+
+Compilation using EMX
+---------------------
+
+In addition to EMX-0.9d you will need a rather complete Unix-like
+environment, starting with a shell (e.g. ash) and most of the
+GNU file/text/shell utilities, but also flex, bison, sed, grep, awk
+and GNU make. Particularly note that uname is relevant to get the
+configure script working - the one from GNU shell utilities 1.12
+does work (check that uname -s returns "OS/2" and uname -m returns "i386"
+and you should be mostly fine.
+
+The first thing to do is to decide on a build directory. You can either
+do in-tree builds or you can do the build in a directory separated from
+the source directory. The later has the advantage, that it is much easier
+to compile and maintain several ports of wxWidgets on OS/2 - if you are
+developping cross-platform applications you might want to compile (and
+update) e.g. wxGTK or wxX11 as well.
+
+In the following, let's assume you decided to build in
+\wx\wxWidgets-2.8.0\build\pm. Now we need to set some environment
+variables, namely MAKESHELL (to a Unix like shell, let's assume ash)
+and INSTALL (to point to the install script. If you omit this, configure
+might find something like the system's tcpip\pcomos\install.exe which will
+not do the thing you want), e.g.
+SET MAKESHELL=ash
+SET INSTALL=/wx/wxWidgets-2.8.0/install-sh -c
+
+Be warned that depending on the precise version of your make, the
+variable that needs to be set might be MAKE_SHELL instead of MAKESHELL.
+If you have a really deficient version of GNU make, it might even be
+necessary to set SHELL or even COMSPEC to a unix like shell as well.
+
+Now run the provided configure script by executing e.g.
+`ash -c "../../configure \
+ --prefix=directory_where_you_want_wxWidgets_to_be_installed"'
+from within the build directory (the relative path might be different
+depending on the build directory you selected).
+If you are already running some unix-like shell and not cmd, you may
+of course ommit the `ash -c' part in the above command.
+This will create a whole directory structure containing lib and sample
+directories which each essentially contain a suitable makefile.
+
+Calling `make' now should start a compile run which hopefully ends
+with a library being placed in the lib subdirectory.
+
+Now you can change in the samples subdirectory and call make to compile
+all samples, however currently not all will work on OS/2, so you might
+prefer to change into the directory of a specific sample
+(e.g. samples\minimal) and call make there to just build this one example.
+Essentially, each sample that's not working indicates an area, where help
+in porting wxWidgets to OS/2 would be appreciated.
+
+Finally, you can run `make install' which should install wxWidgets to
+the desired place.
+Note that we also install the wx-config script which wants to help you
+compiling your own applications, e.g. `wx-config --cxxflags` will emit the
+flags that are needed for compiling source code which includes wxWidgets
+headers, `wx-config --libs` will emit the flags needed for linking against
+wxWidgets (wx-config is assuming you are calling it from a unix-like shell!).
+
+For building a DLL, the only supported way currently is to first build the
+static library and then use Andrew Zabolotny's dllar.cmd. However, this
+works quite nicely.
+
+Finally, if you also want to build a different port, e.g. wxGTK, you
+essentially have to use the procedure described above, the only difference
+being that you have to pass a switch to configure indicating which port
+to build. If you do not do this in a separate build directory (e.g.
+\wxWidgets-2.8.0\build\gtk), you'll have to do a `make clean' first.
+The magical switches that have to be passed to configure for the various
+ports are --with-gtk (wxGTK), --with-motif (wxMotif), --with-x11 (wxX11),
+and --disable-gui (wxBase). Note that contrary to the native, PM based
+OS/2 port, all of those ports work slightly better with POSIX/2's cExt
+library. If include and library path include the suitable paths, -lcExt
+is automatically appended to the linker flags by the configure script.
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