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[wxWidgets.git] / docs / x11 / install.txt

diff --git a/docs/x11/install.txt b/docs/x11/install.txt
index 3f0e8c245274aa70b8c6c71e851af6d68b73e5e3..b4b3083f46b02e2dd11a91c9a38ec0f48cf26ea8 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/x11/install.txt
+++ b/docs/x11/install.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-wxWindows 2.3 for X11 installation
-----------------------------------
+wxWidgets 2.6.1 for X11 installation
+------------------------------------

 
 IMPORTANT NOTE:
 
 
 IMPORTANT NOTE:
 


@@ -9,25 +9,25 @@ IMPORTANT NOTE:
   mailing wxwin-users or the author. Preferably, try to fix the
   problem first and then send a patch to the author.
 
   mailing wxwin-users or the author. Preferably, try to fix the
   problem first and then send a patch to the author.
 

-  When sending bug reports tell us what version of wxWindows you are 
+  When sending bug reports tell us what version of wxWidgets you are 

   using (including the beta) and what compiler on what system. One 
   using (including the beta) and what compiler on what system. One 

-  example: wxX11 2.3.4, gcc 2.95.4, Redhat 6.2
+  example: wxX11 2.6.1, gcc 2.95.4, Redhat 6.2

 
 First steps
 -----------
 
 
 First steps
 -----------
 

-- Download wxWindows-X-x.y.z.tgz, where x.y.z is the version number.
+- Download wxX11-x.y.z.tgz, where x.y.z is the version number.

   Download documentation in a preferred format, such as
   Download documentation in a preferred format, such as

-  wxWindows-HTML.zip or wxWindows-PDF.zip.
+  wxWidgets-HTML.zip or wxWidgets-PDF.zip.

 
 - Make a directory such as ~/wx and unarchive the files into this
   directory.
 
 - It is recommended that you install bison and flex; using yacc
   and lex may require tweaking of the makefiles. You also need
 
 - Make a directory such as ~/wx and unarchive the files into this
   directory.
 
 - It is recommended that you install bison and flex; using yacc
   and lex may require tweaking of the makefiles. You also need

-  libXpm if you want to have XPM support in wxWindows (recommended).
+  libXpm if you want to have XPM support in wxWidgets (recommended).

 
 

-- You can now use configure to build wxWindows and the samples.
+- You can now use configure to build wxWidgets and the samples.

 
   Using configure is the recommended way to build the library. If it doesn't
   work for you for whatever reason, please report it (together with detailed
 
   Using configure is the recommended way to build the library. If it doesn't
   work for you for whatever reason, please report it (together with detailed


@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ COMPILING USING CONFIGURE
 * The simplest case
 -------------------
 
 * The simplest case
 -------------------
 

-If you compile wxWindows on Linux for the first time and don't like to read 
+If you compile wxWidgets on Linux for the first time and don't like to read 

 install instructions just do (in the base dir):
 
 > ./configure --with-x11
 install instructions just do (in the base dir):
 
 > ./configure --with-x11


@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Afterwards you can continue with
 > ldconfig
 > exit
 
 > ldconfig
 > exit
 

-If you want to remove wxWindows on Unix you can do this:
+If you want to remove wxWidgets on Unix you can do this:

 
 > su <type root password>
 > make uninstall
 
 > su <type root password>
 > make uninstall


@@ -68,10 +68,10 @@ If you want to remove wxWindows on Unix you can do this:
 * The expert case
 -----------------
 
 * The expert case
 -----------------
 

-If you want to do some more serious cross-platform programming with wxWindows, 
+If you want to do some more serious cross-platform programming with wxWidgets, 

 such as for GTK and X11, you can now build two complete libraries and use 
 them concurrently. For this end, you have to create a directory for each build 
 such as for GTK and X11, you can now build two complete libraries and use 
 them concurrently. For this end, you have to create a directory for each build 

-of wxWindows - you may also want to create different versions of wxWindows
+of wxWidgets - you may also want to create different versions of wxWidgets

 and test them concurrently. Most typically, this would be a version configured 
 with --enable-debug_flag and one without. Note, that only one build can
 currently be installed, so you'd have to use local version of the library for
 and test them concurrently. Most typically, this would be a version configured 
 with --enable-debug_flag and one without. Note, that only one build can
 currently be installed, so you'd have to use local version of the library for


@@ -122,12 +122,12 @@ g++ myfoo.cpp `wx-config --libs --cxxflags` -o myfoo
 * General
 ---------
 
 * General
 ---------
 

-The Unix variants of wxWindows use GNU configure. If you have problems with
+The Unix variants of wxWidgets use GNU configure. If you have problems with

 your make use GNU make instead.
 
 your make use GNU make instead.
 

-If you have general problems with installation, see the wxWindows website at 
+If you have general problems with installation, see the wxWidgets website at 

 
 

-  http://www.wxwindows.org/
+  http://www.wxwidgets.org/

   
 for newest information. If you still don't have any success, please send a bug 
 report to one of our mailing lists (see my homepage) INCLUDING A DESCRIPTION OF 
   
 for newest information. If you still don't have any success, please send a bug 
 report to one of our mailing lists (see my homepage) INCLUDING A DESCRIPTION OF 


@@ -137,23 +137,17 @@ YOU USE AND WHAT ERROR WAS REPORTED. I know this has no effect, but I tried...
 * GUI libraries
 ---------------
 
 * GUI libraries
 ---------------
 

-wxWindows/X11 requires the X11 library to be installed on your system.
+wxWidgets/X11 requires the X11 library to be installed on your system.

   
 * Additional libraries
 ----------------------
 
   
 * Additional libraries
 ----------------------
 

-wxWindows/X11 requires a thread library and X libraries known to work with
+wxWidgets/X11 requires a thread library and X libraries known to work with

 threads.  This is the case on all commercial Unix-Variants and all
 Linux-Versions that are based on glibc 2 except RedHat 5.0 which is broken in
 threads.  This is the case on all commercial Unix-Variants and all
 Linux-Versions that are based on glibc 2 except RedHat 5.0 which is broken in

-many aspects. As of writing this, these Linux distributions have correct glibc
-2 support:
-
- - RedHat 5.1
- - Debian 2.0 and 3.0
- - Stampede
- - DLD 6.0
- - SuSE 6.0
- 
+many aspects.  As of writing this, virtually all Linux distributions have
++correct glibc 2 support.
+

 You can disable thread support by running 
 
 ./configure --disable-threads
 You can disable thread support by running 
 
 ./configure --disable-threads


@@ -167,44 +161,44 @@ exit
 ------------------------
 
 Please send comments and question about the OS/2 installation
 ------------------------
 
 Please send comments and question about the OS/2 installation

-to Andrea Venturoli <a.ventu@flashnet.it> and patches to
-the wxWindows mailing list.
+to Stefan Neis <Stefan.Neis@t-online.de> and patches to
+the wxWidgets mailing list.

 
 

-You'll need OS/2 Warp (4.00FP#6), X-Free86/2 (3.3.3 or newer), 
-emx (0.9d fix 1), flex (2.5.4), yacc (1.8), unix like shell,
-e.g. korn shell (5.2.13), Autoconf (2.13),  GNU file utilities (3.6),
-GNU text utilities (1.3), GNU shell utilites (1.12), m4 (1.4), 
-sed (2.05), grep (2.0), Awk (3.0.3), GNU Make (3.76.1).
+In the following list, the version numbers indicate the configuration that
+was actually used by myself, newer version should cause no problems and
+even older ones are expected to work most of the time.

 
 

-Open an OS/2 prompt and switch to the directory above.
-First set some global environment variables we need:
+You'll need OS/2 Warp (4.51) or eCS(1.0), X-Free86/2 (3.3.6 or newer),
+emx (0.9d fix 4), flex (2.5.4), yacc (1.8) or bison (1.25),
+a Unix like shell (pdksh-5.2.14 or ash), Autoconf (2.57), GNU file
+utilities (3.13), GNU text utilities (1.19), GNU shell utilites (1.12),
+m4 (1.4), sed (2.05), grep (2.0), Awk (3.0.3), GNU Make (3.75).
+
+Preferably, you should have Posix/2 installed and C(PLUS)_INCLUDE_PATH and
+LIBRARY_PATH set up accordingly, however, wxGTK will even work without it.
+Presence of Posix/2 will be auto-detected.

 
 

-SET CXXFLAGS=-Zmtd -D__ST_MT_ERRNO__
-SET CFLAGS=-Zmtd -D__ST_MT_ERRNO__
-SET OSTYPE=OS2X              
-SET COMSPEC=sh
+Open an OS/2 prompt and switch to the directory above.
+Set MAKESHELL (and depending on your installation also INSTALL, for me
+it tends to try to use the system's tcpip\pcomos\install.exe which causes
+problems...) to a Unix like shell, e.g.
+SET MAKESHELL=ash

 
 

-Notice you can choose whatever you want, if you don't like OS2X.
+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 autoconf in the main directory and in the samples, demos
-and utils subdirectory. This will generate the OS/2 specific
-versions of the configure scripts. Now run
-    configure --with-x11
-as described above.
+Notice that the delivered configure scripts are fully OS/2 aware, so you
+can simply run
+    ash -c "configure --with-x11"
+and make and possibly make install as described above.

 
 To verify X11 installation, configure will try to compile a
 sample program that requires X headers/libraries to be either
 available via C_INCLUDE_PATH and LIBRARY_PATH or you need to
 explicitly set CFLAGS prior to running configure.
 
 
 To verify X11 installation, configure will try to compile a
 sample program that requires X headers/libraries to be either
 available via C_INCLUDE_PATH and LIBRARY_PATH or you need to
 explicitly set CFLAGS prior to running configure.
 

-If you have pthreads library installed, it will be autodetected
-and the library will be compiled with thread-support.
-
-Note that configure assumes your flex will generate files named
-"lexyy.c", not "lex.yy.c". If you have a version which does
-generate "lex.yy.c", you need to manually change the generated
-makefile.
-

 * Building wxX11 on SGI
 -----------------------
 
 * Building wxX11 on SGI
 -----------------------
 


@@ -274,6 +268,10 @@ The following options handle the kind of library you want to build.
 
        --disable-shared        Do not create shared libraries.
 
 
        --disable-shared        Do not create shared libraries.
 

+    --enable-monolithic     Build wxWidgets as single library instead
+                            of as several smaller libraries (which is
+                            the default since wxWidgets 2.5.0).
+

        --disable-optimise      Do not optimise the code. Can
                                sometimes be useful for debugging
                                and is required on some architectures
        --disable-optimise      Do not optimise the code. Can
                                sometimes be useful for debugging
                                and is required on some architectures


@@ -312,7 +310,7 @@ The following options handle the kind of library you want to build.
                                such as gdb (or its many frontends).
 
        --enable-debug_flag     Define __DEBUG__ and __WXDEBUG__ when
                                such as gdb (or its many frontends).
 
        --enable-debug_flag     Define __DEBUG__ and __WXDEBUG__ when

-                               compiling. This enable wxWindows' very
+                               compiling. This enable wxWidgets' very

                                useful internal debugging tricks (such
                                as automatically reporting illegal calls)
                                to work. Note that program and library
                                useful internal debugging tricks (such
                                as automatically reporting illegal calls)
                                to work. Note that program and library


@@ -323,11 +321,11 @@ The following options handle the kind of library you want to build.
 -----------------
 
 Many of the configure options have been thoroughly tested
 -----------------
 
 Many of the configure options have been thoroughly tested

-in wxWindows snapshot 6, but not yet all (ODBC not).
+in wxWidgets snapshot 6, but not yet all (ODBC not).

 
 When producing an executable that is linked statically with wxX11
 you'll be surprised at its immense size. This can sometimes be
 
 When producing an executable that is linked statically with wxX11
 you'll be surprised at its immense size. This can sometimes be

-drastically reduced by removing features from wxWindows that 
+drastically reduced by removing features from wxWidgets that 

 are not used in your program. The most relevant such features
 are
 
 are not used in your program. The most relevant such features
 are
 


@@ -336,6 +334,8 @@ are
        --without-libjpeg       Disables JPEG image format code.
        
 {      --without-odbc          Disables ODBC code. Not yet. }
        --without-libjpeg       Disables JPEG image format code.
        
 {      --without-odbc          Disables ODBC code. Not yet. }

+
+    --without-expat         Disable XML classes based on Expat parser.

        
         --disable-resources     Disables the use of *.wxr type
                                resources.
        
         --disable-resources     Disables the use of *.wxr type
                                resources.


@@ -367,6 +367,10 @@ Apart from disabling certain features you can very often "strip"
 the program of its debugging information resulting in a significant
 reduction in size.
 
 the program of its debugging information resulting in a significant
 reduction in size.
 

+Please see the output of "./configure --help" for comprehensive list
+of all configurable options.
+
+

 * Compiling
 -----------
 
 * Compiling
 -----------
 


@@ -392,7 +396,7 @@ password) and type
 
         make install   
 
 
         make install   
 

-You can remove any traces of wxWindows by typing
+You can remove any traces of wxWidgets by typing

 
         make uninstall
        
 
         make uninstall
        


@@ -428,8 +432,14 @@ clean:
 This is certain to become the standard way unless we decide
 to stick to tmake.
 
 This is certain to become the standard way unless we decide
 to stick to tmake.
 

+If your application uses only some of wxWidgets libraries, you can
+specify required libraries when running wx-config. For example,
+`wx-config --libs=html,core` will only output link command to link
+with libraries required by core GUI classes and wxHTML classes. See
+the manual for more information on the libraries.
+

 2) The other way creates a project within the source code 
 2) The other way creates a project within the source code 

-directories of wxWindows. For this endeavour, you'll need
+directories of wxWidgets. For this endeavour, you'll need

 GNU autoconf version 2.14 and add an entry to your Makefile.in
 to the bottom of the configure.in script and run autoconf
 and configure before you can type make.
 GNU autoconf version 2.14 and add an entry to your Makefile.in
 to the bottom of the configure.in script and run autoconf
 and configure before you can type make.


@@ -446,7 +456,7 @@ and configure before you can type make.
   # makewxx11
   # Sets permissions (in case we extracted wxX11 from zip files)
   # and makes wxX11.
   # makewxx11
   # Sets permissions (in case we extracted wxX11 from zip files)
   # and makes wxX11.

-  # Call from top-level wxWindows directory.
+  # Call from top-level wxWidgets directory.

   # Note that this uses standard (but commonly-used) configure options;
   # if you're feeling brave, you may wish to compile with threads:
   # if they're not supported by the target platform, they will be disabled
   # Note that this uses standard (but commonly-used) configure options;
   # if you're feeling brave, you may wish to compile with threads:
   # if they're not supported by the target platform, they will be disabled


@@ -458,7 +468,7 @@ and configure before you can type make.
   -------:x-----Cut here-----:x-----
 
   This script will build wxX11 using shared libraries. If you want to build
   -------:x-----Cut here-----:x-----
 
   This script will build wxX11 using shared libraries. If you want to build

-  a static wxWindows library, use --disable-shared.
+  a static wxWidgets library, use --disable-shared.

 
 Troubleshooting
 ---------------
 
 Troubleshooting
 ---------------


@@ -498,5 +508,4 @@ compiler and the error message(s) to the wxwin-developers mailing list at:
 
     wx-dev@lists.wxwindows.org
 
 
     wx-dev@lists.wxwindows.org
 

-Julian Smart, Robert Roebling and Vadim Zeitlin, February 2002.