docs/motif/install.txt

   1 wxWindows 2.0 for Motif installation
   2 ------------------------------------
   3
   4 - Prerequisites: Motif 1.2 or above, or Lesstif
   5   (not yet tested). Motif 2.0 and above may also be suitable.
   6
   7 - Download the files wx200gen.zip and wx200mot.zip, and
   8   documentation in a preferred format, such as wx200htm.zip
   9   or wx200pdf.zip.
  10
  11 - Make a directory such as ~/wx and unzip the files into this
  12   directory. Use the -a option if available to convert the ASCII
  13   files to Unix format. Don't worry about files being
  14   overwritten: they should be identical anyway.
  15
  16   (See http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/ if you don't have zip/unzip
  17   already installed. Zip isn't the same as gzip!)
  18
  19 - It is recommended that you install bison and flex; using yacc
  20   and lex may require tweaking of the makefiles. You also need
  21   Xpm (see comments in the Notes section below).
  22
  23 - You now have the option of using the configure-based system,
  24   or the simple makefile system. Configure is more hard to debug
  25   if things go wrong, but may be easier to use if they go OK :-)
  26   Makefiles are easier to tweak.
  27
  28 COMPILING USING CONFIGURE
  29 =========================
  30
  31 - You can use the wxGTK configure system to make wxMotif, or
  32   you can follow the following steps to use the simpler (but
  33   less automatic) makefile system. If using configure, the
  34   following script should make the library and samples, when
  35   run from the top-level wxWindows directory (see also 'makewxmotif'
  36   in this directory). Make this script executable with the command
  37   chmod a+x makewxmotif.
  38
  39   -------:x-----Cut here-----:x-----
  40   # makewxmotif
  41   # Sets permissions (in case we extracted wxMotif from zip files)
  42   # and makes wxMotif.
  43   # Call from top-level wxWindows directory.
  44   # Note that this uses standard (but commonly-used) configure options;
  45   # if you're feeling brave, you may wish to compile with threads.
  46   # -- Julian Smart
  47   chmod a+x configure config.sub config.guess setup/general/* setup/shared/*
  48   ./configure --with-shared --with-motif --without-gtk --with-debug_flag --with-debug_info --without-threads
  49   make makefiles
  50   make
  51   -------:x-----Cut here-----:x-----
  52
  53   This script will build wxMotif using shared libraries.
  54
  55 - Change directory to a sample e.g. samples/minimal, and type make.
  56   The binary will end up under the Linux (or other appropriate) subdirectory.
  57
  58 - To build an application outside the wxWindows hierarchy, you can
  59   use `wx-config --cflags` when compiling source files and `wx-config --libs`
  60   when linking, where wx-config is in the wxWindows root directory.
  61   These invocations return the appropriate flags for the compiler.
  62
  63 - When compiling certain utilities such as Dialog Editor, you may find
  64   that the makefile refers to wx-config as above. Unless you have used
  65   "make install" to install wxWindows, wx-config won't be found, so
  66   either edit the makefile to hard-wire the flags, or place wx-config
  67   where it will be found by the makefile.
  68
  69 COMPILING USING MAKEFILES
  70 =========================
  71
  72 - Choose a .env file from src/makeenvs that matches your
  73   environment, and copy it to src/make.env. These are the
  74   settings read by wxWindows for Motif makefiles.
  75
  76 - Edit src/make.env to change options according to your local
  77   environment. In particular, change WXDIR to where wxWindows is
  78   found on your system, or set the WXWIN environment variable
  79   before compilation, e.g.:
  80
  81     export WXWIN=/home/jacs/wx2
  82
  83   Please feel free to contribute settings files for your environment.
  84
  85 - Change directory to src/motif and type:
  86
  87     make -f makefile.unx motif
  88
  89   This should make the library libwx_motif.a in the lib
  90   directory. Note that this makefile system does not build shared
  91   libraries, only static ones (that is, the wxWindows library will be
  92   linked statically; to see remaining dependencies on shared libraries,
  93   type e.g. ldd minimal_motif).
  94
  95 - Make a sample, such as the minimal sample:
  96
  97     cd samples/minimal
  98     make -f makefile.unx motif
  99
 100   and run the resulting minimal_motif binary.
 101
 102 Notes:
 103 ------
 104
 105 - Better installation and makefile systems are
 106   required. A revised configure system is in preparation.
 107
 108 - Debugging mode is switched on by default. To compile in non-debug
 109   mode, remove the -D__WXDEBUG__ switch in make.env (or if using the
 110   configure system, change --with-debug_flag to --without_debug_flag
 111   and --with-debug_info to --without-debug_info in the makewxmotif
 112   script).
 113
 114 - Some classes can be switched off in include/wx/motif/setup.h,
 115   if you are having trouble with a particular file. However,
 116   I'd prefer you to fix the problem and send the fix to me :-) or at
 117   least let me know about it.
 118
 119 - Thread support is switched off by default in setup.h (wxUSE_THREADS)
 120   because standard Unices often do not have the necessary thread library
 121   installed. Please see ../docs/gtk/install.txt for more details on this.
 122   For Linux, the problem is expected to go away with future
 123   distributions of the operating system.
 124
 125 - If you have trouble compiling the file y_tab.c, or have strange
 126   linking errors, check whether you're using a C or C++ compiler for this file.
 127   You should specify a C compiler in the CCLEX variable in src/make.env.
 128
 129 - If you run into problems with a missing X11/Xpm.h header, you
 130   need to install the XPM package. It can be obtained from:
 131
 132   ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/libraries/xpm-3.4k.tar.gz
 133   http://sunfreeware.com
 134
 135   You may need to modify make.env to add -I and -L options pointing to where Xpm
 136   is installed and possibly change bitmap.cpp to
 137   include <xpm.h> instead of <X11/xpm.h>
 138
 139   Alternatively, edit include/motif/setup.h, set wxUSE_XPM
 140   to 0, and recompile. You will not be able to load any XPMs,
 141   though (currently the only supported colour bitmap format).
 142
 143 - Please send bug reports with a description of your environment,
 144   compiler and the error message(s) to the wxwin-users mailing list at:
 145
 146     wxwin-users@wx.dent.med.uni-muenchen.de
 147
 148
 149 Julian Smart, January 1999.
 150 julian.smart@ukonline.co.uk