Platforms supported by wxWindows 2.x

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 mean that the platform is not supported, but just that wxWindows hasn't been tested on it recently (the table is being updated for wxWindows 2.1.14 beta currently).

See also the daily rebuilds page for some of the platforms mentioned below.

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 (Windows 9x/NT) 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
Symantec C++ Unknown

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
Borland C++ 4.0/5.0 JS

Linux wxGTK with gcc 2.7.2 Unknown
Should work, but nobody uses it any more
wxGTK with egcs 1.1.1 VZ, RR

wxGTK with gcc 2.95

wxMotif with egcs 1.1.1
with LessTif 0.87

FreeBSD wxGTK with gcc VZ Limited thread support on older systems

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 Shiv Shankar Ramakrishnan

wxGTK with gcc

AIX wxGTK with AIX CC Unknown

wxMotif with xlC (AIX 4.2) Bernhard Eck Some problems with OpenGL and native X server

HP-UX 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
wxGTK with gcc Unknown

IRIX wxGTK
You may need to use --disable-catch_segvs if you get compiler
error in utilsunx.cpp
wxMotif with MIPSPro 7.30 David Marshall On IRIX 6.5.6 (Indigo2, 64bit), with SGI Motif 1.2

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 VisualAge 3.0/4.0 Not yet DW OS/2 port is work in progress...
EMX Not yet SN
wxGTK with EMX SN configure scripts need to be regenerated with OS/2 port of autoconf
wxMotif with EMX SN with LessTif 0.89; configure scripts need to be regenerated with OS/2 port of autoconf

Contact Vadim Zeitlin with any comments/suggestions.

wxWindows 2 Platforms
Platform	Compiler	Status	Tested by	Remarks
Win32 (Windows 9x/NT)	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
	Symantec C++
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
Win16 (Windows 3.1)	Borland C++ 4.0/5.0		JS
Linux	wxGTK with gcc 2.7.2			Should work, but nobody uses it any more
	wxGTK with egcs 1.1.1		VZ, RR
	wxGTK with gcc 2.95
	wxMotif with egcs 1.1.1			with LessTif 0.87
FreeBSD	wxGTK with gcc		VZ	Limited thread support on older systems
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		Shiv Shankar Ramakrishnan
	wxGTK with gcc
AIX	wxGTK with AIX CC
AIX	wxMotif with xlC (AIX 4.2)		Bernhard Eck	Some problems with OpenGL and native X server
HP-UX	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	wxGTK with gcc
IRIX	wxGTK			You may need to use `--disable-catch_segvs` if you get compiler error in utilsunx.cpp
IRIX	wxMotif with MIPSPro 7.30		David Marshall	On IRIX 6.5.6 (Indigo2, 64bit), with SGI Motif 1.2
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	VisualAge 3.0/4.0		DW	OS/2 port is work in progress...
	EMX		SN	OS/2 port is work in progress...
	wxGTK with EMX		SN	configure scripts need to be regenerated with OS/2 port of autoconf
	wxMotif with EMX		SN	with LessTif 0.89; configure scripts need to be regenerated with OS/2 port of autoconf