Continue with item c) below.
-b) If using the GNU Mingw32 or GNU Cygwin32 compilers
+b) If using the MinGW or Cygwin compilers
-You can get Mingw32 from http://www.mingw.org
+You can get MinGW from http://www.mingw.org/
-Cygwin32 is available at http://www.cygwin.com
+Cygwin is available at http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/
The makefile might have small problems with Cygwin's tools
-so it is recommended to use Mingw32 and its toolchain instead
+so it is recommended to use MinGW and its toolchain instead
if possible.
-> Set your path so that it includes the directory
where your compiler and tools reside
--> If your are using an old Mingw32 version (gcc-2.95 or older),
+-> If your are using an old MinGW version (gcc-2.95 or older),
you might need to fix some headers with the patches contained
in the wxWin\Mingw32-gcc295.patches file. PLEASE APPLY THESE
PATCHES BY HAND! There are apparently a few different versions
of the headers floating around. Note that these patches are
- not needed if you are using Mingw32 gcc-2.95.2 or newer.
+ not needed if you are using MinGW gcc-2.95.2 or newer.
-> Edit wx/src/makeg95.env and set the MINGW32 variable at the top of
- the file to either 1 (you have Mingw32) or 0 (you have Cygwin32).
- If using MINGW32, also set the MINGW32VERSION variable
- appropiately.
+ the file to either 1 (you have MinGW) or 0 (you have Cygwin).
+ Also set the MINGW32VERSION variable appropiately.
c) Build instructions
into c:\wxWin
-> Copy c:\wxWin\include\wx\msw\setup0.h
to c:\wxWin\include\wx\msw\setup.h
--> Edit c:\wxWin\include\wx\msw\setup.h so that
- most features are enabled (i.e. defined to 1), for example:
- #define wxUSE_ODBC 0
- #define wxUSE_SOCKETS 1
- #define wxUSE_HTML 1
- #define wxUSE_THREADS 1
- #define wxUSE_FS_INET 0
- #define wxUSE_FS_ZIP 1
- #define wxUSE_BUSYINFO 1
- #define wxUSE_DYNLIB_CLASS 1
- #define wxUSE_ZIPSTREAM 1
- #define wxUSE_LIBJPEG 1
- #define wxUSE_LIBPNG 1
+-> Edit c:\wxWin\include\wx\msw\setup.h to choose
+ the features you would like to compile wxWindows with[out].
and std iostreams are disabled with
#define wxUSE_STD_IOSTREAM 0
-> type: cd c:\wxWin\src\msw
+-> type: set WXWIN=c:\wxWin
-> type: make -f makefile.g95 (if using GNU tools)
or type: nmake -f makefile.vc (if using MS VC++)
+ See also docs/msw/install.txt for additional compilation options.
+
d) Borland (including free command line tools)
Download tools from http://www.borland.com/downloads/
III) Windows using configure
----------------------------------------
-Take a look at Unix->Windows cross compiling. With minor
-modifications, this should work in Windows if you've got the cygnus
-utilities (bash, GNU make, etc) and either mingw32 or cygwin32 installed.
-See http://www.cygnus.com for these programs, or go straight to their
-ftp server at ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/cygwin/.
+wxWindows can be built on Windows using MSYS (see
+http://www.mingw.org/), which is a POSIX build environment
+for Windows. With MSYS you can just ./configure && make (see also VII,
+Unix->Windows cross-compiling using configure).
Of course, you can also build the library using plain makefiles (see
section I).
VII) Unix->Windows cross-compiling using configure
--------------------------------------------------
-First you'll need a cross-compiler; linux glibc binaries of mingw32 and
-cygwin32 (both based on egcs) can be found at
+First you'll need a cross-compiler; linux glibc binaries of MinGW and
+Cygwin (both based on egcs) can be found at
ftp://ftp.objsw.com/pub/crossgcc/linux-x-win32. Alternative binaries,
based on the latest MinGW release can be found at
-http://members.telering.at/jessich/mingw/mingwcross/mingw_cross.html
+http://members.telering.at/jessich/mingw/mingwcross/mingw_cross.html
Otherwise you can compile one yourself.
-[ A Note about cygwin32 and mingw32: the main difference is that cygwin32
+[ A Note about Cygwin and MinGW: the main difference is that Cygwin
binaries are always linked against cygwin.dll. This dll encapsulates most
standard Unix C extensions, which is very handy if you're porting unix
-software to windows. However, wxMSW doesn't need this, so mingw32 is
+software to windows. However, wxMSW doesn't need this, so MinGW is
preferable if you write portable C(++). ]
You might want to build both Unix and Windows binaries in the same source
DLLTOOL=i586-mingw32-dlltool LD=i586-mingw32-ld NM=i586-mingw32-nm \
../configure --host=i586-mingw32 --with-mingw
-(all assuming you're using mingw32)
+(all assuming you're using MinGW)
By default this will compile a DLL, if you want a static library,
specify --disable-shared.
NB: if you are using a very old compiler you risk to get quite a few warnings
about "ANSI C++ forbids implicit conversion from 'void *'" in all places
where va_arg macro is used. This is due to a bug in (some versions of)
- mingw32 headers which may be corrected by upgrading your compier,
+ MinGW headers which may be corrected by upgrading your compier,
otherwise you might edit the file
${install_prefix}/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mingw32/egcs-2.91.57/include/stdarg.h
__gnuc_va_list is char *.
If this is successful, you end up with a wx23_2.dll/libwx23_2.a in win32/lib
-( or just libwx_msw.a if you opted for a static build ).
+(or just libwx_msw.a if you opted for a static build).
Now try building the minimal sample:
-> cd samples/minimal
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