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-<h1 class="title">Installing wxPython 2.5 from Source</h1>
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+<h1 class="title">Installing wxPython 2.6 from Source</h1>
<p>This document will describe the few differences and additions to the
content in the <a class="reference" href="BUILD.html">BUILD</a> document for installing wxPython built from
source. Please follow the intstructions both in this file and in
path into the binaries by using the rpath option when configuring
wxWidgets. For example:</p>
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---enable-rpath=/opt/wx/2.5/lib \
+--enable-rpath=/opt/wx/2.6/lib \
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<p>SOLARIS NOTE: The --enable-rpath option may cause problems when
using wxGTK on Solaris when compiling wxPython as described below.
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<li><p class="first">In addition to building wxPython as described in BUILD.txt, you can
install it to Python's site-packages dir, as well as some scripts
-into the same bin dir used by Python by using this command:</p>
+into the same bin dir used by Python by using this command, plus
+whatever WXPORT, UNICODE, etc. settings you used for the initial
+build step:</p>
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-python2.3 setup.py install
+python2.3 setup.py install
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<p>If you would like to install to some place besides the prefix where
Python is installed, (such as to your home directory) then you can
Python Framework will then be installed in /Library/Frameworks. On
10.3 (Panther) Apple supplies the Python Framework as part of the
OS install, but it will be located in /System/Library/Frameworks
-instead. However, on Panther the site-pacakges dir is sym-linked
-to /Library/Python/2.3 so the wxPython pacakges will end up there,
+instead. However, on Panther the site-packages dir is sym-linked
+to /Library/Python/2.3 so the wxPython packages will end up there,
although they will still be visible from site-packages. If you are
building distributions of wxPython to be installed on other
machines be careful to install to /Library/Python/2.3. To
complicate things further, the Jaguar version, or a custom build
you do yourself will end up in /Library/Frameworks even on
Panther...</li>
-<li>You need to use pythonw at the command line or PythonLauncher app
-to run wxPython apps, otherwise the app will not be able to fully
-use the GUI display.</li>
+<li>You need to use pythonw at the command line or the PythonLauncher
+app to run wxPython apps, otherwise the app will not be able to
+fully use the GUI display.</li>
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"hybrid" when building wxWidgets and add "FINAL=1" to the setup.py
command line.</p>
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-<li><p class="first">Install wxPython like this:</p>
+<li><p class="first">Install wxPython like this. Remember to add any additional flags
+you added for the build such as UNICODE or USE_SWIG:</p>
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python setup.py install
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found at runtime by the extension modules without requiring that
they be installed on the PATH:</p>
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-copy %WXWIN%\lib\vc_dll\wx*h_*.dll c:\Python23\Lib\site-pacakges\wx
+copy %WXWIN%\lib\vc_dll\wx*h_*.dll c:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\wx
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