Status: DRAFT
Author: Kevin Ollivier
Date: 2/13/04
-License: wxWidgets License
+Licence: wxWindows Licence
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Supporting many different platforms can be a difficult challenge. The
supports all these formats, wxWidgets developers need only update one file -
the Bakefile, and it handles the rest. But Bakefile isn't specific to
wxWidgets in any way - you can use Bakefile for your own projects, too. This
-brief tutorial will take a look at how to do that.
+brief tutorial will take a look at how to do that.
Note that this tutorial assumes that you are familiar with how to build
software using one of the supported Bakefile makefile systems, that you have
-- Getting Started --
First, you'll need to install Bakefile. You can always find the latest version
-for download online at http://bakefile.sf.net. A binary installer is provided
+for download online at http://www.bakefile.org. A binary installer is provided
for Windows users, while users of Unix-based operating systems (OS) will need
-to unpack the tarball and run configure && make && make install. (Packages for
-some distros are also available, check http://bakefile.sf.net for details.)
+to unpack the tarball and run configure && make && make install. (binary
+packages for some Linux distributions are also available, check
+http://www.bakefile.org/download.html for details).
-- Setting Up Your wx Build Environment --
<include file="presets/wx.bkl"/>
- <exe id="minimal" template="wx">
- <app-type>gui</app-type>
+ <exe id="minimal" template="wxgui">
<debug-info>on</debug-info>
<runtime-libs>dynamic</runtime-libs>
-
+
<sources>minimal.cpp</sources>
-
+
<wx-lib>core</wx-lib>
<wx-lib>base</wx-lib>
</exe>
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It's a complete sample ready to be baked, so go into the directory mentioned
-above and run the following command:
+above and run the following command:
On Windows:
bakefile -f msvc -I.. minimal.bkl
autoconf GNU autoconf Makefile.in files
borland Borland C/C++ makefiles
- cbuilderx C++ Builder X project files
dmars Digital Mars makefiles
dmars_smake Digital Mars makefiles for SMAKE
gnu GNU toolchain makefiles (Unix)
is beyond the scope of this tutorial, but a book on the subject can be found
online at: http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/. Note that you do not need to
use automake when you are using Bakefile, just autoconf, as Bakefile
-essentially does the same thing as automake.
+essentially does the same thing as automake.
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-- Targets --
common to have to use settings from another project; for example, any project
that uses wxWidgets will need to build using the same flags and options that
wxWidgets was built with. Bakefile makes these things easier by allowing users
-to create Bakefile templates, where you can store common settings.
+to create Bakefile templates, where you can store common settings.
Bakefile ships with a couple of templates, found in the 'presets' subfolder of
your Bakefile installation. The "simple.bkl" template adds a DEBUG option to
In order to build the software in debug mode.
-To simplify the building of wxWidgets-based projects, wxWidgets contains a a
+To simplify the building of wxWidgets-based projects, wxWidgets contains a
set of Bakefiles that automatically configure your build system to be
compatible with wxWidgets. As you'll notice in the sample above, the sample
-project uses the wx template. Once you've included the template, your software
-will now build with wxWidgets support.
+project uses the "wxgui" template. Once you've included the template, your software
+will now build as a GUI application with wxWidgets support.
+
+There's also "wxconsole" template for building console-based wxWidgets applications
+and "wx" template that doesn't specify application type (GUI or console) and can be
+used e.g. for building libraries that use wxWidgets.
But since the wx presets don't exist in the Bakefile presets subfolder,
Bakefile needs to know where to find these presets. The "-I" command adds the
-wxpresets folder to Bakefile's search path.
+wxpresets folder to Bakefile's search path.
If you regularly include Bakefile presets in places other than the Bakefile
presets folder, then you can set the BAKEFILE_PATHS environment variable so
Lastly, it's important to note that the Win 32 wx project Bakefiles come with
some common build options that users can use when building the software. These
-options are:
+options are:
Option Values Description
------ ------ -------------
+ WX_MONOLITHIC 0(default),1 Set this to 1 if you built wx
+ as a monolithic library
WX_SHARED 0(default),1 Specify static or dynamic wx libs
- WX_UNICODE 0(defualt),1 Use ANSI or UNICODE wx libs
+ WX_UNICODE 0(default),1 Use ANSI or UNICODE wx libs
WX_DEBUG 0,1(default) Use release or debug wx libs
*WX_VERSION 25,26(default) Specify version of wx libs
*Note: Any version of wx past 2.5 will be allowed here, so 25/26 is not a
-complete list of values.
+complete list of values.
These options are not needed under Unix as wx-config can be used to specify
these options.
-- bakefile_gen - Automated Bakefile Scripts --
If you have a large project, you can imagine that the calls to Bakefile would
-get more and more complex and unwieldly to manage. For this reason, a script
+get more and more complex and unwieldy to manage. For this reason, a script
called bakefile_gen was created, which reads in a .bkgen file that provides
all the commands needed to build all the makefiles your project supports. A
discussion of how to use bakefile_gen is beyond the scope of this tutorial,
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