Use "MSW" and "Windows" more accurately to avoid confusion.

[wxWidgets.git] / docs / msw / wince / readme.txt

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@@ -1,134 +1,66 @@
 
   =================================================
 
   =================================================

-  Welcome to wxWidgets/CE 2.7.2
+  Welcome to wxWidgets/CE

   =================================================
 
   =================================================
 

-You have downloaded version 2.7.2 of the Windows CE port of
-the wxWidgets GUI library. This runs on Pocket PC 2002/2003,
-Smartphone 2002/2003, Windows CE .NET 4.x, and Windows Mobile 5.
+This is the readme file for the Windows CE port of the wxWidgets GUI library
+which runs on Pocket PC 2002/2003, Smartphone 2002/2003, Windows CE .NET 4.x,
+and Windows Mobile 5. This port requires the use of Microsoft Visual Studio
+2005 and 2008, in particular eVC (Visual C++ Embedded) is not supported any
+longer.

 
 

-More information about the wxWidgets project as a whole
-can be found at:
+More information about the wxWidgets project as a whole can be found at:

 
 

-  http://www.wxwidgets.org
+  http://www.wxwidgets.org/

 
 Information about the Windows CE port in particular can be found in
 the wxWinCE topic in the wxWidgets reference manual.
 
 
 Information about the Windows CE port in particular can be found in
 the wxWinCE topic in the wxWidgets reference manual.
 

-Supported platforms
-===================

 
 

-These are the supported platforms at the moment:
-
-- x86 emulator build in eVC 3 and eVC 4.x
-- Pocket PC (StrongARM)
-- Smartphone (StrongARM)
-- Windows Mobile 5
-
-You can test the library and applications using the Pocket PC emulator 
-and/or Compaq iPAQ or other PDAs using Pocket PC.
-
-Compiler installation
-=====================
-
-1. Embedded Visual C++
-----------------------
-
-Get the Visual C++ embedded (FREE) from Microsoft website
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/device/embedded/download.asp
- 
-You must use Embedded Visual C++ 3.0 or Embedded Visual C++ 4.x.
-
-You can download the Smartphone 2002/3 and Pocket PC 2002/3
-SDKs separately.
-
-2. Visual Studio 2005
----------------------
-
-VS 2005 Professional is required to write Windows Mobile 5 applications, although Pocket PC
-2003 applications should also run on Mobile 5. VS 2005 must
-be purchased, and you can then download the Mobile 5 2005 SDK
-from Microsoft's site.
- 

 wxWidgets/CE Configuration
 ================================
 
 wxWidgets/CE Configuration
 ================================
 

-You may wish to customize the following file
-before compiling wxWinCE:
+You may wish to customize the file include/wx/msw/wince/setup.h before building
+wxWinCE to disable any features that your program doesn't need and minimize the
+size of the library.

 
 

-include/wx/msw/wince/setup.h

 
 wxWidgets/CE Compilation
 ================================
 
 
 wxWidgets/CE Compilation
 ================================
 

-NOTE: to generate targets not in the standard project files,
-you should rebuild the project files using Bakefile.
-Also, if you are building from a CVS version of wxWidgets,
-you need to create eVC++ project files or get them from
-somewhere, such as the daily makefile builds here:
-
-http://biolpc22.york.ac.uk/pub/CVS_Makefiles/
-
-See technote docs/tech/tn0016.txt for details on using Bakefile,
-and you can get Bakefile from:
-
-http://bakefile.sf.net
-
-Open build/wince/wx.vcw, select an ARM or x86 target (or emulator
-target for eVC++ 4), and compile.
+Unless the archive you downloaded already included CE-specific project files,
+you first need to generate them yourself. For this please install bakefile
+(from http://www.bakefile.org/, see technote docs/tech/tn0016.txt for more
+details about it) and create the file build/bakefiles/Bakefiles.local.bkgen
+with the following contents for Visual Studio 2008 (replace 2008 with 2005
+everywhere for the previous version):

 
 

-Then open samples/minimal/minimal.vcw, select an ARM, x86 or emulator
-target, and compile. You can use the emulator or real hardware to run
-the sample.
+<?xml version="1.0" ?>

 
 

-There may be long delays while eVC++ computes dependencies, and expect
-to wait a long time for loading and saving workspaces. Do not attempt to
-save the wxWidgets library project file: it will take forever and generate
-a huge file, so make alterations either using Bakefile or by editing the
-project file with a text editor, and reloading. Sample project files are OK
-to save.
+<bakefile-gen xmlns="http://www.bakefile.org/schema/bakefile-gen">
+    <add-formats>msvs2008prj(arm)</add-formats>
+    <add-flags files="wx.bkl" formats="msvs2008prj(arm)">
+        -o ../msw/wx_vc9arm.sln -DMSVS_PLATFORMS=pocketpc2003 -DCOMPILER_PREFIX=vc9arm
+    </add-flags>
+    <add-flags files="../../samples/*/*" formats="msvs2008prj(arm)">
+        -o $(INPUT_FILE_DIR)/$(INPUT_FILE_BASENAME_NOEXT)_vc9arm.sln -DMSVS_PLATFORMS=pocketpc2003 -DCOMPILER_PREFIX=vc9arm
+    </add-flags>
+</bakefile-gen>

 
 

-To compile using the emulator on eVC++3:
+Notice that this will create the output files in the directories using "vc9arm"
+prefix instead of the usual "vc" one which allows to build the normal wxMSW and
+wxCE in the same wxWidgets source tree. You're, of course, free, to use
+different names for the project files suffix and the output directories prefix
+if you wish.

 
 

-- Open build/wince/wx.vcw, select the
-  WIN32 (WCE x86) Debug Unicode configuration, close the dialog,
-  then select Pocket PC 2002 and Pocket PC 2002 Emulation on the toolbar,
-  and compile.
+Then do

 
 

-- Open samples/minimal/minimal.vcw, select the
-  WIN32 (WCE x86 Debug) configuration, and select Pocket PC 2002 and
-  Pocket PC 2002 Emulation as before.
+cd %WXWIN%\build\bakefiles
+bakefile_gen -f msvs2008prj

 
 

-To compile using the emulator on eVC++4:
+to create all *vc9arm.vcproj files. After this, simply open the solution file
+in Visual Studio and build it.

 
 

-- Open build/wince/wx.vcw, select the
-  WIN32 (WCE Emulator) Debug configuration, and compile.
-
-- Open samples/minimal/minimal.vcw with eVC++, select the
-  WIN32 (WCE emulator) Debug configuration, and compile.
-
-Note: builds for the different SDKs (Smartphone, PPC, .Net)
-use the same directory and library names, so for the moment
-these builds cannot co-exist simultaneously.
-
-To use Visual Studio 2005, you need to allow VS to convert the projects
-first (but install all the SDKs you need to _before_ converting), and then
-you need to adjust the library settings of each wxWidgets and sample project.
-
-Edit the configuration properties for each configuration and in the Librarian,
-add a relative path ..\..\lib to each library path. For example:
-
-..\$(PlatformName)\$(ConfigurationName)\wx_mono.lib
-
-Then, for a sample you want to compile, edit the configuration properties
-and make sure ..\..\lib\$(PlatformName)\$(ConfigurationName) is in the Linker/General/Additional
-Library Directories property. Also change the Linker/Input/Additional Dependencies
-property to something like:
-
-coredll.lib wx_mono.lib wx_wxjpeg.lib wx_wxpng.lib wx_wxzlib.lib wx_wxexpat.lib commctrl.lib winsock.lib wininet.lib
-
-since the library names in the wxWidgets workspace were changed
-by VS 2005.

 
 Status
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 Status
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@@ -139,15 +71,8 @@ about how to use wxWidgets with Windows CE, and further
 work that needs to be done, see the wxWinCE topic in the
 reference manual, and also:
 
 work that needs to be done, see the wxWinCE topic in the
 reference manual, and also:
 

-http://wiki.wxwindows.org/wiki.pl?Developers_Notebook/WxWinCE
+http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Developers_Notebook/WxWinCE

 
 The "Life!" demo in demos/life has some adaptations for
 wxWinCE, and also demonstrates how to make an installer for
 a Pocket PC application.
 
 The "Life!" demo in demos/life has some adaptations for
 wxWinCE, and also demonstrates how to make an installer for
 a Pocket PC application.

-
-Disclaimer
-==========
-
-All product names are used for identification purposes and are trademarks 
-or registered trademarks owned by their respective companies.
-