added static wxPlatformInfo::Get() and use it (patch 1549176)

[wxWidgets.git] / docs / tech / tn0016.txt

diff --git a/docs/tech/tn0016.txt b/docs/tech/tn0016.txt
index 88fbebcf5921de5c9a110a7e299bb6c621359df5..15a1792003f722f91f092272c97283957842ef9c 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/tech/tn0016.txt
+++ b/docs/tech/tn0016.txt
@@ -116,9 +116,15 @@ in the sample's bakefile (see e.g. samples/image/image.bkl for an example).
 Make sure to add <wx-lib> statements for all libraries from multilib build
 that are required by the sample.
 
+The Windows resource specification should use the central .rc file:
+
+        <win32-res>../sample.rc</win32-res>
+        
 Run bakefile_gen in $(wx)/build/bakefiles to regenerate the bakefiles.
 
-Finally commit $(wx)/build/bakefiles/Makefile and all the other modified files.
+Finally commit $(wx)/build/bakefiles/make_dist.mk and all the other modified files.
+
+Currently we commit the generated makefiles except .dms, .vcp.
 
 
 5. Adding contrib library
@@ -174,19 +180,20 @@ a) Add files to files.bkl:
 b) Modify bakefile system in build/bakefiles/ to recognize wxFoo:
    * Add 'foo' to MAIN_LIBS and LIBS_NOGUI or LIBS_GUI (depending on whether
      the library depends on wxCore or not) to wxwin.py file.
-   * Add the library to EXTRALIBS in wxwin.py
+   * Add extra libraries needed by wxFoo (if any) to EXTRALIBS in wxwin.py
    * Add WXLIB_FOO definition to common.bkl (into the "Names of component
      libraries" section). It looks like this:
        <set var="WXLIB_FOO">
           <if cond="MONOLITHIC=='0'">$(mk.evalExpr(wxwin.mkLibName('foo')))</if>
        </set>
 
-c) Add files to monolithic build: it's enough to add FOO_SRC to MONOLIB_GUI_SRC
-   or MONOLIB_SRC, depending on whether wxFoo uses GUI or not.
+c) Modify monolithic.bkl to add files to monolithic build: it's enough to add
+   FOO_SRC to MONOLIB_GUI_SRC or MONOLIB_SRC, depending on whether wxFoo uses
+   GUI or not.
 
-d) Add files to multilib build: add foolib and foodll targets. Don't use
-   wxBase targets as the template, use e.g. wxXML or wxHTML. Make sure
-   WXMAKINGDLL_FOO is defined in foodll.
+d) Modify multilib.bkl to add files to multilib build: add foolib and foodll
+   targets. Don't use wxBase targets as the template, use e.g. wxXML or wxHTML.
+   Make sure WXMAKINGDLL_FOO is defined in foodll.
 
 e) Regenerate all makefiles (don't forget to run autoconf)
 
@@ -220,8 +227,13 @@ h) Add this code to one of wxFoo's files (the more often used, the better):
       WX_CHECK_BUILD_OPTIONS("wxFoo")
 
 i) Add information about wxFoo to the manual ("Libraries list" section
-   in libs.tex).
+   in libs.tex) and update docs/latex/wx/libs.dia (you need Dia for this)
+   to show the dependencies of the new library.
 
+j) Also please add 4 #pragma comment(lib, "foo") (for Unicode/ANSI
+   Release/Debug combinations) to the file include/msvc/wx/setup.h and
+   add a check for WXMAKINGDLL_FOO to the test whether we're building a DLL at
+   the end of include/wx/msw/chkconf.h.
 
 === EOF ===