docs/motif/install.txt

   1 wxWindows 2.0 for Motif installation
   2 ------------------------------------
   3
   4 IMPORTANT NOTE: If you experience problems installing, please
   5 re-read this instructions and other related files (todo.txt,
   6 bugs.txt etc.) carefully before mailing wxwin-users or
   7 the author. Preferably, try to fix the problem first and
   8 then send a patch to the author.
   9
  10 - Prerequisites: Motif 1.2 or above, or Lesstif
  11   (not yet tested). Motif 2.0 and above may also be suitable.
  12
  13 - Download the files wx200gen.zip and wx200mot.zip, and
  14   documentation in a preferred format, such as wx200htm.zip
  15   or wx200pdf.zip.
  16
  17 - Make a directory such as ~/wx and unzip the files into this
  18   directory. Use the -a option if available to convert the ASCII
  19   files to Unix format. Don't worry about files being
  20   overwritten: they should be identical anyway.
  21
  22   (See http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/ if you don't have zip/unzip
  23   already installed. Zip isn't the same as gzip!)
  24
  25 - It is recommended that you install bison and flex; using yacc
  26   and lex may require tweaking of the makefiles. You also need
  27   Xpm (see comments in the Notes section below).
  28
  29 - You now have the option of using the configure-based system,
  30   or the simple makefile system. Configure is more hard to debug
  31   if things go wrong, but may be easier to use if they go OK :-)
  32   Makefiles are easier to tweak.
  33
  34 COMPILING USING CONFIGURE
  35 =========================
  36
  37 - You can use the wxGTK configure system to make wxMotif, or
  38   you can follow the following steps to use the simpler (but
  39   less automatic) makefile system. If using configure, the
  40   following script should make the library and samples, when
  41   run from the top-level wxWindows directory (see also 'makewxmotif'
  42   in this directory). Make this script executable with the command
  43   chmod a+x makewxmotif.
  44
  45   -------:x-----Cut here-----:x-----
  46   # makewxmotif
  47   # Sets permissions (in case we extracted wxMotif from zip files)
  48   # and makes wxMotif.
  49   # Call from top-level wxWindows directory.
  50   # Note that this uses standard (but commonly-used) configure options;
  51   # if you're feeling brave, you may wish to compile with threads.
  52   # -- Julian Smart
  53   chmod a+x configure config.sub config.guess setup/general/* setup/shared/*
  54   ./configure --with-shared --with-motif --without-gtk --with-debug_flag --with-debug_info --without-threads
  55   make makefiles
  56   make
  57   -------:x-----Cut here-----:x-----
  58
  59   This script will build wxMotif using shared libraries.
  60
  61 - Change directory to a sample e.g. samples/minimal, and type make.
  62   The binary will end up under the Linux (or other appropriate) subdirectory.
  63
  64 - To build an application outside the wxWindows hierarchy, you can
  65   use `wx-config --cflags` when compiling source files and `wx-config --libs`
  66   when linking, where wx-config is in the wxWindows root directory.
  67   These invocations return the appropriate flags for the compiler.
  68
  69 - When compiling certain utilities such as Dialog Editor, you may find
  70   that the makefile refers to wx-config as above. Unless you have used
  71   "make install" to install wxWindows, wx-config won't be found, so
  72   either edit the makefile to hard-wire the flags, or place wx-config
  73   where it will be found by the makefile.
  74
  75 COMPILING USING MAKEFILES
  76 =========================
  77
  78 - Choose a .env file from src/makeenvs that matches your
  79   environment, and copy it to src/make.env. These are the
  80   settings read by wxWindows for Motif makefiles.
  81
  82 - Edit src/make.env to change options according to your local
  83   environment. In particular, change WXDIR to where wxWindows is
  84   found on your system, or set the WXWIN environment variable
  85   before compilation, e.g.:
  86
  87     export WXWIN=/home/jacs/wx2
  88
  89   Please feel free to contribute settings files for your environment.
  90
  91 - Change directory to src/motif and type:
  92
  93     make -f makefile.unx motif
  94
  95   This should make the library libwx_motif.a in the lib
  96   directory. Note that this makefile system does not build shared
  97   libraries, only static ones (that is, the wxWindows library will be
  98   linked statically; to see remaining dependencies on shared libraries,
  99   type e.g. ldd minimal_motif).
 100
 101 - Make a sample, such as the minimal sample:
 102
 103     cd samples/minimal
 104     make -f makefile.unx motif
 105
 106   and run the resulting minimal_motif binary.
 107
 108 Troubleshooting
 109 ---------------
 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   You could also try using bison and flex instead of yacc and
 115   lex.
 116
 117 - Solaris compilation with gcc: if the compiler has problems with the variable argument
 118   functions, try putting the gcc fixinclude file paths early in the
 119   include path.
 120
 121 - If you get strange memory problems (for example in deletion
 122   of string arrays), set wxUSE_GLOBAL_MEMORY_OPERATORS to 0 in
 123   setup.h, and recompile.
 124
 125 - If you get an internal compiler error in gcc, turn off
 126   optimisations.
 127
 128 - Problems with XtDestroyWidget crashing in ~wxWindow have been
 129   reported on SGI IRIX 6.4. This has not yet been resolved, so
 130   any advice here would be very welcome. See bugs.txt for a
 131   possible temporary workaround.
 132
 133 Other Notes
 134 -----------
 135
 136 - Better installation and makefile systems are
 137   required. A revised configure system is in preparation.
 138
 139 - Debugging mode is switched on by default. To compile in non-debug
 140   mode, remove the -D__WXDEBUG__ switch in make.env (or if using the
 141   configure system, change --with-debug_flag to --without_debug_flag
 142   and --with-debug_info to --without-debug_info in the makewxmotif
 143   script).
 144
 145 - Some classes can be switched off in include/wx/motif/setup.h,
 146   if you are having trouble with a particular file. However,
 147   I'd prefer you to fix the problem and send the fix to me :-) or at
 148   least let me know about it.
 149
 150 - Thread support is switched off by default in setup.h (wxUSE_THREADS)
 151   because standard Unices often do not have the necessary thread library
 152   installed. Please see ../docs/gtk/install.txt for more details on this.
 153   For Linux, the problem is expected to go away with future
 154   distributions of the operating system.
 155
 156 - If you run into problems with a missing X11/Xpm.h header, you
 157   need to install the XPM package. It can be obtained from:
 158
 159   ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/libraries/xpm-3.4k.tar.gz
 160   http://sunfreeware.com
 161
 162   You may need to modify make.env to add -I and -L options pointing to where Xpm
 163   is installed and possibly change bitmap.cpp to
 164   include <xpm.h> instead of <X11/xpm.h>
 165
 166   Alternatively, edit include/motif/setup.h, set wxUSE_XPM
 167   to 0, and recompile. You will not be able to load any XPMs,
 168   though (currently the only supported colour bitmap format).
 169
 170 Bug reports
 171 -----------
 172
 173 Please send bug reports with a description of your environment,
 174 compiler and the error message(s) to the wxwin-users mailing list at:
 175
 176     wxwin-users@wx.dent.med.uni-muenchen.de
 177
 178 Julian Smart, February 1999.
 179 julian.smart@ukonline.co.uk