-* The most simple case
------------------------
+wxWidgets for GTK+ installation
+-------------------------------
+
+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 wxWidgets you are
+ using (including the beta) and what compiler on what system. One
+ example: wxGTK 2.8.0, gcc 3.4.5, Fedora Core 4
+
+* The simplest case
+-------------------
+
+If you compile wxWidgets on Linux for the first time and don't like to read
+install instructions just do (in the base dir):
+
+> mkdir buildgtk
+> cd buildgtk
+> ../configure --with-gtk
+> make
+> su <type root password>
+> make install
+> ldconfig
+[if you get "ldconfig: command not found", try using "/sbin/ldconfig"]
+
+If you don't do the 'make install' part, you can still use the libraries from
+the buildgtk directory, but they may not be available to other users.
+
+If you want to remove wxWidgets on Unix you can do this:
+
+> su <type root password>
+> make uninstall
+> ldconfig
+
+Note that by default, GTK+ 2.X is used. GTK+ 1.2 can be specified
+with --with-gtk=1.
-If you compile wxWindows on Unix for the first time and don't like
-to read install instructions just do (in the base dir):
+* The expert case
+-----------------
-./configure --without-threads
+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. To do this, create a separate 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.
+
+For building three versions (one GTK+, one Motif and a debug version of the GTK
+source) you'd do this:
+
+mkdir buildmotif
+cd buildmotif
+../configure --with-motif
make
+cd ..
-and drink 10 coffees. Then you may log in as root and type
+mkdir buildgtk
+cd buildgtk
+../configure --with-gtk
+make
+cd ..
-make install
+mkdir buildgtkd
+cd buildgtkd
+../configure --with-gtk --enable-debug
+make
+cd ..
-You can leave out the --without-threads option if you have a NEW
-Linux distribution based on glibc (e.g. RedHat 5.1 or Debian 2.0)
-or any other Unix that comes with Posix threads or SGI threads.
+Note that you can install all those libraries concurrently, you just need to
+pass the appropriate flags when using them.
-Now create your super-application myfoo.app and compile anywhere with
+* The simplest errors
+---------------------
-g++ myfoo.cpp `wx-config --libs` `wx-config --cflags` -o myfoo
+For any configure errors: please look at config.log file which was generated
+during configure run, it usually contains some useful information.
-* General
------------------------
+configure reports, that you don't have GTK+ 1.2/2.0 installed although you are
+very sure you have. Well, you have installed it, but you also have another
+version of the GTK+ installed, which you may need to remove including other
+versions of glib (and its headers). Or maybe you installed it in a non-default
+location and configure can't find it there, so please check that your PATH
+variable includes the path to the correct gtk-config/pkg-config. Also check
+that your LD_LIBRARY_PATH or equivalent variable contains the path to GTK+
+libraries if they were installed in a non-default location.
-The Unix variants of wxWindows use GNU configure. If you have problems
-with your make use GNU make instead.
+You get errors from make: please use GNU make instead of the native make
+program. Currently wxWidgets can be built only with GNU make, BSD make and
+Solaris make. Other versions might work or not (any which don't have VPATH
+support definitely won't).
-Read my homepage at
+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.
- http://wesley.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~wxxt
-
-for newest information.
+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.
-* GUI libraries
------------------------
+* The simplest program
+----------------------
-wxWindows/GTK requires the GTK+ library to be installed on your system.
-It has to be a stable version, preferebly version 1.0.6. When using
-a version previous to 1.0.6 you'll get crashes here and there. This
-is certain to happen with colors in native widgets.
+Now create your super-application myfoo.cpp and compile anywhere with
-You can get the newest version of the GTK+ from the GTK homepage
-at
- http://www.gtk.org
-
-We also mirror GTK+ 1.0.6 at our ftp site. You'll find information
-about downloading at my homepage.
-
-* Additional libraries
------------------------
+g++ myfoo.cpp `wx-config --libs --cxxflags` -o myfoo
-wxWindows/Gtk 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:
+* GUI libraries
+---------------
- - RedHat 5.1
- - Debian 2.0
- - Stampede
-
-The next major version of SuSE will also support glibc 2,
-but version 5.X does not. Also Caldera and Slackware
-don't yet support glibc 2.
+wxWidgets/GTK+ requires the GTK+ library to be installed on your system. It has
+to be a stable version, preferably GTK+ 2.x.y, where x is an even number.
+GTK+ version 1.2 is highly discouraged, but if you decide to still use it,
+please use version 1.2.10 (at least 1.2.3 is required, 1.2.7 is strongly recommended).
-On IRIX you can also use SGI threads if Posix-Threads
-are not present. The SGI threads will be detected by
-configure automatically.
+You can get the newest version of the GTK+ from the GTK+ homepage at:
-You can always disable thread support by running
+ http://www.gtk.org
-./configure "--without-threads"
-make clean
-make
-
-NB: I included thread support in wxWindows/Gtk, as this
-problem will disappear in the near future when all major
-Linux Variants have moved to glibc 2. Also, the Linux
-Base Standard will include glibc 2.
+We also mirror GTK+ at my ftp site. You'll find information about downloading
+at my homepage.
-* Create your configuration
------------------------------
+* Additional libraries
+----------------------
-Usage:
- ./configure options
+wxWidgets/Gtk 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.
-If you want to use system's C and C++ compiler,
-set environment variables CC and CCC as
+You can disable thread support by running
- % setenv CC cc
- % setenv CCC CC
- % ./configure options
+./configure --disable-threads
+make
+su <type root password>
+make install
+ldconfig
+exit
+
+* Building wxGTK 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),
+GTK+ (1.2.5 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-gtk=1"
+and make and possibly make install as described above.
+
+* Building wxGTK on SGI
+-----------------------
Using the SGI native compilers, it is recommended that you
-also set CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS before running configure. These
+also set CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS before running configure. These
should be set to :
-CFLAGS="-mips3 -n32"
+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
+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.
-to see all the options please use:
+* Building wxGTK on Cygwin
+--------------------------
- ./configure --help
+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.
-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.
+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.
-Configure will complain if the system variable OSTYPE has
-not been defined. And Make in some circumstances as well...
+* Create your configuration
+---------------------------
+
+Usage:
+ ./configure options
+
+If you want to use system's C and C++ compiler,
+set environment variables CC and CXX as
+
+ % setenv CC cc
+ % setenv CXX CC
+ % ./configure [options]
+
+to see all the options please use:
+
+ ./configure --help
+
+It is recommended to build wxWidgets in another directory (maybe a
+subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation) as this allows you to
+have multiple configurations (for example, debug and release or GTK
+and Motif) simultaneously.
* 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.
Normally, you won't have to choose a toolkit, because when
you download wxGTK, it will default to --with-gtk etc. But
-if you use all of our CVS repository you have to choose a
+if you use all of our SVN repository you have to choose a
toolkit. You must do this by running configure with either of:
- --with-gtk Use the GIMP ToolKit (GTK)
-
- --with-qt Use Qt from TrollTec
-
- --with-motif Use either Motif or Lesstif
- Configure will look for both.
+ --with-gtk=2 Use the GTK+ 2.0. Default.
+ --with-gtk=1 Use the GTK+ 1.2.
+ --with-motif Use either Motif or Lesstif
+ Configure will look for both.
The following options handle the kind of library you want to build.
- --without-threads Compile without thread support.
+ --disable-threads Compile without thread support.
+
+ --disable-shared Do not create shared libraries, but
+ build static libraries instead.
+
+ --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-unicode Enable Unicode support.
+
+ --enable-profile Add profiling info to the object
+ files. Currently broken, I think.
- --without-shared Do not create shared libraries.
+ --enable-no_rtti Enable compilation without creation of
+ C++ RTTI information in object files.
+ This will speed-up compilation and reduce
+ binary size.
- --without-optimise Do not optimise the code.
+ --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...
- --with-profile Add profiling info to the object
- files. Currently broken, I think.
-
- --with-mem_tracing Add built-in memory tracing.
- This doesn't work well with gcc.
-
- --with-dmalloc Use the dmalloc memory debugger.
- Read more at www.letters.com/dmalloc/
-
- --with-debug_info Add debug info to object files and
- executables.
+ --enable-no_deps Enable compilation without creation of
+ dependency information.
- --with-debug_flag Define __DEBUG__ and __WXDEBUG__ when
- compiling.
+ --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_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.
+
+ --enable-debug Same as --enable-debug_info and
+ --enable-debug_flag together. Unless you have
+ some very specific needs, you should use this
+ option instead of --enable-debug_info/flag ones
+ separately.
* Feature Options
--------------------
+-----------------
+
+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
+
+ --with-odbc Enables ODBC code. This is disabled
+ by default because iODBC is under the
+ L-GPL license which is less liberal than
+ wxWindows licence.
+
+ --without-libpng Disables PNG image format code.
+
+ --without-libjpeg Disables JPEG image format code.
+
+ --without-libtiff Disables TIFF image format code.
+
+ --without-expat Disable XML classes based on Expat parser.
+
+ --disable-pnm Disables PNM image format code.
+
+ --disable-gif Disables GIF image format code.
+
+ --disable-pcx Disables PCX image format code.
+
+ --disable-iff Disables IFF image format code.
+
+ --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 serialisation.
+
+ --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 accelerators support.
+
+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.
-As I don't yet care for binary size and target mainly at
-producing a shared library, wxWindows's configure system auto-
-matically enables all features, as long as they are already
-implemented. It is currently NOT possible to disable these
-options (in contrast to what configure tells you).
* Compiling
--------------
+-----------
The following must be done in the base directory (e.g. ~/wxGTK
or ~/wxWin or whatever)
-Now the makefiles are created and you can compile everything
-by typing:
-
- make
+Now the makefiles are created (by configure) and you can compile
+the library by typing:
-make yourself some coffee, as it will try to compile ALL the
-files in this distribution. During compilation, you'll get
-a few warning messages.
+ make
-if you want to be more selective:
+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.
- make src will build only the base libraries
- make samples will build the samples
- make other will build everything in other
- make user will build everything in user
+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 it's header files under
+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
-
-Depending on the configuration of some files, the libraries
-and binaries will be placed in different directories.
-The "global" binaries and libraries will be placed in:
-
- bin/$(OSTYPE) and
- lib/$(OSTYPE) respectively
+ make install
-"local" binaries and libraries will be placed in:
+You can remove any traces of wxWidgets by typing
- (basedir of that application)/$(OSTYPE).
+ make uninstall
-This is also the place where all the object-files will go.
-
-If you want to conserve disk space by removing unnecessary
+If you want to save disk space by removing unnecessary
object-files:
- make clean_obj
+make clean
-will do the work for you.
+in the various directories will do the work for you.
* Creating a new Project
--------------------------
-There are two ways to create your own 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 --cxxflags --libs` -o myfoo
Using this way, a make file for the minimal sample would look
like this
-CC = g++
+CXX = g++
minimal: minimal.o
- $(CC) -o minimal minimal.o `wx-config --libs`
+ $(CXX) -o minimal minimal.o `wx-config --libs`
-minimal.o: minimal.cpp mondrian.xpm
- $(CC) `wx-config --cflags` -c minimal.cpp -o minimal.o
+minimal.o: minimal.cpp
+ $(CXX) `wx-config --cxxflags` -c minimal.cpp -o minimal.o
-clean:
+clean:
rm -f *.o minimal
-This is certain to become the standard way unless we decide
-to sitch 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: In this case I propose to put
-all contributed programs in the directory "/user", with a
-directory of its own.
+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.
-This directory then should include the following files:
-
-Makefile (You can copy this one from any application in samples
- probably you will not need to edit this one. There is
- only one case where you might be interested in changing
- this file, but about that see later.)
-Makefile.in (This is the base application-Makefile template, from
- which the actual Makefile for each system is created.
- More about this later)
-
-put ALL your source code along with all the other stuff you need for
-your application in this directory (subdirectories are welcome).
-
-
-** Something about Makefiles
-------------------------------
-
-On general principle it should only contain ONE line, which is as follows:
-
- include ../../setup/general/makeapp
-
-this will include all the necessary definitions for creating the applications
-
-the only case where you might want to add another line is the following:
-this version of configure also supports creation of source archives of the
-application for easy distribution and updates to newer version of wxWindows.
- For this purpose all files in the application-directory will be put into
-a gziped tar-file in the full notation user/<your application>/*
-if you want to include some other files that you want "more visible", like
-a README.<yourApp> or a shell script for easy
-compilation/installation/distribution, then you have to add a variable
-
- DISTRIBUTE_ADDITIONAL=<your files>
-
-to the Makefile.
-So it would look like this:
-
- DISTRIBUTE_ADDITIONAL=README.TheApp
- include ../../setup/general/makeapp
-
-As we have already talked about distribution the command to create a
-distribution is:
-
- make distrib
-
-NOTE: If you are in the base directory of wxWindows it will create
-distribution packages for wxWindows as well as for all packages in the
-user directory.
- So if you want to create only packages for the files in user,
-then go to the directory other and type:
-
- make distrib
-
-or if you only want one application to be created then
-enter the specific directory and type there:
-make distrib
-
-All the distribution files will be put in the directory
-distrib at the base of the wxWindows-tree (where also configure
-and template.mak can be found).
-
-** Something about Makefile.in
---------------------------------
-
-As you have already seen with Makefile, configure makes a lot of use
-if the include statement in make to keep the Makefiles as simple as
-possible.
-
-So basically there are only variables to define and then a include command.
-Exception to this rule is if you have special rules for some stuff...
-These rules should go AFTER the include statement!!!
-
-so the general header looks like this:
-
- # wxWindows base directory
- WXBASEDIR=@WXBASEDIR@
- # set the OS type for compilation
- OS=@OS@
- # compile a library only
- RULE=bin
-
-and the general footer will look like this:
-
- # include the definitions now
- include ../../../template.mak
-
-the key variable is RULE, which defines what make should create
-in this directory.
-
-here are some examples:
-
- RULE description
- ===========================================================================
- bin creates a local binary (for a global binary prefix bin with g)
- additional variables needed:
- BIN_TARGET this gives the name of your application
- BIN_OBJ this gives the object files needed to
- link the application
- optional variables are:
- BIN_SRC this gives the list of c/c++ files for
- which dependencies will be checked.
- (This can be achieved with: make depend)
- BIN_LINK this gives commands for additional
- libraries needed to link the application
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
- bin2 creates two local binaries (for global binaries prefix bin2 with g)
- in addition to the variables specified above you MUST also
- provide the same variables with BIN2_ instead of BIN_
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
- lib creates a local library (for a global binary prefix bin with g)
- additional variables needed:
- LIB_TARGET this gives the name of your library
- LIB_OBJ this gives the object files needed for
- the library to be build.
- optional variables are:
- LIB_SRC this gives the list of c/c++ files for
- which dependencies will be checked.
- libbin and libgbin are also possible and will need in addition
- the variables from bin
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
- gslib is similar to lib, but it creates a shared library if the system
- supports it.
- additional variables needed:
- LIB_MAJOR major number of the shared library
- LIB_MINOR minor number of the shared library
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
- other additional variables:
-
- ADD_COMPILE define additional includes/defines that
- are needed to compile the object files
- (if you need to reference some directory
- utils - like wxGrid -, then please
- reference them with the variables defined
- in template.mak - e.g.: $(SRCDIR),$(UTILS),
- $(SAMPLES),$(OTHERS))
-
- NEEDED_DEFINES lists all the defines that HAVE to be set in
- /include/wx/setup.h to compile correctly.
-
- SRC_DIR lists all directories that are needed to
- compile. (i.e: lists all the directories,
- where there are source-files.) But it is
- also needed to clean an object and for
- machines, for which make does not support
- VPATH
-
-currently there are the following compiling rules provided:
-object files are created for the following file extensions:
-.c .cc .cpp
-
-Please have a closer look at the Makefiles in this distribution.
-
-* Platforms configure is working with
----------------------------------------
-
-Please report build succes on any machine. Especially non-
-Linux operating systems (which I don't have).
-
-Original author of the autoconf system for wxxt-1.66 and for this INSTALL
-file:
-
- Martin Sperl sperl@dsn.ast.univie.ac.at
-
-Ported to wxGTK 0.1:
-
- Wolfram Gloger wmglo@dent.med.uni-muenchen.de
-
-Thanks alot to both of them.
+----------------------
In the hope that it will be useful,
- Robert Roebling roebling@sun2.ruf.uni-freiburg.de
-
-
+ Robert Roebling
+
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