To compile wxWidgets samples and applications using the VC++ 5.0 or 6.0 IDE (having compiled wxWidgets using the makefile or project file provided), the following steps and settings should be used.

Steps

1. Create a new WIN32 Application project.
2. Add the .cpp and .rc files for your project.
3. Apply the settings listed below to the project, replacing c:\wx2 with your wxWidgets installation path.

Settings for wxWidgets 2.2

General

The Output files and Intermediate files directory fields should be Debug for the Debug configuration, and Release for the Release configuration.

Debug: General

The Executable for debug sessions field should be altered to be the path and name you'd expect (it may have generated a different name).

C/C++: Preprocessor

The Preprocessor definitions field should contain the following symbols for Debug:

WIN32,_DEBUG,_WINDOWS,__WINDOWS__,__WXMSW__,__WXDEBUG__,WXDEBUG=1,
__WIN32__,WINVER=0x0400,STRICT

and these for Release:

NDEBUG,WIN32,_WINDOWS,__WINDOWS__,__WXMSW__,__WIN32__,
WINVER=0x0400,STRICT

The Additional include directories field should contain the following:

c:\wx2\include,c:\wx2\contrib\include

(and of course any other directories you wish to use in your project).

C/C++: Precompiled Headers

The Not using precompiled headers or Automatic use of precompiled headers button should be selected.

C/C++: Code Generation

The Use run-time library control should be set to Debug Multithreaded DLL (Debug) or Multithreaded DLL (Release).

Link: Input

The Object/library modules field should contain:

kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib
ole32.lib oleaut32.lib uuid.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib comctl32.lib rpcrt4.lib wsock32.lib
winmm.lib wxmsw25d.lib wxbase25d.lib wxpngd.lib wxzlibd.lib wxjpegd.lib wxtiffd.lib

for the Debug configuration and

kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib
ole32.lib oleaut32.lib uuid.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib comctl32.lib rpcrt4.lib wsock32.lib
winmm.lib wxmsw25.lib wxbase25.lib wxpng.lib wxzlib.lib wxjpeg.lib wxtiff.lib

for the Release configuration.

The Ignore libraries field should contain:

libcd.lib,libcid.lib,msvcrt.lib

for the Debug configuration and

libc.lib,libci.lib,msvcrtd.lib

for the Release configuration.

The Additional library path field should contain

c:\wx2\lib,c:\wx2\contrib\lib

for both Debug and Release configurations.

Resources

Select your .rc file. The Additional resource include directories field should contain:

c:\wx2\include;c:\wx2\contrib\include

Settings for wxWidgets 1.68

Debug: General

The Executable for debug sessions field should be altered to be the path and name you'd expect (it may have generated a different name).

General

The Output directories fields can be made blank if you want the objects and executable to be created in the project directory and not a subdirectory.

C/C++: Preprocessor

The Preprocessor definitions field should contain the following symbols:

WIN32,_DEBUG,_WINDOWS,wx_msw,DEBUG=1,WINVER=0x0400,STRICT

The Additional include directories field should contain the following:

../../include/base,../../include/msw

(and of course any other directories you wish to use in your project).

C/C++: Precompiled Headers

The Not using precompiled headers or Automatic use of precompiled headers button should be selected (I can't find a way of using the wxWidgets PCH file).

C/C++: Code Generation

The Use run-time library control should be set to Multithreaded DLL. This sets the compiler switch to /MD to match the wxWidgets makefile.

Link: Input

The Object/library modules field should contain:

kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib
shell32.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib comctl32.lib
../../lib/wx.lib ../../src/msw/dummy.obj

The Ignore libraries field should contain:

libcd.lib,libcid.lib

Resources

Select your .rc file. The Additional resource include directories field should contain:

..\..\include\msw;..\..\contrib\fafa