138   decompression utilities.
 139 - Doesn't compile src/msw/ole files, so no drag and drop.
 140
 141 References:
 142
 143  - The GNU-WIN32 site is at
 144      http://www.cygnus.com/gnu-win32/
 145  - Mingw32 is available at:
 146      http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~janjaap/mingw32/index.html
 147  - See also http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/gnuwin32.htm
 148
 149 Notes
 150 -----
 151
 152 - Debugging: under Windows 95, debugging output isn't output in
 153   the same way that it is under NT or Windows 3.1. Set
 154   wxUSE_DBWIN32 to 1 if you wish to enable code to output debugging
 155   info to an external debug monitor, such as Andrew Tucker's DBWIN32.
 156   You can download DBWIN32 from:
 157
 158         http://ftp.digital.com/pub/micro/NT/WinSite/programr/dbwin32.zip
 159
 160   and it's also on the wxWindows CD-ROM under Packages.