-wxWindows 2.3 for X11 installation
-------------------------------------
+wxWidgets 2.5 for X11 installation
+----------------------------------
IMPORTANT NOTE:
osname.txt for your platform if it exists) carefully before
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
- example: wxX11 2.3.0, egcs 1.1.1, Redhat 5.0
+ example: wxX11 2.5.2, gcc 2.95.4, Redhat 6.2
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
- 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
- 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
COMPILING USING CONFIGURE
=========================
-* The most simple 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
> 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
* 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
-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 that purpose.
+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
+that purpose.
+
For building three versions (one GTK, one X11 and a debug version of the GTK
source) you'd do this:
md buildx11
cd buildx11
-../configure --with-x11 --with-universal
+../configure --with-x11
make
cd ..
make
cd ..
-* The most simple errors
-------------------------
-
-You get errors during compilation: The reason is that you probably have a broken
-compiler, which includes almost everything that is called gcc. If you use gcc 2.8
-you have to disable optimisation as the compiler will give up with an internal
-compiler error.
+* The simplest errors
+---------------------
-If there is just any way for you to use egcs, use egcs. We cannot fix gcc.
+You get errors during compilation: The reason is that you probably have a
+broken compiler. GCC 2.8 and earlier versions and egcs are likely to cause
+problems due to incomplete support for C++ and optimisation bugs. Best to use
+GCC 2.95 or later.
-You get immediate segfault when starting any sample or application: This is either
-due to having compiled the library with different flags or options than your program -
-typically you might have the __WXDEBUG__ option set for the library but not for your
-program - or due to using a broken compiler (and its optimisation) such as GCC 2.8.
+You get immediate segfault when starting any sample or application: This is
+either due to having compiled the library with different flags or options than
+your program - typically you might have the __WXDEBUG__ option set for the
+library but not for your program - or due to using a compiler with optimisation
+bugs.
-* The most simple program
--------------------------
+* The simplest program
+----------------------
-Now create your super-application myfoo.app and compile anywhere with
+Now create your super-application myfoo.cpp and compile anywhere with
-g++ myfoo.cpp `wx-config --libs --cflags` -o myfoo
+g++ myfoo.cpp `wx-config --libs --cxxflags` -o myfoo
* General
------------------------
+---------
-The Unix variants of wxWindows use GNU configure. If you have problems with your
-make use GNU make instead.
+The Unix variants of wxWidgets use GNU configure. If you have problems with
+your make use GNU make instead.
-If you have general problems with installation, read my homepage at
+If you have general problems with installation, see the wxWidgets website at
- http://wesley.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~wxxt
+ 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
-YOUR SYSTEM AND YOUR PROBLEM, SUCH AS YOUR VERSION OF GTK, WXGTK, WHAT DISTRIBUTION
+YOUR SYSTEM AND YOUR PROBLEM, SUCH AS YOUR VERSION OF X, WHAT DISTRIBUTION
YOU USE AND WHAT ERROR WAS REPORTED. I know this has no effect, but I tried...
* GUI libraries
------------------------
-
-wxWindows/X11 requires the X11 library to be installed on your system. As
-an alternative, you may also use the free library "lesstif" which implements
-most of the X11 API without the licence restrictions of X11.
-
-You can get the newest version of the Lesstif from the lesstif homepage at:
+---------------
- http://www.lesstif.org
+wxWidgets/X11 requires the X11 library to be installed on your system.
* Additional libraries
------------------------
+----------------------
+
+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
+many aspects. As of writing this, virtually all Linux distributions have
++correct glibc 2 support.
-wxWindows/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 many aspects. As of writing
-this, these Linux distributions have correct glibc 2 support:
-
- - RedHat 5.1
- - Debian 2.0
- - Stampede
- - DLD 6.0
- - SuSE 6.0
-
You can disable thread support by running
-./configure "--disable-threads"
+./configure --disable-threads
make
su <type root password>
make install
ldconfig
exit
-NB: DO NOT COMPILE WXGTK WITH GCC AND THREADS, SINCE ALL PROGRAMS WILL
-CRASH UPON START-UP! Just always use egcs and be happy.
-
-* Building wxGTK on OS/2
---------------------------
+* Building wxX11 on OS/2
+------------------------
Please send comments and question about the OS/2 installation
-to Andrea Venturoli <a.ventu@flashnet.it> and patches to
-the wxWindows mailing list.
-
-You'll need OS/2 Warp (4.00FP#6), X-Free86/2 (3.3.3 or newer),
-Lesstif (0.89.1 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).
-
-Open an OS/2 prompt and switch to the directory above.
-First set some global environment variables we need:
+to Stefan Neis <Stefan.Neis@t-online.de> and patches to
+the wxWidgets mailing list.
-SET CXXFLAGS=-Zmtd -D__ST_MT_ERRNO__
-SET CFLAGS=-Zmtd -D__ST_MT_ERRNO__
-SET OSTYPE=OS2X
-SET COMSPEC=sh
+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.
-Notice you can choose whatever you want, if you don't like OS2X.
+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).
-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.
+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.
-To verify Lesstif installation, configure will try to compile a
+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
+
+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.
+
+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.
-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
---------------------------
+-----------------------
Using the SGI native compilers, it is recommended that you
also set CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS before running configure. These
The SGI native compiler support has only been tested on Irix 6.5.
* Create your configuration
------------------------------
+---------------------------
Usage:
- ./configure options
+ ./configure [options]
If you want to use system's C and C++ compiler,
set environment variables CXX and CC as
% setenv CC cc
% setenv CXX CC
- % ./configure options
+ % ./configure [options]
to see all the options please use:
* General options
--------------------
+-----------------
Given below are the commands to change the default behaviour,
i.e. if it says "--disable-threads" it means that threads
are enabled by default.
-Many of the configure options have been thoroughly tested
-in wxWindows snapshot 6, but not yet all (ODBC not).
-
You have to add --with-x11 on platforms, where X11 is
not the default (on Linux, configure will default to GTK).
- --without-gtk Don't use the GIMP ToolKit (GTK).
-
- --with-x11 Use X11.
-
- --with-universal Needs to be specified with X11.
+ --with-x11 Use X11.
The following options handle the kind of library you want to build.
--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
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
options.
* Feature Options
--------------------
+-----------------
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 wxGTK
+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
--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.
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
--------------
+-----------
-The following must be done in the base directory (e.g. ~/wxGTK
-or ~/wxWin or whatever)
+The following must be done in the base directory (e.g. ~/wxX11
+or whatever)
Now the makefiles are created (by configure) and you can compile
the library by typing:
make install
-You can remove any traces of wxWindows by typing
+You can remove any traces of wxWidgets by typing
make uninstall
If you want to save disk space by removing unnecessary
object-files:
- make clean
+ make clean
in the various directories will do the work for you.
* Creating a new Project
---------------------------
+------------------------
1) The first way uses the installed libraries and header files
automatically using wx-config
-g++ myfoo.cpp `wx-config --libs` `wx-config --cflags` -o myfoo
+g++ myfoo.cpp `wx-config --libs` `wx-config --cxxflags` -o myfoo
Using this way, a make file for the minimal sample would look
like this
$(CXX) -o minimal minimal.o `wx-config --libs`
minimal.o: minimal.cpp mondrian.xpm
- $(CXX) `wx-config --cflags` -c minimal.cpp -o minimal.o
+ $(CXX) `wx-config --cxxflags` -c minimal.cpp -o minimal.o
clean:
rm -f *.o minimal
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
-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.
* Further notes by Julian Smart
----------------------------------
+-------------------------------
- You may find the following script useful for compiling wxX11,
especially if installing from zips (which don't preserve file
# 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
# anyhow
# -- Julian Smart
chmod a+x configure config.sub config.guess
- ./configure --with-shared --with-x11 --with-universal --without-gtk --with-debug_flag --with-debug_info --enable-debug --without-threads --without-sockets --without-odbc
+ ./configure --with-x11 --with-shared --with-debug_flag --with-debug_info --enable-debug --without-threads --without-sockets --without-odbc
make
-------: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
---------------
-- Solaris compilation with gcc: if the compiler has problems with the variable argument
- functions, try putting the gcc fixinclude file paths early in the include
- path.
+- Solaris compilation with gcc: if the compiler has problems with the variable
+ argument functions, try putting the gcc fixinclude file paths early in the
+ include path.
- If you operator-related compile errors or strange memory problems
(for example in deletion of string arrays), set wxUSE_GLOBAL_MEMORY_OPERATORS
recommended to use --with-debug_info and --with-debug_flag configure
switches while developing your application. To compile in non-debug
mode, remove the -D__WXDEBUG__ switch in make.env (or if using the
- configure system, change --with-debug_flag to --without_debug_flag
+ configure system, change --with-debug_flag to --without-debug_flag
and --with-debug_info to --without-debug_info in the makewxx11
script).
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