-Installing wxWindows 2.2
+Installing wxWindows 2.3
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-This is wxWindows 2.2 for Microsoft Windows 3.1, 95, 98 and
-Windows NT/Windows 2000. This is an official, stable release.
+This is wxWindows 2.3 for Microsoft Windows 3.1, 95, 98 and
+Windows NT/Windows 2000. This is an unstable development release.
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you experience problems installing, please
re-read this instructions and other related files (changes.txt,
with the makefiles. See also the demos hierarchy which doesn't
have any BC++ project files yet.
-Note (2): to make the png, xpm, zlib, jpeg and tiff libraries (needed for
+Note (2): to make the png, zlib, jpeg and tiff libraries (needed for
some samples) you need to compile them with bc32.ide.
Note (3): the debug version of the wxWindows library is about 40 MB, and the
2. Make sure that you downloaded and installed the service pack 1
for Borland C++ 5.5. This SP1 can be downloaded from:
- http://www.borland.com/devsupport/bcppbuilder/file_supplements.html
+ http://www.borland.com/devsupport/bcppbuilder/patches/#freecompiler55
IMPORTANT:
When installing SP1, make sure that you extract (UnZip) the files
Note (3): if Watcom can't read the precompiled header when
building a sample, try deleting src\msw\watcom.pch and
compiling the sample again.
-Note (4): if you get _popen_ and _pclose_ link errors, try
-recompiling wxWindows with XPM support disabled in setup.h.
-Alternatively, make sure these lines exist at the top of
-src\xpm\xpmi.h:
-
-// Added by JACS for Watcom C++/wxWindows compilation (no popen/pclose functions)
-#ifdef __WATCOMC__
-#define NO_ZPIPE
-#endif
Metrowerks CodeWarrior compilation
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instructions with either of these packages.
- If using Mingw32, you need some extra files to use the wxWindows
- makefiles. You can find these files in ports/mingw32 on the ftp
- site or CD-ROM, as extra.zip. These should be extracted to the Mingw32
- directory. If you have alread downloaded bison, flex, make, rm, cp, mv
+ makefiles. You can find these files in ports/mingw32 on the
+ wxWindows ftp site or CD-ROM, as extra.zip. These should be extracted
+ to the Mingw32 directory. If you have alread downloaded rm, cp, mv
from elsewhere, you won't need this.
If using Mingw32 2.95 and below with wxWindows 2.1 or above, you
Run it before compiling.
- For Cygwin, make sure there's a \tmp directory on your
- Windows drive or bison will crash (actually you don't need this
- for ordinary wxWindows compilation: a pre-generated .c file is
+ Windows drive or bison will crash (actually you don't need
+ bison for ordinary wxWindows compilation: a pre-generated .c file is
supplied).
- Edit wx/src/makeg95.env and set the MINGW32 variable at the top of