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
(Win 9x/NT/2K)		 Visual C++ 4.2/5.x/6.0OkVZ, JSProject files are provided for all versions except 4.2
Borland C++ 5.0Ok
Also works with free command line Borland C++ 5.5
Mingw32OkGRG, VZCross 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
CygwinOkStephane Junique
Andrea Venturoli		tested under NT 4, cross-compiling for mingw also works
Watcom C++ 10AlmostJSTested with 10.6: works, but wxImage seems to be broken
no support for JPEG, TIFF or OpenGL
Watcom C++ 11OkMarkus NeiferTested with 11.0b under win95
Symantec C++Unknown
Win16
(Windows 3.1)		 Visual C++ 1.52Ok
 Some features are missing (OLE related classes, threads, ...)
Borland C++ can't cope with ODBC, resources and new wxGrid class
Borland C++ 4.0/5.0OkJS
Linux x86 wxGTK with gcc 2.7.2Unknown
Should work, but nobody uses it any more
wxGTK with egcs 1.1.1OkVZ, RR
wxGTK with gcc 2.95Ok
wxMotif with egcs 1.1.1Ok
with LessTif 0.87
wxMotif with gcc 2.95Ok
with OpenMotif
FreeBSD wxGTK with gccOkVZLimited thread support on older systems
Solaris wxMotif with Sun CC 4.2OkVZThread support must be disabled on system with not MT-safe X11
wxMotif with gccOk
wxGTK with Sun CC 4.2OkShiv Shankar Ramakrishnan
wxGTK with gccOk
wxGTK with Sun CC 5.0 and 6.1 (Solaris 7 and 8)OkJiri MracekYou have to edit line 2079 in glib.h to fix GTK+ error
AIX wxGTK with AIX CCUnknown
wxMotif with xlC 3.1.4.0 (AIX 4.2)Ok Bernhard Eck Some problems with OpenGL and native X server
HP-UX 10.20 wxGTK with HP CC A.10.22
or HP aCC B3910B A.01.18 		OkStaf Verhaegen you need to add -Aa -D_HPUX_SOURCE to CFLAGS
wxGTK with gccOkJulian Albo Garcia
IRIX wxGTKOk
You may need to use --disable-catch_segvs if you get compiler error in utilsunx.cpp
wxMotif with MIPSPro 7.30OkDavid MarshallOn IRIX 6.5.6 (Indigo2, 64bit), with SGI Motif 1.2
wxMotif with "CC -mips3 -n32"OkIanYou need to set LD_LIBRARYN32_PATH
SCO UnixWare wxGTK with gccOkWilliam SuetholzUnixWare 2.1.3 with UnixWare 7 compatibility PTF
DEC OSF/1 wxGTK with gccOkFabrice DidierjeanOSF1 4.0 on Dec Alpha
you may need to run configure with --host=alpha-dec-osf switch
OS/2 VisualAge 3.0/4.0Not yetDW OS/2 port is work in progress...
EMXNot yetSN
wxGTK with EMXOkSNconfigure scripts need to be regenerated with OS/2 port of autoconf
wxMotif with EMXOkSNwith LessTif 0.89; configure scripts need to be regenerated with OS/2 port of autoconf
OpenVMS wxGTK with Compaq-C++ V6.2 (OpenVMS Alpha 7.3)OkJouk Jansen
Linux S/390 wxGTK with gcc 2.95.2OkVZ2.3.1+ only

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