docs/wine/install.txt

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   3       using (including the beta) and what compiler on what system. One
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   6 * Preparing WINE
   7 ----------------
   8
   9 Most C++ compilers cannot compile the WINE sources yet (this includes
  10 all versions of g++ and ecgs) so you have to make a minimal change
  11 and recompile all of WINE in order to get anywhere.
  12
  13 This change has do be applied to the /include/windef.h file, line 59
  14 in the section "Calling convention defintions", where the sources
  15 reads:
  16
  17 #if __i386__
  18
  19 which has to be changed into
  20
  21 #if 0
  22
  23 After this change, you'll have to recompile all of WINE without
  24 forgetting to install it. The direct consequence of this change
  25 is that the Win32 binary emulator won't work anymore, as the
  26 change disables the Windows native calling convention.
  27
  28 * The most simple case
  29 -----------------------
  30
  31 If you compile wxWindows on Linux for the first time and don't like to read
  32 install instructions just do (in the base dir):
  33
  34 > ./configure --with-wine
  35 > make
  36 > su <type root password>
  37 > make install
  38 > ldconfig
  39 > exit
  40
  41 On all variants of Unix except Linux (and maybe except *BSD), shared libraries
  42 are not supportet out of the box due to the utter stupidity of libtool, so you'll
  43 have to do this to get shared library support:
  44
  45 > ./configure --with-wine --disable-static --enable-shared
  46
  47 Then you'll have to edit the wrongly created libtool script. There are two
  48 important entries with respect to shared library creation, which are
  49
  50   archive_cmds="\$LD -shared ....
  51   archive_expsym_cmds="\$LD -shared ....
  52
  53 which should be something like
  54
  55   archive_cmds="\$CC -shared ....
  56   archive_expsym_cmds="\$CC -shared ....
  57
  58 Afterwards you can continue with
  59
  60 > make
  61 > su <type root password>
  62 > make install
  63 > ldconfig
  64 > exit
  65
  66 If you want to remove wxWindows on Unix you can do this:
  67
  68 > su <type root password>
  69 > make uninstall
  70 > ldconfig
  71 > exit
  72
  73 * The expert case
  74 -----------------
  75
  76 If you want to do some more serious cross-platform programming with wxWindows,
  77 such as for GTK and Motif, you can now build two complete libraries and use
  78 them concurretly. For this end, you have to create a directory for each build
  79 of wxWindows - you may also want to create different versions of wxWindows
  80 and test them concurrently. Most typically, this would be a version configured
  81 with --enable-debug_flag and one without. Note, that only one build can currently
  82 be installed, so you'd have to use local version of the library for that purpose.
  83 For building three versions (one GTK, one WINE and a debug version of the WINE
  84 source) you'd do this:
  85
  86 md buildmotif
  87 cd buildmotif
  88 ../configure --with-motif
  89 make
  90 cd ..
  91
  92 md buildwine
  93 cd buildwine
  94 ../configure --with-wine
  95 make
  96 cd ..
  97
  98 md buildwined
  99 cd buildwined
 100 ../configure --with-wine --enable-debug_flag
 101 make
 102 cd ..
 103
 104 * The most simple errors
 105 ------------------------
 106
 107 wxWINE doesn't work yet as WINE isn't really up to the task yet.
 108
 109 You get errors during compilation: The reason is that you probably have a broken
 110 compiler, which includes almost everything that is called gcc. If you use gcc 2.8
 111 you have to disable optimsation as the compiler will give up with an internal
 112 compiler error.
 113
 114 If there is just any way for you to use egcs, use egcs. We cannot fix gcc.
 115
 116 You get immediate segfault when starting any sample or application: This is either
 117 due to having compiled the library with different flags or options than your program -
 118 typically you might have the __WXDEBUG__ option set for the library but not for your
 119 program - or due to using a broken compiler (and its optimisation) such as GCC 2.8.
 120
 121 * The most simple program
 122 -------------------------
 123
 124 Now create your super-application myfoo.app and compile anywhere with
 125
 126 g++ myfoo.cpp `wx-config --libs --cflags` -o myfoo
 127
 128 * General
 129 -----------------------
 130
 131 The Unix variants of wxWindows use GNU configure. If you have problems with your
 132 make use GNU make instead.
 133
 134 If you have general problems with installation, read my homepage at
 135
 136   http://wesley.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~wxxt
 137
 138 for newest information. If you still don't have any success, please send a bug
 139 report to one of our mailing lists (see my homepage) INCLUDING A DESCRIPTION OF
 140 YOUR SYSTEM AND YOUR PROBLEM, SUCH AS YOUR VERSION OF WINE, WXWINE, WHAT DISTRIBUTION
 141 YOU USE AND WHAT ERROR WAS REPORTED. I know this has no effect, but I tried...
 142
 143 * GUI libraries
 144 -----------------------
 145
 146 wxWindows/WINE requires the WINE library to be installed on your system.
 147
 148 You can get the newest version of the WINE from the WINE homepage at:
 149
 150   http://www.winehq.com
 151
 152 * Create your configuration
 153 -----------------------------
 154
 155 Usage:
 156         ./configure options
 157
 158 If you want to use system's C and C++ compiler,
 159 set environment variables CC and CCC as
 160
 161         % setenv CC cc
 162         % setenv CCC CC
 163         % ./configure options
 164
 165 to see all the options please use:
 166
 167         ./configure --help
 168
 169 The basic philosophy is that if you want to use different
 170 configurations, like a debug and a release version,
 171 or use the same source tree on different systems,
 172 you have only to change the environment variable OSTYPE.
 173 (Sadly this variable is not set by default on some systems
 174 in some shells - on SGI's for example). So you will have to
 175 set it there. This variable HAS to be set before starting
 176 configure, so that it knows which system it tries to
 177 configure for.
 178
 179 Configure will complain if the system variable OSTYPE has
 180 not been defined. And Make in some circumstances as well...
 181
 182
 183 * General options
 184 -------------------
 185
 186 Given below are the commands to change the default behaviour,
 187 i.e. if it says "--disable-threads" it means that threads
 188 are enabled by default.
 189
 190 Many of the confiugre options have been thoroughly tested
 191 in wxWindows snapshot 6, but not yet all (ODBC not).
 192
 193 You must do this by running configure with either of:
 194
 195         --with-wine              Use the WINE library
 196
 197 The following options handle the kind of library you want to build.
 198
 199         --enable-threads        Compile without thread support. Threads
 200                                 support is also required for the
 201                                 socket code to work.
 202
 203         --disable-shared        Do not create shared libraries.
 204
 205         --disable-optimise      Do not optimise the code. Can
 206                                 sometimes be useful for debugging
 207                                 and is required on some architectures
 208                                 such as Sun with gcc 2.8.X which
 209                                 would otherwise produce segvs.
 210
 211         --enable-profile        Add profiling info to the object
 212                                 files. Currently broken, I think.
 213
 214         --enable-no_rtti        Enable compilation without creation of
 215                                 C++ RTTI information in object files.
 216                                 This will speed-up compilation and reduce
 217                                 binary size.
 218
 219         --enable-no_exceptions  Enable compilation without creation of
 220                                 C++ exception information in object files.
 221                                 This will speed-up compilation and reduce
 222                                 binary size. Also fewer crashes during the
 223                                 actual compilation...
 224
 225         --enable-mem_tracing    Add built-in memory tracing.
 226
 227         --enable-dmalloc        Use the dmalloc memory debugger.
 228                                 Read more at www.letters.com/dmalloc/
 229
 230         --enable-debug_info     Add debug info to object files and
 231                                 executables for use with debuggers
 232                                 such as gdb (or its many frontends).
 233
 234         --enable-debug_flag     Define __DEBUG__ and __WXDEBUG__ when
 235                                 compiling. This enable wxWindows' very
 236                                 useful internal debugging tricks (such
 237                                 as automatically reporting illegal calls)
 238                                 to work. Note that program and library
 239                                 must be compiled with the same debug
 240                                 options.
 241
 242 * Feature Options
 243 -------------------
 244
 245 Many of the confiugre options have been thoroughly tested
 246 in wxWindows snapshot 6, but not yet all (ODBC not).
 247
 248 When producing an executable that is linked statically with wxGTK
 249 you'll be surprised at its immense size. This can sometimes be
 250 drastically reduced by removing features from wxWindows that
 251 are not used in your program. The most relevant such features
 252 are
 253
 254         --without-libpng        Disables PNG image format code.
 255
 256         --without-libjpeg       Disables JPEG image format code.
 257
 258 {       --without-odbc          Disables ODBC code. Not yet. }
 259
 260         --disable-resources     Disables the use of *.wxr type
 261                                 resources.
 262
 263         --disable-threads       Disables threads. Will also
 264                                 disable sockets.
 265
 266         --disable-sockets       Disables sockets.
 267
 268         --disable-dnd           Disables Drag'n'Drop.
 269
 270         --disable-clipboard     Disables Clipboard.
 271
 272         --disable-serial        Disables object instance serialiasation.
 273
 274         --disable-streams       Disables the wxStream classes.
 275
 276         --disable-file          Disables the wxFile class.
 277
 278         --disable-textfile      Disables the wxTextFile class.
 279
 280         --disable-intl          Disables the internationalisation.
 281
 282         --disable-validators    Disables validators.
 283
 284         --disable-accel         Disables accel.
 285
 286 Apart from disabling certain features you can very often "strip"
 287 the program of its debugging information resulting in a significant
 288 reduction in size.
 289
 290 * Compiling
 291 -------------
 292
 293 The following must be done in the base directory (e.g. ~/wxGTK
 294 or ~/wxWin or whatever)
 295
 296 Now the makefiles are created (by configure) and you can compile
 297 the library by typing:
 298
 299         make
 300
 301 make yourself some coffee, as it will take some time. On an old
 302 386SX possibly two weeks. During compilation, you'll get a few
 303 warning messages depending in your compiler.
 304
 305 If you want to be more selective, you can change into a specific
 306 directiry and type "make" there.
 307
 308 Then you may install the library and it's header files under
 309 /usr/local/include/wx and /usr/local/lib respectively. You
 310 have to log in as root (i.e. run "su" and enter the root
 311 password) and type
 312
 313         make install
 314
 315 You can remove any traces of wxWindows by typing
 316
 317         make uninstall
 318
 319 If you want to save disk space by removing unnecessary
 320 object-files:
 321
 322          make clean
 323
 324 in the various directories will do the work for you.
 325
 326 * Creating a new Project
 327 --------------------------
 328
 329 1) The first way uses the installed libraries and header files
 330 automatically using wx-config
 331
 332 g++ myfoo.cpp `wx-config --libs` `wx-config --cflags` -o myfoo
 333
 334 Using this way, a make file for the minimal sample would look
 335 like this
 336
 337 CC = g++
 338
 339 minimal: minimal.o
 340     $(CC) -o minimal minimal.o `wx-config --libs`
 341
 342 minimal.o: minimal.cpp mondrian.xpm
 343     $(CC) `wx-config --cflags` -c minimal.cpp -o minimal.o
 344
 345 clean:
 346         rm -f *.o minimal
 347
 348 This is certain to become the standard way unless we decide
 349 to sitch to tmake.
 350
 351 2) The other way creates a project within the source code
 352 directories of wxWindows. For this endeavour, you'll need
 353 the usual number of GNU tools, at least
 354
 355 GNU automake version 1.4
 356 GNU autoheader version 2.14
 357 GNU autoconf version 2.14
 358 GNU libtool version 1.3
 359
 360 and quite possibly
 361
 362 GNU make
 363 GNU C++
 364
 365 and if you have all this then you probably know enough to
 366 go ahead yourself :-)
 367
 368 ----------------------
 369
 370 In the hope that it will be useful,
 371
 372         Robert Roebling <roebling@sun2.ruf.uni-freiburg.de>
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