Platforms supported by wxWindows 2.4

Supported Platforms

You will find below the list of all supported platforms for different ports of wxWindows 2.x (wxMSW/wxGTK/wxMotif ports only). The cross icon in the third column doesn't always mean that the platform is not supported, but may just wxWindows hasn't been tested on it recently (the table is being updated for wxWindows 2.5.1 currently).

See also:

daily rebuilds page for some of the platforms mentioned below;
the list of support classes in each platform;
the wxEmbedded page which describes embedded platforms supported or in progress.

If you have tested wxWindows on a platform not mentioned here, please tell us about your experience on our mailing list! We would especially like to have information about compiling wxGTK on other Unix variants, such as IRIX, DG-UX, other flavours of BSD, ... Please note that you will generally need GNU make (also known as gmake) to compile wxWindows, native make programs often don't work.

wxWindows 2 Platforms

Platform Compiler Status Tested by Remarks

Win32
(Win 9x/NT/2K) Visual C++ 4.2/5.x/6.0 VZ, JS Project files are provided for all versions except 4.2
Borland C++ 5.0
Also works with free command line Borland C++ 5.5
Mingw32 GRG, VZ Cross compilation from Linux works as well
Version 2.95.2 recommended, otherwise some (included) patches must be applied
Memory debugging code doesn't seem to work well
Cygwin Stephane Junique
Andrea Venturoli tested under NT 4, cross-compiling for mingw also works
Watcom C++ 10 Almost JS Tested with 10.6: works, but wxImage seems to be broken
no support for JPEG, TIFF or OpenGL
Watcom C++ 11 Markus Neifer Tested with 11.0b under win95
Open Watcom 1.0 Chris Elliott Tested with 1.0 under W2K(?)
Digital Mars (was Symantec C++) Chris Elliott Tested with 8.34beta

Win64
(Windows XP/2003) Visual C++ 7.1 Some minor corrections not done yet but will be in time for 2.6.0...

Win16
(Windows 3.1) Visual C++ 1.52
Some features are missing (OLE related classes, threads, ...)
Borland C++ can't cope with ODBC, resources and new wxGrid class.
Last working version is wxWindows 2.2.7, support for Win16 has been abandoned in 2.4.x. and all traces of Win16 code were removed after cvs BEFORE_WIN16_REMOVAL tag
Borland C++ 4.0/5.0 JS

Linux x86 wxGTK with gcc 2.7.2 Unknown
Might work, but nobody uses it any more
wxGTK with gcc 2.95--3.3 VZ, RR

wxMotif
with LessTif 0.87
wxMotif
with OpenMotif

All BSD systems tests are for wxGTK using gcc.
FreeBSD all versions between 3.2 and 5.1 x86 VZ

NetBSD 1.6, Alpha VZ

OpenBSD 3.1, Alpha VZ Some problems with shared libraries, ok with static ones

Solaris wxMotif with Sun CC 4.2 VZ Thread support must be disabled on system with not MT-safe X11
wxMotif with gcc

wxGTK with Sun CC 4.2

wxGTK with gcc

wxGTK with Sun CC 5.0 and 6.1 (Solaris 7 and 8) Jiri Mracek You have to edit line 2079 in glib.h to fix GTK+ error
wxGTK 2.5.1 with Sun CC 6.2 (Solaris 6 and 8) Carl Godkin Using GNU make

AIX wxGTK 2.2.9 with gcc 3.0.4 Ian Brown Shared library building doesn't work, use --disable-shared
wxGTK 2.3.3 with xlC (AIX 4.3.2) Irvin Probst Both static and shared wxGTK libraries work, but only with static GTK+ and GLib
wxMotif with xlC 3.1.4.0 (AIX 4.2) Bernhard Eck Some problems with OpenGL and native X server
wxX11 2.4.2 with xlC 6 (AIX 5.1) Swengtoo In 2.4.2 you need to remove parentheses from the configure line containing AIX_CXX_LD; you should also use GNU make

HP-UX
HP-UX 10.20 wxGTK with HP CC A.10.22
or HP aCC B3910B A.01.18 Staf Verhaegen you need to add -Aa -D_HPUX_SOURCE to CFLAGS
HP-UX 10.20 wxGTK with gcc Julian Albo Garcia

HP-UX 11i v1 PA-RISC, wxMotif 2.5.4, tried aCC A.03.57 and g++ 3.4.2 Ian, Mike For a 32-bit PA-RISC build, if you want to use SHLIB_PATH to make it easier to use wxWidgets without installing it, then add LDFLAGS=-Wl,+s
If you want to compile the test suite then aCC A.03.57 requires CXX='aCC -AA'
aCC can also be used as the C compiler instead of cc by adding CC='aCC -Ae'
HP-UX 11i v2 IA64, wxMotif 2.5.4, aCC A.06.00 Mike

IRIX
Note that all entries use MIPSPro 7.3 compiler on IRIX 6.5 with -mips3 -n32 flags if not mentioned otherwise. Also note that you need to set LD_LIBRARYN32_PATH under IRIX to run wxWindows programs.
wxGTK 2.2 Ian You may need to use --disable-catch_segvs if you get compiler error in utilsunx.cpp
wxGTK 2.5 Carl Godkin

wxMotif David Marshall On IRIX 6.5.6 (Indigo2, 64bit), with SGI Motif 1.2
Ian

SCO UnixWare wxGTK with gcc William Suetholz UnixWare 2.1.3 with UnixWare 7 compatibility PTF

DEC OSF/1 wxGTK with gcc Fabrice Didierjean OSF1 4.0 on Dec Alpha
you may need to run configure with --host=alpha-dec-osf switch

OS/2

Starting with wxWidgets-2.9.0, wxWidgets supports Unicode builds only. Unfortunately, Unicode support is currently insufficient in all C libraries on OS/2, so only wxWidgets-2.8.x can be used.

OpenVMS wxGTK with Compaq-C++ V6.2 (OpenVMS Alpha 7.3) Jouk Jansen

Linux S/390 wxGTK with gcc 2.95.2 VZ 2.3.1+ only

Mac OS
wxMac CFM (OS 8.6+) SC with Metrowerks CodeWarrior 8.3

wxMac Mach-O (OS X) SC CodeWarrior or Apple DevTools (gcc)

wxCocoa (OS X) Somewhat DE Apple DevTools (gcc)

Contact Vadim Zeitlin with any comments/suggestions.

wxWindows 2 Platforms
Platform	Compiler	Status	Tested by	Remarks
Win32 (Win 9x/NT/2K)	Visual C++ 4.2/5.x/6.0		VZ, JS	Project files are provided for all versions except 4.2
	Borland C++ 5.0			Also works with free command line Borland C++ 5.5
	Mingw32		GRG, VZ	Cross compilation from Linux works as well Version 2.95.2 recommended, otherwise some (included) patches must be applied Memory debugging code doesn't seem to work well
	Cygwin		Stephane Junique Andrea Venturoli	tested under NT 4, cross-compiling for mingw also works
	Watcom C++ 10		JS	Tested with 10.6: works, but wxImage seems to be broken no support for JPEG, TIFF or OpenGL
	Watcom C++ 11		Markus Neifer	Tested with 11.0b under win95
	Open Watcom 1.0		Chris Elliott	Tested with 1.0 under W2K(?)
	Digital Mars (was Symantec C++)		Chris Elliott	Tested with 8.34beta
Win64 (Windows XP/2003)	Visual C++ 7.1			Some minor corrections not done yet but will be in time for 2.6.0...
Win16 (Windows 3.1)	Visual C++ 1.52			Some features are missing (OLE related classes, threads, ...) Borland C++ can't cope with ODBC, resources and new wxGrid class. Last working version is wxWindows 2.2.7, support for Win16 has been abandoned in 2.4.x. and all traces of Win16 code were removed after cvs BEFORE_WIN16_REMOVAL tag
Win16 (Windows 3.1)	Borland C++ 4.0/5.0		JS
Linux x86	wxGTK with gcc 2.7.2			Might work, but nobody uses it any more
	wxGTK with gcc 2.95--3.3		VZ, RR
	wxMotif			with LessTif 0.87
	wxMotif			with OpenMotif
	All BSD systems tests are for wxGTK using gcc.
FreeBSD	all versions between 3.2 and 5.1 x86		VZ
NetBSD	1.6, Alpha		VZ
OpenBSD	3.1, Alpha		VZ	Some problems with shared libraries, ok with static ones
Solaris	wxMotif with Sun CC 4.2		VZ	Thread support must be disabled on system with not MT-safe X11
	wxMotif with gcc
	wxGTK with Sun CC 4.2
	wxGTK with gcc
	wxGTK with Sun CC 5.0 and 6.1 (Solaris 7 and 8)		Jiri Mracek	You have to edit line 2079 in glib.h to fix GTK+ error
	wxGTK 2.5.1 with Sun CC 6.2 (Solaris 6 and 8)		Carl Godkin	Using GNU make
AIX	wxGTK 2.2.9 with gcc 3.0.4		Ian Brown	Shared library building doesn't work, use `--disable-shared`
	wxGTK 2.3.3 with xlC (AIX 4.3.2)		Irvin Probst	Both static and shared wxGTK libraries work, but only with static GTK+ and GLib
	wxMotif with xlC 3.1.4.0 (AIX 4.2)		Bernhard Eck	Some problems with OpenGL and native X server
	wxX11 2.4.2 with xlC 6 (AIX 5.1)		Swengtoo	In 2.4.2 you need to remove parentheses from the configure line containing AIX_CXX_LD; you should also use GNU make
HP-UX
	HP-UX 10.20 wxGTK with HP CC A.10.22 or HP aCC B3910B A.01.18		Staf Verhaegen	you need to add `-Aa -D_HPUX_SOURCE` to `CFLAGS`
	HP-UX 10.20 wxGTK with gcc		Julian Albo Garcia
	HP-UX 11i v1 PA-RISC, wxMotif 2.5.4, tried aCC A.03.57 and g++ 3.4.2		Ian, Mike	For a 32-bit PA-RISC build, if you want to use `SHLIB_PATH` to make it easier to use wxWidgets without installing it, then add `LDFLAGS=-Wl,+s` If you want to compile the test suite then aCC A.03.57 requires `CXX='aCC -AA'` aCC can also be used as the C compiler instead of cc by adding `CC='aCC -Ae'`
	HP-UX 11i v2 IA64, wxMotif 2.5.4, aCC A.06.00		Mike
IRIX
	Note that all entries use MIPSPro 7.3 compiler on IRIX 6.5 with `-mips3 -n32` flags if not mentioned otherwise. Also note that you need to set `LD_LIBRARYN32_PATH` under IRIX to run wxWindows programs.
	wxGTK 2.2		Ian	You may need to use `--disable-catch_segvs` if you get compiler error in utilsunx.cpp
	wxGTK 2.5		Carl Godkin
	wxMotif		David Marshall	On IRIX 6.5.6 (Indigo2, 64bit), with SGI Motif 1.2
	wxMotif		Ian
SCO UnixWare	wxGTK with gcc		William Suetholz	UnixWare 2.1.3 with UnixWare 7 compatibility PTF
DEC OSF/1	wxGTK with gcc		Fabrice Didierjean	OSF1 4.0 on Dec Alpha you may need to run configure with `--host=alpha-dec-osf switch`
OS/2				Starting with wxWidgets-2.9.0, wxWidgets supports Unicode builds only. Unfortunately, Unicode support is currently insufficient in all C libraries on OS/2, so only wxWidgets-2.8.x can be used.
OpenVMS	wxGTK with Compaq-C++ V6.2 (OpenVMS Alpha 7.3)		Jouk Jansen
Linux S/390	wxGTK with gcc 2.95.2		VZ	2.3.1+ only
Mac OS
	wxMac CFM (OS 8.6+)		SC	with Metrowerks CodeWarrior 8.3
	wxMac Mach-O (OS X)		SC	CodeWarrior or Apple DevTools (gcc)
	wxCocoa (OS X)		DE	Apple DevTools (gcc)