docs/osx/install.txt

   1 wxWidgets for Mac installation
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   3
   4 On MacOS X, you can download Apple's free developer tools (gcc
   5 and associated headers and libraries, such as the Carbon API).
   6 You can then use configure in a similar way to compiling
   7 wxWidgets on Linux (or on Windows using MinGW or Cygwin). See
   8 'Apple Developer Tools' below for more details on using
   9 configure.
  10
  11
  12 Apple Developer Tools: command line
  13 -----------------------------------
  14
  15 As in all Unix projects, you need to do something like this under MacOS X
  16 with the Apple Developer Tools installed:
  17
  18 1) cd into the base dir
  19 2) mkdir osx-build
  20 3) cd osx-build
  21 4) ../configure (add --with-osx_cocoa for the Cocoa port)
  22 5) make
  23
  24 If you want to install the library into the system directories you'll need
  25 to do this as root.  The accepted way of running commands as root is to
  26 use the built-in sudo mechanism.  First of all, you must be using an
  27 account marked as a "Computer Administrator".  Then
  28
  29 6) sudo make install
  30 7) type <YOUR OWN PASSWORD>
  31
  32 Note that while using this method is okay for development, it is not
  33 recommended that you require endusers to install wxWidgets into their
  34 system directories in order to use your program.  One way to avoid this
  35 is to configure wxWidgets with --disable-shared.  Another way to avoid
  36 it is to make a framework for wxWidgets.  Making frameworks is beyond
  37 the scope of this document.
  38
  39 Note:
  40 We recommend you configure a static library instead:
  41
  42 4) ../configure --disable-shared
  43
  44 or activate OpenGL:
  45
  46 4) ../configure --with-opengl
  47
  48 Note:
  49 It is rarely desirable to install non-Apple software into system directories.
  50 By configuring the library with --disable-shared and using the full path
  51 to wx-config with the --in-place option you can avoid installing the library.
  52
  53
  54 Apple Developer Tools: Xcode
  55 ----------------------------
  56
  57 You can use the project in src/wxWindows.xcodeproj to build wxWidgets,
  58 and there is a sample project supplied with the minimal sample.
  59
  60 Notice that the command line build above builds not just the library itself but
  61 also wxrc tool which doesn't have its own Xcode project. If you need this tool,
  62 the simplest possibility is to build it from the command line after installing
  63 the libraries using commands like this:
  64
  65 $ cd utils/wxrc
  66 $ g++ -o wxrc wxrc.cpp `wx-config --cxxflags --libs base,xml`
  67
  68 Creating universal binaries
  69 ---------------------------
  70
  71 The Xcode projects for the wxWidgets library and minimal project are set up
  72 to create universal binaries.
  73
  74 If using the Apple command line tools, pass --enable-universal_binary when
  75 configuring wxWidgets. If you use wx-config --libs to link your application,
  76 he necessary linker flags will be added. When compiling your own files,
  77 you need to add -arch ppc -arch i386 to your CFLAGS.
  78
  79 As an alternative to using --enable-universal_binary, you can build for
  80 each architecture separately and then use the lipo tool to glue the
  81 binaries together. Assuming building on a PPC system:
  82
  83 1. First build in the usual way to get the PPC library.
  84
  85 2. Then, build for Intel, in a different folder. This time use:
  86
  87 export CFLAGS="-g -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -arch i386"
  88 export LDFLAGS="-syslibroot,/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk"
  89
  90 ./configure --disable-dependency-tracking --enable-static=yes --enable-shared=no \
  91   --target=i386-apple-darwin8 --host=powerpc-apple-darwin8 --build=i386-apple-darwin8
  92
  93 You will need to reverse the powerpc and i386 parameters everywhere to build PPC on an Intel
  94 machine.
  95
  96 3. Use lipo to glue the binaries together.
  97
  98 See also:
  99 http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2005/tn2137.html
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