-wxWindows 2.0 for Motif installation
+wxWidgets 2.8.0 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:
-- Prerequisites: Motif 1.2 or above, or Lesstif
- (not yet tested). Motif 2.0 and above may also be suitable.
+ 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 wx-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 wxWidgets you are
+ using (including the beta) and what compiler on what system. One
+ example: wxMotif 2.8.0, gcc 2.95.4, Redhat 6.1
-- Download the files wx200gen.zip and wx200mot.zip, and
- documentation in a preferred format, such as wx200htm.zip
- or wx200pdf.zip.
+First steps
+-----------
+
+- Prerequisites: Motif 1.2 or above, or Lesstif. Motif 2.0 and
+ above may also be suitable.
-- 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.
+- Download wxX11-x.y.z.tgz, where x.y.z is the version number.
+ (wxMotif is included in the wxX11 distribution).
+ Download documentation in a preferred format, such as
+ wxWidgets-HTML.zip or wxWidgets-PDF.zip.
- (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).
+ XPM support in wxWidgets (recommended).
-- You now have the option of using the configure-based system, or the simple
- makefile system.
+- 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
+ Using configure is the only 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 simplest 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 wxWidgets 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
-- 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.
+If you want to remove wxWidgets on Unix you can do this:
-- If switching between wxMotif and wxGTK, you should remove the
- config.cache file manually before running configure again.
+> su <type root password>
+> make uninstall
+> ldconfig
+> exit
-COMPILING USING MAKEFILES
-=========================
+* The expert case
+-----------------
-- 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
+If you want to do some more serious cross-platform programming with wxWidgets,
+such as for GTK and Motif, you can now build two complete libraries and use
+them concurrently. For this end, you have to create a directory for each build
+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 and one without.
-- 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.
+For building three versions (one GTK, one Motif and a debug version of the GTK
+source) you'd do this:
-- 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.:
+mkdir buildmotif
+cd buildmotif
+../configure --with-motif
+make
+cd ..
- export WXWIN=/home/jacs/wx2
+mkdir buildgtk
+cd buildgtk
+../configure --with-gtk
+make
+cd ..
- Please feel free to contribute settings files for your environment.
+mkdir buildgtkd
+cd buildgtkd
+../configure --with-gtk --enable-debug
+make
+cd ..
-- Change directory to src/motif and type:
+Note that since wxWidgets-2.6.0 you can install all those libraries
+concurrently, you just need to pass the appropriate flags when using them.
- make -f makefile.unx motif
+* The simplest errors
+---------------------
- 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).
+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.
-- Make a sample, such as the minimal sample:
+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.
- cd samples/minimal
- make -f makefile.unx motif
+* The simplest program
+----------------------
- and run the resulting minimal_motif binary.
+Now create your super-application myfoo.app and compile anywhere with
-Troubleshooting
+g++ myfoo.cpp `wx-config --libs --cxxflags` -o myfoo
+
+* General
+---------
+
+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, see the wxWidgets website at
+
+ 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 MOTIF, WXMOTIF, WHAT
+DISTRIBUTION YOU USE AND WHAT ERROR WAS REPORTED. I know this has no effect,
+but I tried...
+
+* GUI libraries
---------------
-- 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.
+wxWidgets/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
+----------------------
+
+wxWidgets/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, virtually all Linux distributions have
+correct glibc 2 support.
+
+You can disable thread support by running
+
+./configure --disable-threads
+make
+su <type root password>
+make install
+ldconfig
+exit
+
+* Building wxMotif on OS/2
+--------------------------
+
+Please send comments and question about the OS/2 installation
+to Stefan Neis <Stefan.Neis@t-online.de> and patches to
+the wxWidgets mailing list.
+
+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.
+
+You'll need OS/2 Warp (4.51) or eCS(1.0), X-Free86/2 (3.3.6 or newer),
+Lesstif (0.92.7 or newer), emx (0.9d fix 4), 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.
+
+Open an OS/2 prompt and switch to the directory above.
+Set MAKESHELL or MAKE_SHELL (which one is needed depends on the version of
+make) to a Unix like shell, e.g.
+SET MAKESHELL=ash
+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.
+Depending on your installation you might want to also set INSTALL, for me
+it tends to try to use the system's tcpip\pcomos\install.exe which causes
+problems, e.g.
+SET INSTALL=<path_to_src_directory>/install-sh -c
+
+Notice that the delivered configure scripts are fully OS/2 aware, so you
+can simply run
+ ash -c "configure --with-motif"
+and make and possibly make install as described above.
+
+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.
+
+* 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.
+
+* Building wxMotif on Cygwin
+----------------------------
+
+The normal build instructions should work fine on Cygwin. The one difference
+with Cygwin is that when using the "--enable-shared" configure option (which
+is the default) the API is exported explicitly using __declspec(dllexport)
+rather than all global symbols being available.
+
+This shouldn't make a difference using the library and should be a little
+more efficient. However if an export attribute has been missed somewhere you
+will see linking errors. If this happens then you can work around the
+problem by setting LDFLAGS=-Wl,--export-all-symbols. Please also let us know
+about it on the wx-dev mailing list.
+
+* 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 configure options have been thoroughly tested
+in wxWidgets 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 default to 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.
+
+ --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 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 checking for strict
+ ANSI conformance. Useful to prevent the build
+ dying with errors 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 Equivalent to --enable-debug_info plus
+ --enable-debug-flag.
+
+ --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 wxWidgets' 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 configure options have been thoroughly tested
+in wxWidgets 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 wxWidgets 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.
+
+ --without-libtiff Disables TIFF image format code.
+
+ --without-expat Disable XML classes based on Expat parser.
+
+ --disable-threads Disables threads. Will also
+ disable sockets.
+
+ --disable-sockets Disables sockets.
+
+ --disable-dnd Disables Drag'n'Drop.
+
+ --disable-clipboard Disables Clipboard.
+
+ --disable-streams Disables the wxStream classes.
+
+ --disable-file Disables the wxFile class.
+
+ --disable-textfile Disables the wxTextFile class.
-- 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.
+ --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.
+
+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. ~/wxMotif
+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
+Pentium 200 around 40 minutes. During compilation, you may get a few
+warning messages depending in your compiler.
+
+If you want to be more selective, you can change into a specific
+directory and type "make" there.
+
+Then you may install the library and its 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 wxWidgets 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 --cxxflags` -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`
+
+minimal.o: minimal.cpp mondrian.xpm
+ $(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 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 wxMotif,
+ especially if installing from zips (which don't preserve file
+ permissions). Make this script executable with the command
+ chmod a+x makewxmotif.
+
+ -------:x-----Cut here-----:x-----
+ # makewxmotif
+ # Sets permissions (in case we extracted wxMotif from zip files)
+ # and makes wxMotif.
+ # 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-motif --with-debug_flag --with-debug_info --enable-debug --without-threads --without-sockets --without-odbc
+ make
+ -------:x-----Cut here-----:x-----
+
+ This script will build wxMotif using shared libraries. If you want to build
+ 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.
- If you operator-related compile errors or strange memory problems
(for example in deletion of string arrays), set wxUSE_GLOBAL_MEMORY_OPERATORS
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
- 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
- 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).
+- Using configure will create a release build of the library by
+ default: it's recommended to use --enable-debug configure switch
+ while developing your application. To compile in non-debug mode, use
+ --disable-debug configure switch.
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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