-wxWindows 2.0 for Motif installation
+wxWindows 2.3 for Motif installation
------------------------------------
-IMPORTANT NOTE: If you experience problems installing, please re-read this
- instructions and other related files (todo.txt, bugs.txt and
- 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.
+IMPORTANT NOTE:
+
+ If you experience problems installing, please re-read these
+ instructions and other related files (todo.txt, bugs.txt and
+ 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
+ using (including the beta) and what compiler on what system. One
+ example: wxMotif 2.3.0, egcs 1.1.1, Redhat 5.0
+
+First steps
+-----------
- Prerequisites: Motif 1.2 or above, or Lesstif
(not yet tested). Motif 2.0 and above may also be suitable.
-- Download the files wx200gen.zip and wx200mot.zip, and
- documentation in a preferred format, such as wx200htm.zip
- or wx200pdf.zip.
+- Download wxMotif-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.
-- Make a directory such as ~/wx and unzip the files into this
- directory. Use the -a option if available to convert the ASCII
- files to Unix format. Don't worry about files being
- overwritten: they should be identical anyway.
-
- (See http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/ if you don't have zip/unzip
- already installed. Zip isn't the same as gzip!)
+- 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 (see comments in the Notes section below) if you want to have
XPM support in wxWindows (recommended).
-- You now have the option of using the configure-based system, or the simple
- makefile system.
+- You can now use configure to build wxWindows 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
information about your platform and the (relevant part of) contents of
- config.log file) to wxwin-developers@wx.dent.med.uni-muenchen.de.
+ config.log file) to wx-dev@lists.wxwindows.org.
+
COMPILING USING CONFIGURE
=========================
-- You can use the wxGTK configure system to make wxMotif, or
- you can follow the following steps to use the simpler (but
- less automatic) makefile system. If using configure, the
- following script should make the library and samples, when
- run from the top-level wxWindows directory (see also 'makewxmotif'
- in this directory). Make this script executable with the command
- chmod a+x makewxmotif.
+* The most simple case
+-----------------------
- -------:x-----Cut here-----:x-----
- # makewxmotif
- # Sets permissions (in case we extracted wxMotif from zip files)
- # and makes wxMotif.
- # Call from top-level wxWindows 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 setup/general/* setup/shared/*
- ./configure --with-shared --with-motif --without-gtk --with-debug_flag --with-debug_info --without-threads
- make
- -------:x-----Cut here-----:x-----
+If you compile wxWindows on Linux for the first time and don't like to read
+install instructions just do (in the base dir):
- This script will build wxMotif using shared libraries.
+> ./configure --with-motif
+> make
+> su <type root password>
+> make install
+> ldconfig
+> exit
-- Change directory to a sample e.g. samples/minimal, and type make.
- The binary will end up under the Linux (or other appropriate) subdirectory.
+Afterwards you can continue with
-- To build an application outside the wxWindows hierarchy, you can
- use `wx-config --cflags` when compiling source files and `wx-config --libs`
- when linking, where wx-config is in the wxWindows root directory.
- These invocations return the appropriate flags for the compiler.
+> make
+> su <type root password>
+> make install
+> ldconfig
+> exit
+
+If you want to remove wxWindows on Unix you can do this:
+
+> su <type root password>
+> make uninstall
+> ldconfig
+> exit
+
+* The expert case
+-----------------
+
+If you want to do some more serious cross-platform programming with wxWindows,
+such as for GTK and Motif, you can now build two complete libraries and use
+them concurretly. For this end, you have to create a directory for each build
+of wxWindows - you may also want to create different versions of wxWindows
+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.
+For building three versions (one GTK, one Motif and a debug version of the GTK
+source) you'd do this:
+
+md buildmotif
+cd buildmotif
+../configure --with-motif
+make
+cd ..
+
+md buildgtk
+cd buildgtk
+../configure --with-gtk
+make
+cd ..
+
+md buildgtkd
+cd buildgtkd
+../configure --with-gtk --enable-debug_flag
+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 optimsation as the compiler will give up with an internal
+compiler error.
+
+If there is just any way for you to use egcs, use egcs. We cannot fix gcc.
+
+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.
+
+* The most simple program
+-------------------------
+
+Now create your super-application myfoo.app and compile anywhere with
+
+g++ myfoo.cpp `wx-config --libs --cflags` -o myfoo
+
+* General
+-----------------------
+
+The Unix variants of wxWindows 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
+
+ http://wesley.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~wxxt
+
+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
+YOU USE AND WHAT ERROR WAS REPORTED. I know this has no effect, but I tried...
+
+* GUI libraries
+-----------------------
+
+wxWindows/Motif requires the Motif library to be installed on your system. As
+an alternative, you may also use the free library "lesstif" which implements
+most of the Motif API without the licence restrictions of Motif.
+
+You can get the newest version of the Lesstif from the lesstif homepage at:
+
+ http://www.lesstif.org
+
+* Additional libraries
+-----------------------
+
+wxWindows/Motif 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"
+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
+--------------------------
+
+Please send comments and question about the OS/2 installation
+to Andrea Venturoli <a.ventu@flashnet.it> and patches to
+the wxWindows mailing list.
-- When compiling certain utilities such as Dialog Editor, you may find
- that the makefile refers to wx-config as above. Unless you have used
- "make install" to install wxWindows, wx-config won't be found, so
- either edit the makefile to hard-wire the flags, or place wx-config
- where it will be found by the makefile, or add the directory where you have
- installed wxWindows to your PATH.
+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).
-- If switching between wxMotif and wxGTK, you should remove the
- config.cache file manually before running configure again.
+Open an OS/2 prompt and switch to the directory above.
+First set some global environment variables we need:
-COMPILING USING MAKEFILES
-=========================
-
-- Copy the file include/wx/motif/setup0.h to include/wx/motif/setup.h and
- edit it if you wish to enable/disable some library features
-
-- Choose a .env file from src/makeenvs that matches your
- environment, and copy it to src/make.env. These are the
- settings read by wxWindows for Motif makefiles.
+SET CXXFLAGS=-Zmtd -D__ST_MT_ERRNO__
+SET CFLAGS=-Zmtd -D__ST_MT_ERRNO__
+SET OSTYPE=OS2X
+SET COMSPEC=sh
-- Edit src/make.env to change options according to your local
- environment. In particular, change WXDIR to where wxWindows is
- found on your system, or set the WXWIN environment variable
- before compilation, e.g.:
+Notice you can choose whatever you want, if you don't like OS2X.
- export WXWIN=/home/jacs/wx2
+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-motif
+as described above.
- Please feel free to contribute settings files for your environment.
+To verify Lesstif 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 wxMotif on SGI
+--------------------------
+
+Using the SGI native compilers, it is recommended that you
+also set CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS before running configure. These
+should be set to :
+
+CFLAGS="-mips3 -n32"
+CXXFLAGS="-mips3 -n32"
+
+This is essential if you want to use the resultant binaries
+on any other machine than the one it was compiled on. If you
+have a 64bit machine (Octane) you should also do this to ensure
+you don't accidently build the libraries as 64bit (which is
+untested).
+
+The SGI native compiler support has only been tested on Irix 6.5.
+
+* Create your configuration
+-----------------------------
+
+Usage:
+ ./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
+
+to see all the options please use:
+
+ ./configure --help
+
+The basic philosophy is that if you want to use different
+configurations, like a debug and a release version,
+or use the same source tree on different systems,
+you have only to change the environment variable OSTYPE.
+(Sadly this variable is not set by default on some systems
+in some shells - on SGI's for example). So you will have to
+set it there. This variable HAS to be set before starting
+configure, so that it knows which system it tries to
+configure for.
+
+Configure will complain if the system variable OSTYPE has
+not been defined. And Make in some circumstances as well...
+
+
+* 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 confiugre options have been thoroughly tested
+in wxWindows snapshot 6, but not yet all (ODBC not).
+
+You have to add --with-motif on platforms, where Motif is
+not the default (on Linux, configure will deafult to GTK).
+
+ --without-gtk Don't use the GIMP ToolKit (GTK)
+
+ --with-motif Use either Motif or Lesstif
+ Configure will look for both.
+
+The following options handle the kind of library you want to build.
+
+ --disable-threads Compile without thread support. Threads
+ support is also required for the
+ socket code to work.
+
+ --disable-shared Do not create shared libraries.
+
+ --disable-optimise Do not optimise the code. Can
+ sometimes be useful for debugging
+ and is required on some architectures
+ such as Sun with gcc 2.8.X which
+ would otherwise produce segvs.
+
+ --enable-profile Add profiling info to the object
+ files. Currently broken, I think.
+
+ --enable-no_rtti Enable compilation without creation of
+ C++ RTTI information in object files.
+ This will speed-up compilation and reduce
+ binary size.
+
+ --enable-no_exceptions Enable compilation without creation of
+ C++ exception information in object files.
+ This will speed-up compilation and reduce
+ binary size. Also fewer crashes during the
+ actual compilation...
+
+ --enable-no_deps Enable compilation without creation of
+ dependency information.
+
+ --enable-permissive Enable compilation without creation of
+ giving erros as soon as you compile with
+ Solaris ANSI-defying headers...
+
+ --enable-mem_tracing Add built-in memory tracing.
+
+ --enable-dmalloc Use the dmalloc memory debugger.
+ Read more at www.letters.com/dmalloc/
+
+ --enable-debug_info Add debug info to object files and
+ executables for use with debuggers
+ such as gdb (or its many frontends).
+
+ --enable-debug_flag Define __DEBUG__ and __WXDEBUG__ when
+ compiling. This enable wxWindows' very
+ useful internal debugging tricks (such
+ as automatically reporting illegal calls)
+ to work. Note that program and library
+ must be compiled with the same debug
+ options.
+
+* Feature Options
+-------------------
+
+Many of the confiugre options have been thoroughly tested
+in wxWindows snapshot 6, but not yet all (ODBC not).
+
+When producing an executable that is linked statically with wxGTK
+you'll be surprised at its immense size. This can sometimes be
+drastically reduced by removing features from wxWindows that
+are not used in your program. The most relevant such features
+are
+
+ --without-libpng Disables PNG image format code.
+
+ --without-libjpeg Disables JPEG image format code.
+
+{ --without-odbc Disables ODBC code. Not yet. }
+
+ --disable-resources Disables the use of *.wxr type
+ resources.
+
+ --disable-threads Disables threads. Will also
+ disable sockets.
+
+ --disable-sockets Disables sockets.
+
+ --disable-dnd Disables Drag'n'Drop.
+
+ --disable-clipboard Disables Clipboard.
+
+ --disable-serial Disables object instance serialiasation.
+
+ --disable-streams Disables the wxStream classes.
+
+ --disable-file Disables the wxFile class.
+
+ --disable-textfile Disables the wxTextFile class.
+
+ --disable-intl Disables the internationalisation.
+
+ --disable-validators Disables validators.
+
+ --disable-accel Disables accel.
+
+Apart from disabling certain features you can very often "strip"
+the program of its debugging information resulting in a significant
+reduction in size.
+
+* Compiling
+-------------
+
+The following must be done in the base directory (e.g. ~/wxGTK
+or ~/wxWin or whatever)
+
+Now the makefiles are created (by configure) and you can compile
+the library by typing:
+
+ make
+
+make yourself some coffee, as it will take some time. On an old
+386SX possibly two weeks. During compilation, you'll get a few
+warning messages depending in your compiler.
+
+If you want to be more selective, you can change into a specific
+directiry and type "make" there.
+
+Then you may install the library and it's header files under
+/usr/local/include/wx and /usr/local/lib respectively. You
+have to log in as root (i.e. run "su" and enter the root
+password) and type
+
+ make install
+
+You can remove any traces of wxWindows by typing
+
+ make uninstall
+
+If you want to save disk space by removing unnecessary
+object-files:
+
+ 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
+
+Using this way, a make file for the minimal sample would look
+like this
+
+CXX = g++
+
+minimal: minimal.o
+ $(CXX) -o minimal minimal.o `wx-config --libs`
-- Change directory to src/motif and type:
+minimal.o: minimal.cpp mondrian.xpm
+ $(CXX) `wx-config --cflags` -c minimal.cpp -o minimal.o
- make -f makefile.unx motif
+clean:
+ rm -f *.o minimal
+
+This is certain to become the standard way unless we decide
+to sitch to tmake.
+
+2) The other way creates a project within the source code
+directories of wxWindows. 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.
- This should make the library libwx_motif.a in the lib
- directory. Note that this makefile system does not build shared
- libraries, only static ones (that is, the wxWindows library will be
- linked statically; to see remaining dependencies on shared libraries,
- type e.g. ldd minimal_motif).
+* Further notes by Julian Smart
+---------------------------------
-- Make a sample, such as the minimal sample:
+- You may find the following script useful for compiling wxMotif,
+ especially if installing from zips (which don't preserve file
+ permissions). Make this script executable with the command
+ chmod a+x makewxmotif.
- cd samples/minimal
- make -f makefile.unx motif
+ -------:x-----Cut here-----:x-----
+ # makewxmotif
+ # Sets permissions (in case we extracted wxMotif from zip files)
+ # and makes wxMotif.
+ # Call from top-level wxWindows 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-motif --without-gtk --with-debug_flag --with-debug_info --enable-debug --without-threads --without-sockets --without-odbc
+ make
+ -------:x-----Cut here-----:x-----
- and run the resulting minimal_motif binary.
+ This script will build wxMotif using shared libraries. If you want to build
+ a static wxWindows library, use --disable-shared.
Troubleshooting
---------------
-- If you have trouble compiling the file y_tab.c, or have strange
- linking errors, check whether you're using a C or C++ compiler for this file.
- You should specify a C compiler in the CCLEX variable in src/make.env.
- You could also try using bison and flex instead of yacc and
- lex.
-
- 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.
possible temporary workaround (comment out the final
XtDestroyWidget from ~wxWindow in window.cpp).
-- If you use flex and bison instead of yacc and lex, you may need
- to change the relevant part of src/motif/makefile.unx to read:
-
- ../common/y_tab.c: ../common/parser.y
- $(YACC) ../common/parser.y
- mv ../common/parser.tab.c ../common/y_tab.c
-
- (the 'mv' command needs to be changed)
-
- Some compilers, such as Sun C++, may give a lot of warnings about
virtual functions being hidden. Please ignore these, it's correct C++ syntax.
If you find any incorrect instances, though, such as a
Other Notes
-----------
-- Better installation and makefile systems are
- required. A revised configure system is in preparation.
-
- Debugging mode is switched on by default in the makefiles, but using
configure will create a release build of the library by default: it's
recommended to use --with-debug_info and --with-debug_flag configure
and --with-debug_info to --without-debug_info in the makewxmotif
script).
-- Some classes can be switched off in include/wx/motif/setup.h,
- if you are having trouble with a particular file. However,
- I'd prefer you to fix the problem and send the fix to me :-) or at
- least let me know about it.
-
-- Thread support is switched off by default in setup.h (wxUSE_THREADS)
- because standard Unices often do not have the necessary thread library
- installed. Please see ../docs/gtk/install.txt for more details on this.
- The systems for which thread support is known to work are Linux with libc6
- (a.k.a. glibc2), Solaris 2.5 and 2.6 (provided that X libraries are thread
- safe) and, to some extent, FreeBSD 2.8 and 3.1 (any feedback on thread
- support under FreeBSD as well as the systems not mentioned here would be
- appreciated).
-
-- If you run into problems with a missing X11/Xpm.h header, you
- need to install the XPM package. It can be obtained from:
-
- ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/libraries/xpm-3.4k.tar.gz
- http://sunfreeware.com
-
- You may need to modify make.env to add -I and -L options pointing to where Xpm
- is installed and possibly change bitmap.cpp to
- include <xpm.h> instead of <X11/xpm.h>
-
- Alternatively, edit include/motif/setup.h, set wxUSE_XPM
- to 0, and recompile. You will not be able to load any XPMs,
- though (currently the only supported colour bitmap format).
-
Bug reports
-----------
Please send bug reports with a description of your environment,
compiler and the error message(s) to the wxwin-developers mailing list at:
- wxwin-developers@wx.dent.med.uni-muenchen.de
+ wx-dev@lists.wxwindows.org
+
+Julian Smart, Robert Roebling and Vadim Zeitlin, November 1999.
-Julian Smart, February 1999.
-julian.smart@ukonline.co.uk
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