-Installing wxWindows 2.5.0
+Installing wxWindows 2.5.1
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-This is wxWindows 2.5.0 for Microsoft Windows 9x/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000
+This is wxWindows 2.5.1 for Microsoft Windows 9x/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000
and Windows XP. This is an unstable development release. Note that unstable in
this context doesn't mean that it crashes a lot, just that the library API may
change in backwards incompatible way during the 2.5 branch lifetime.
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1. CodeWarrior Pro7 project files in XML format are already
- included in wxMSW-2.5.0.zip and the setup version.
+ included in wxMSW-2.5.1.zip and the setup version.
2. Review the file include\wx\msw\setup.h (or include\wx\msw\setup0.h if
you are working from the CVS version) to make sure the settings reflect
sample/grid directory, calling it gridW7.mcp. Open
newgridW7.mcp and revise the project by deleting the files
minimal.rc and minimal.cpp and adding the files griddemo.rc and
- griddemo.cpp. Build and run....
+ griddemo.cpp. Build and run....
+
Cygwin/MinGW compilation
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1. You need to download and unzip in turn (later packages will overwrite
older files)
- Digital Mars C/C++ Compiler Version 8.34
+ Digital Mars C/C++ Compiler Version 8.34 or 8.35
Basic utilities
- from http://www.digitalmars.com/download/freecompiler.html [25 Aug 03, CE]
+ from http://www.digitalmars.com/download/freecompiler.html [26 Aug 03, CE]
2. Change directory to src\msw. Type 'make -f makefile.sc' to
make the wxWindows core library.
3. Change directory to samples\minimal and type 'make -f makefile.sc'
to make this sample. Most of the other samples also work.
-4. Note that there is a compiler bug in verson 8.35 of the DM compiler which
- prevents wxWindows from building.
+
16-bit compilation is no longer supported.
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MONOLITHIC=1
- Starting with version 2.5.0, wxWindows has the ability to be built as
+ Starting with version 2.5.1, wxWindows has the ability to be built as
several smaller libraries instead of single big one as used to be the case
in 2.4 and older versions. This is called "multilib build" and is the
default behaviour of makefiles. You can still build single library