Ensure that the command-line compiler and tools (including
nmake) are installed and ready to run. Depending on your
-installation there may be a batch file (named something like
-VCVARS32.BAT) that needs to be run to set correct environment
-varaibles and PATH entries.
+installation there may be a batch file (commonly named VCVARS32.BAT)
+that needs to be run to set correct environment variables and PATH entries.
Continue with item c) below.
You can get MinGW from http://www.mingw.org/
-Cygwin is available at http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/
+Cygwin is available at http://www.cygwin.com/
If you are using Cygwin or MinGW together with the MSYS environment, you
can build the library using configure (see "Unix ports" and
"Windows using configure" below). You can also
-build wxWindows without configure using native makefile, but only with
+build wxWidgets without configure using native makefile, but only with
MinGW. Using Cygwin together with Windows makefile is no longer supported.
-If building with Mingw without configure:
+If building with MinGW without configure:
-> Set your path so that it includes the directory
where your compiler and tools reside
c) Build instructions
--> Assumming that you installed the wxWindows sources
- 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 to choose
- the features you would like to compile wxWindows with[out].
+Assumming that you installed the wxWidgets sources
+into c:\wxWidgets:
+
+-> Copy c:\wxWidgets\include\wx\msw\setup0.h
+ to c:\wxWidgets\include\wx\msw\setup.h
+-> Edit c:\wxWidgets\include\wx\msw\setup.h to choose
+ the features you would like to compile wxWidgets with[out].
and std iostreams are disabled with
#define wxUSE_STD_IOSTREAM 0
--> type: cd c:\wxWin\build\win32
+-> type: cd c:\wxWidgets\build\msw
-> type: make -f makefile.gcc (if using GNU tools)
or type: nmake -f makefile.vc (if using MS VC++)
etc.
d) Borland (including free command line tools)
Download tools from http://www.borland.com/downloads/
- See docs/msw/install.txt for details; in brief
+ See docs/msw/install.txt for details; in brief:
--> type cd %WXWIN%\build\win32
+-> type cd c:\wxWidgets\build\msw
-> type make -f makefile.bcc
You can customize many things in the build process, detailed description is
on your system and type run "autoconf" in the base
directory (or run the autogen.sh script in the same
directory, which just calls autoconf). Note that you usually don't
-need to do this because configure is included in cVS.
+need to do this because configure is included in CVS.
Set WXWIN environment variable to the base directory such
-as ~/wxWindows (this is actually not really needed).
+as ~/wxWidgets (this is actually not really needed).
--> type: export WXWIN=~/wxWindows
+-> type: export WXWIN=~/wxWidgets
-> type: md mybuild
-> type: cd mybuild
-> type: ../configure --with-motif
III) Windows using configure
----------------------------------------
-wxWindows can be built on Windows using MSYS (see
+wxWidgets 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).
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Refer to the readme.txt and install.txt files in docs/mac to build
-wxWindows under Classic Mac OS using CodeWarrior.
+wxWidgets under Classic Mac OS using CodeWarrior.
If you are checking out the CVS sources using cvs under Mac OS X and
compiling under Classic Mac OS:
VI) OS/2
----------------------------------------
+No notes.
VII) Unix->Windows cross-compiling using configure
--------------------------------------------------
You might want to build both Unix and Windows binaries in the same source
tree; to do this make subdirs for each e.g. unix and win32. If you've
-already build wxWindows in the main dir, do a 'make distclean' there,
+already build wxWidgets in the main dir, do a 'make distclean' there,
otherwise configure will get confused. (In any case, read the section 'Unix
-using configure' and make sure you're able to build a native wxWindows
+using configure' and make sure you're able to build a native wxWidgets
library; cross-compiling errors can be pretty obscure and you'll want to be
sure that your configure setup is basically sound.)