-wxWidgets 2.6.2 for MGL installation
-------------------------------------
+wxWidgets for MGL installation
+------------------------------
IMPORTANT NOTE:
+ wxMGL is currently in need of some work to bring it up to the
+ standard of some of the other wxWidgets ports.
+
If you experience problems installing, please re-read these
instructions and other related files (todo.txt, bugs.txt and
osname.txt for your platform if it exists) carefully before
mailing wxwin-users or the author. Preferably, try to fix the
problem first and then send a patch to the author.
-
- When sending bug reports tell us what version of wxWidgets you are
- using (including the beta) and what compiler on what system. One
- example: wxMGL 2.6.2, gcc 2.95.3, Redhat 7.0
+
+ When sending bug reports tell us what version of wxWidgets you are
+ using (including the beta) and what compiler on what system. One
+ example: wxMGL 2.8.0, gcc 2.95.3, Redhat 7.0
First steps
-----------
-- Download SciTech MGL library (version 5.0) from http://www.scitechsoft.com.
- The downloads page is here (you need MGL version 5.0beta7 or newer):
+- Download SciTech MGL library from http://www.scitechsoft.com. The
+ downloads page is here (you need MGL version 5.0beta7 or newer):
http://scitechsoft.com/products/dev/mgl_download/mgl_down.html
-
+
Install MGL according to provided instructions. In particular, make sure that
MGL_ROOT and NUCLEUS_PATH environment variables are set before attempting to
build wxMGL.
Make sure you installed all MGL components, including the "fonts" package
- (it's called mgl50b7-font.tar.gz in Linux version). It is important to have
+ (it's called mgl_<ver>-font.tar.gz in Linux version). It is important to have
SciTech's basic fonts in $(MGL_ROOT)/fonts directory (you may want to add
- Arial TrueType font for better output quality) and basic cursors in
+ Arial TrueType font for better output quality) and basic cursors in
$(MGL_ROOT)/cursors. wxMGL depends on their presence.
- Download wxMGL-x.y.z.tgz, where x.y.z is the version number.
- Make a directory such as ~/wx and unarchive the files into this
directory.
-- It is recommended that you install bison and flex; using yacc
- and lex may require tweaking of the makefiles.
-
- You can now use configure or makefiles to build wxWidgets and the samples.
In case of problems, please use GNU make.
----------------------------
These instructions apply to installation on a Unix system (such as Linux). Please
-see bellow for information on using configure on non-Unix platforms.
+see below for information on using configure on non-Unix platforms.
-If you compile wxWidgets on Linux for the first time and don't like to read
+If you compile wxWidgets on Linux for the first time and don't like to read
install instructions just do (in the base dir):
> ./configure --with-mgl
needed libraries. See an example of wxWidgets application makefile:
minimal: minimal.o
- $(CC) -o minimal minimal.o `wx-config --libs`
+ $(CXX) -o minimal minimal.o `wx-config --libs`
-minimal.o: minimal.cpp mondrian.xpm
- $(CC) `wx-config --cxxflags` -c minimal.cpp -o minimal.o
+minimal.o: minimal.cpp
+ $(CXX) `wx-config --cxxflags` -c minimal.cpp -o minimal.o
* Using configure to build MS-DOS version
whic211b.zip B 86,296 000911 GNU which 2.11 for DJGPP V2
The system you compile on must support long file names. You can use Windows 9x
-or Windows 2000/XP or later. For example:
+or an x86 version of Windows 2000/XP or later. For example:
C:\>set MGL_ROOT=c:/scitech
C:\>set DJGPP=c:/djgpp/djgpp.env
> ./configure --with-mgl --build=i586-linux --host=i586-pc-msdosdjgpp
> make
-For this to work, you must have installed a cross compiler on your system. Ready
-made binaries are not available for very many systems, so usually this means you
-must obtain the djgpp sources and compile them yourself.
+For this to work, you must have installed a cross compiler on your system.
+
+Linux rpms are available here:
+ http://ap1.pp.fi/djgpp/gcc/cross-compiler/index.html
-NetBSD does have a binary package which can be installed with:
+NetBSD has a binary package which can be installed with:
# pkg_add cross-i386-msdosdjgpp
-You can also try asking on the wx-dev mailing list. If someone else has already
-built a cross-compiler for you platform they may be willing to send you the
-binaries.
+For other systems you will need to obtain the djgpp sources and compile them
+yourself.
* Building wxMGL for MS-DOS using Watcom C/C++
-----------------------------------------------
-You will need Watcom C/C++ compiler version 11 or newer (Watcom is going to be
+<Note: this section is currently out of date>
+
+You will need Watcom C/C++ compiler version 11 or newer (Watcom is going to be
OpenSourced by SciTech, check out http://www.openwatcom.org).
1. Edit $(WXDIR)\include\wx\univ\setup.h to suit your needs (in same way as you
> wmake -f makefile.wat all
3. You can compile the samples by typing 'wmake -f makefile.mgl all' in sample
- directory if this file is available. If it is not, copy makefile.wat to
+ directory if this file is available. If it is not, copy makefile.wat to
makefile.mgl and replace the line that says
!include $(WXDIR)\src\makeprog.wat
!include $(WXDIR)\src\mgl\makeprog.wat
-Compilation notes for MGL 5.1
------------------------------
+Compilation notes for MGL with gcc
+----------------------------------
The mvis library doesn't compile with current versions of gcc. However wxMGL
does not use this part of MGL, so it can be taken out of the compile, e.g.:
--- scitech/src/makefile.orig 2004-04-15 20:36:32.000000000 +0100
+++ scitech/src/makefile 2005-04-26 01:50:12.000000000 +0100
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
-
+
# Target to build libraries for one compiler for SciTech MGL Graphics Library
-
+
-all_mgl: $(T_PM) $(T_GCONSOLE) $(T_SNAP) $(T_TECH) $(T_MVIS) $(T_FIXED) \
+all_mgl: $(T_PM) $(T_GCONSOLE) $(T_SNAP) $(T_TECH) $(T_FIXED) \
$(T_GM) $(T_GLUT) $(T_MGL)
@$(ECHO) =============================================================================
@$(ECHO) DONE: Single compiler MGL build completed successfully!
-The dos version of _lztimer.asm can't be assembled by the GNU assember. A
-newer version is available from Scitech, a patch between the version in MGL
-5.1 and the newer version is included below:
-
---- scitech/src/pm/dos/_lztimer.asm.orig 2004-04-15 20:36:33.000000000 +0100
-+++ scitech/src/pm/dos/_lztimer.asm 2005-04-26 18:39:57.000000000 +0100
-@@ -4,11 +4,11 @@
- ;*
- ;* ========================================================================
- ;*
--;* Copyright (C) 1991-2002 SciTech Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
-+;* Copyright (C) 1991-2004 SciTech Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
- ;*
- ;* This file may be distributed and/or modified under the terms of the
--;* GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 as published by the Free
--;* Software Foundation and appearing in the file LICENSE.LGPL included
-+;* GNU General Public License version 2.0 as published by the Free
-+;* Software Foundation and appearing in the file LICENSE.GPL included
- ;* in the packaging of this file.
- ;*
- ;* Licensees holding a valid Commercial License for this product from
-@@ -288,8 +288,8 @@
- ; Convert the BIOS time to microseconds
-
- @@CalcBIOSTime:
-- mov ax,[WORD EndBIOSCount]
-- sub ax,[WORD StartBIOSCount]
-+ mov ax,[EndBIOSCount]
-+ sub ax,[StartBIOSCount]
- mov dx,54925 ; Number of microseconds each
- ; BIOS count represents.
- mul dx
-@@ -352,17 +352,17 @@
- ; See if more than an hour passed during timing. If so, notify the user.
-
- @@CheckForHour:
-- mov ax,[WORD StartBIOSCount+2]
-- cmp ax,[WORD EndBIOSCount+2]
-+ mov ax,[StartBIOSCount+2]
-+ cmp ax,[EndBIOSCount+2]
- jz @@CalcBIOSTime ; Hour count didn't change, so
- ; everything is fine
-
- inc ax
-- cmp ax,[WORD EndBIOSCount+2]
-+ cmp ax,[EndBIOSCount+2]
- jnz @@TestTooLong ; Two hour boundaries passed, so the
- ; results are no good
-- mov ax,[WORD EndBIOSCount]
-- cmp ax,[WORD StartBIOSCount]
-+ mov ax,[EndBIOSCount]
-+ cmp ax,[StartBIOSCount]
- jb @@CalcBIOSTime ; a single hour boundary passed. That's
- ; OK, so long as the total time wasn't
- ; more than an hour.
-@@ -384,8 +384,8 @@
- ; Convert the BIOS time to microseconds
-
- @@CalcBIOSTime:
-- mov ax,[WORD EndBIOSCount]
-- sub ax,[WORD StartBIOSCount]
-+ mov ax,[EndBIOSCount]
-+ sub ax,[StartBIOSCount]
- mov dx,54925 ; Number of microseconds each
- ; BIOS count represents.
- mul dx
-
+The following small change is also required to include/tcl/hashmap.hpp:
+
+--- scitech/include/tcl/hashtab.hpp.orig 2006-01-20 19:51:12.000000000 +0000
++++ scitech/include/tcl/hashtab.hpp 2006-01-22 14:12:12.000000000 +0000
+@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
+ TCHashTableNode **prev;
+
+ friend class TCGenHashTable;
+- friend ostream& operator << (ostream& o,TCGenHashTable& h);
++ friend ostream& operator << (ostream& o, class TCGenHashTable& h);
+ public:
+ // Constructor to satisfy some compilers :-(
+ TCHashTableNode() {};
+
Bug reports
-----------
Please send bug reports with a description of your environment,
compiler and the error message(s) to the wxwin-developers mailing list at:
- wx-dev@lists.wxwindows.org
+ wx-dev@lists.wxwidgets.org
Vaclav Slavik, Julian Smart, Robert Roebling and Vadim Zeitlin, February 2002.
+Mike Wetherell 2005/2006