* The most simple case
-----------------------
-If you compile wxWindows on Unix for the first time and don't like to read
+If you compile wxWindows on Linux for the first time and don't like to read
install instructions just do (in the base dir):
-./configure
-make
-su <type root password>
-make install
-ldconfig
-exit
+> ./configure --with-gtk
+> make
+> su <type root password>
+> make install
+> ldconfig
+> exit
+
+Afterwards you can continue with
+
+> make
+> su <type root password>
+> make install
+> ldconfig
+> exit
If you want to remove wxWindows on Unix you can do this:
-su <type root password>
-make uninstall
-ldconfig
-exit
+> su <type root password>
+> make uninstall
+> ldconfig
+> exit
* The expert case
-----------------
and test them concurrently. Most typically, this would be a version configured
with --enable-debug_flag and one without. Note, that only one build can currently
be installed, so you'd have to use local version of the library for that purpose.
-For building three version, one GTK, one Motif and a debug version of the GTK
-source, you'd do this:
+For building three versions (one GTK, one Motif and a debug version of the GTK
+source) you'd do this:
md buildmotif
cd buildmotif
md buildgtkd
cd buildgtkd
-../configure --with-gtk --enable-debug
+../configure --with-gtk --enable-debug_flag
make
cd ..
* The most simple errors
------------------------
-configure reports, that you don't have GTK 1.X installed although you are
-certainly sure you have. Well, you have installed it, but you also have another
-version of the GTK installed, which you may need to removed including other
+configure reports, that you don't have GTK 1.2 installed although you are
+very sure you have. Well, you have installed it, but you also have another
+version of the GTK installed, which you may need to remove including other
versions of glib (and its headers). Also, look for the PATH variable and check
if it includes the path to the correct gtk-config! The check your LDPATH if it
points to the correct library. There is no way to compile wxGTK if configure
Now create your super-application myfoo.app and compile anywhere with
-g++ myfoo.cpp `wx-config --libs --cflags` -o myfoo
+gcc myfoo.cpp `wx-config --libs --cflags` -o myfoo
* General
-----------------------
-----------------------
wxWindows/GTK requires the GTK+ library to be installed on your system. It has to
-be a stable version, preferebly version 1.2.3. You can use GTK 1.0 in connection
-with wxWindows, but only without Drag'n'Drop. wxWindows does work with the 1.1.X
-versions of the GTK+ library.
+be a stable version, preferebly version 1.2.3.
You can get the newest version of the GTK+ from the GTK homepage at:
http://www.gtk.org
-We also mirror GTK+ 1.2.1 at my ftp site soon. You'll find information about downloading
+We also mirror GTK+ 1.2.3 at my ftp site. You'll find information about downloading
at my homepage.
* Additional libraries
ldconfig
exit
-NB: DO NOT COMPILE WXGTK WITH GCC AND THREADS, SINCE ALL PROGRAMS WILL CRASH UPON
+NB: DO NOT COMPILE WXGTK WITH GCC 2.7 AND THREADS, SINCE ALL PROGRAMS WILL CRASH UPON
START-UP! Just always use egcs and be happy.
* Building wxGTK on OS/2
Please send comments and question about the OS/2 installation
to Andrea Venturoli <a.ventu@flashnet.it> and patches to
-make the installation work (better) to me (Robert Roebling).
+the wxWindows mailing list.
-You'll need OS/2 Warp (4.00FP#6), X-Free86/2 (3.3.3),
-gtk+ (?), emx (0.9d fix 1), flex (2.5.4), yacc (1.8),
-korn shell (5.2.13), Autoconf (?), GNU file utilities (3.6),
+You'll need OS/2 Warp (4.00FP#6), X-Free86/2 (3.3.3 or newer),
+GTK+ (1.2.5 or newer), emx (0.9d fix 1), flex (2.5.4), yacc (1.8),
+korn shell (5.2.13), Autoconf (2.13), GNU file utilities (3.6),
GNU text utilities (1.3), GNU shell utilites (1.12), m4 (1.4),
sed (2.05), grep (2.0), Awk (3.0.3), GNU Make (3.76.1).
First set some global environment variables we need:
SET CXXFLAGS=-Zmtd -D__ST_MT_ERRNO__
+SET CFLAGS=-Zmtd -D__ST_MT_ERRNO__
SET OSTYPE=OS2X
SET COMSPEC=sh
Notice you can choose whatever you want, if you don't like OS2X.
+Now, run autoconf in the main directory and in the samples, demos
+and utils subdirectory. This will generate the OS/2 specific
+versions of the configure scripts. Now run
+ configure --with-gtk
+as described above.
+
+If you have pthreads library installed, but have a gtk version
+which does not yet support threading, you need to explicitly
+diable threading by using the option --disable-threads.
+
+Note that configure assumes your flex will generate files named
+"lexyy.c", not "lex.yy.c". If you have a version which does
+generate "lex.yy.c", you need to manually change the generated
+makefile.
+
* Building wxGTK on SGI
--------------------------
* General options
-------------------
-The confiugre options have not yet been thoroughly tested
-in wxWindows snapshot 6.
+Given below are the commands to change the default behaviour,
+i.e. if it says "--disable-threads" it means that threads
+are enabled by default.
Normally, you won't have to choose a toolkit, because when
you download wxGTK, it will default to --with-gtk etc. But
if you use all of our CVS repository you have to choose a
toolkit. You must do this by running configure with either of:
- --with-gtk Use the GIMP ToolKit (GTK)
+ --without-gtk Don't use the GIMP ToolKit (GTK)
--with-motif Use either Motif or Lesstif
Configure will look for both.
The following options handle the kind of library you want to build.
- --disable-threads Compile without thread support. Threads
- support is also required for the
- socket code to work.
+ --disable-threads Compile without thread support.
--disable-shared Do not create shared libraries.
- --disable-optimise Do not optimise the code. Can
+ --enable-static Create static libraries.
+
+ --disable-optimise Do not optimise the code. Can
sometimes be useful for debugging
and is required on some architectures
such as Sun with gcc 2.8.X which
would otherwise produce segvs.
--enable-profile Add profiling info to the object
- files. Currently broken, I think.
+ files. Currently broken, I think.
+
+ --enable-no_rtti Enable compilation without creation of
+ C++ RTTI information in object files.
+ This will speed-up compilation and reduce
+ binary size.
+
+ --enable-no_exceptions Enable compilation without creation of
+ C++ exception information in object files.
+ This will speed-up compilation and reduce
+ binary size. Also fewer crashes during the
+ actual compilation...
+
+ --enable-no_deps Enable compilation without creation of
+ dependency information.
- --enable-mem_tracing Add built-in memory tracing.
+ --enable-permissive Enable compilation without creation of
+ giving erros as soon as you compile with
+ Solaris' ANSI-defying headers.
+
+ --enable-mem_tracing Add built-in memory tracing.
--enable-dmalloc Use the dmalloc memory debugger.
Read more at www.letters.com/dmalloc/
- --enable-debug_info Add debug info to object files and
+ --enable-debug_info Add debug info to object files and
executables for use with debuggers
- such as gdb (or its many frontends).
+ such as gdb (or its many frontends).
- --enable-debug_flag Define __DEBUG__ and __WXDEBUG__ when
+ --enable-debug_flag Define __DEBUG__ and __WXDEBUG__ when
compiling. This enable wxWindows' very
useful internal debugging tricks (such
as automatically reporting illegal calls)
* Feature Options
-------------------
-The confiugre options have not yet been thoroughly tested
-in wxWindows snapshot 6.
-
When producing an executable that is linked statically with wxGTK
you'll be surprised at its immense size. This can sometimes be
drastically reduced by removing features from wxWindows that
are not used in your program. The most relevant such features
are
- --without-libpng Disables PNG image format code.
+ --with-odbc Enables ODBC code. This is disabled
+ by default because iODBC is under the
+ L-GPL license.
+
+ --without-libpng Disables PNG image format code.
+
+ --without-libjpeg Disables JPEG image format code.
+
+ --without-libtiff Disables TIFF image format code.
+
+ --disable-pnm Disables PNM image format code.
- --without-libjpeg Disables JPEG image format code.
+ --disable-gif Disables GIF image format code.
- --without-odbc Disables ODBC code.
+ --disable-pcx Disables PCX image format code.
- --disable-wxresources Disables the use of *.wxr type
+ --disable-resources Disables the use of *.wxr type
resources.
--disable-threads Disables threads. Will also
--disable-streams Disables the wxStream classes.
+ --disable-file Disables the wxFile class.
+
+ --disable-textfile Disables the wxTextFile class.
+
+ --disable-intl Disables the internationalisation.
+
+ --disable-validators Disables validators.
+
+ --disable-accel Disables accel.
+
Apart from disabling certain features you can very often "strip"
the program of its debugging information resulting in a significant
reduction in size.
386SX possibly two weeks. During compilation, you'll get a few
warning messages depending in your compiler.
-if you want to be more selective, you can change into a specific
+If you want to be more selective, you can change into a specific
directiry and type "make" there.
Then you may install the library and it's header files under
If you want to save disk space by removing unnecessary
object-files:
- make clean
+ make clean
in the various directories will do the work for you.
1) The first way uses the installed libraries and header files
automatically using wx-config
-g++ myfoo.cpp `wx-config --libs` `wx-config --cflags` -o myfoo
+gcc myfoo.cpp `wx-config --cflags --libs` -o myfoo
Using this way, a make file for the minimal sample would look
like this
-CC = g++
+CC = gcc
minimal: minimal.o
$(CC) -o minimal minimal.o `wx-config --libs`
2) The other way creates a project within the source code
directories of wxWindows. For this endeavour, you'll need
-the usual number of GNU tools, at least
-
-GNU automake version 1.4
-GNU autoheader version 2.14
-GNU autoconf version 2.14
-
-and quite possibly
-
-GNU make
-GNU cc
-
-and if you have all this then you probably know enough to
-go ahead yourself :-)
+GNU autoconf version 2.14 and add an entry to your Makefile.in
+to the bottom of the configure.in script and run autoconf
+and configure before you can type make.
----------------------
In the hope that it will be useful,
- Robert Roebling <roebling@sun2.ruf.uni-freiburg.de>
-
-
+ Robert Roebling
+