wxWindows 2.0 for Motif installation
------------------------------------
+IMPORTANT NOTE: If you experience problems installing, please re-read this
+ 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.
+
- Prerequisites: Motif 1.2 or above, or Lesstif
(not yet tested). Motif 2.0 and above may also be suitable.
- It is recommended that you install bison and flex; using yacc
and lex may require tweaking of the makefiles. You also need
- Xpm (see comments in the Notes section below).
+ libXpm (see comments in the Notes section below) if you want to have
+ XPM support in wxWindows (recommended).
+
+- You now have the option of using the configure-based system, or the simple
+ makefile system.
-- You now have the option of using the configure-based system,
- or the simple makefile system. Configure is more hard to debug
- if things go wrong, but may be easier to use if they go OK :-)
- Makefiles are easier to tweak.
+ Using configure is the recommended way to build the library. If it doesn't
+ work for you for whatever reason, please report it (together with detailed
+ information about your platform and the (relevant part of) contents of
+ config.log file) to wxwin-developers@wx.dent.med.uni-muenchen.de.
COMPILING USING CONFIGURE
=========================
# and makes wxMotif.
# Call from top-level wxWindows directory.
# Note that this uses standard (but commonly-used) configure options;
- # if you're feeling brave, you may wish to compile with threads.
+ # if you're feeling brave, you may wish to compile with threads:
+ # if they're not supported by the target platform, they will be disabled
+ # anyhow
# -- Julian Smart
chmod a+x configure config.sub config.guess setup/general/* setup/shared/*
./configure --with-shared --with-motif --without-gtk --with-debug_flag --with-debug_info --without-threads
- make makefiles
make
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that the makefile refers to wx-config as above. Unless you have used
"make install" to install wxWindows, wx-config won't be found, so
either edit the makefile to hard-wire the flags, or place wx-config
- where it will be found by the makefile.
+ where it will be found by the makefile, or add the directory where you have
+ installed wxWindows to your PATH.
+
+- If switching between wxMotif and wxGTK, you should remove the
+ config.cache file manually before running configure again.
COMPILING USING MAKEFILES
=========================
+- Copy the file include/wx/motif/setup0.h to include/wx/motif/setup.h and
+ edit it if you wish to enable/disable some library features
+
- Choose a .env file from src/makeenvs that matches your
environment, and copy it to src/make.env. These are the
settings read by wxWindows for Motif makefiles.
and run the resulting minimal_motif binary.
-Notes:
-------
+Troubleshooting
+---------------
+
+- If you have trouble compiling the file y_tab.c, or have strange
+ linking errors, check whether you're using a C or C++ compiler for this file.
+ You should specify a C compiler in the CCLEX variable in src/make.env.
+ You could also try using bison and flex instead of yacc and
+ lex.
+
+- Solaris compilation with gcc: if the compiler has problems with the variable argument
+ functions, try putting the gcc fixinclude file paths early in the include
+ path.
+
+- If you operator-related compile errors or strange memory problems
+ (for example in deletion of string arrays), set wxUSE_GLOBAL_MEMORY_OPERATORS
+ and wxUSE_MEMORY_TRACING to 0 in setup.h, and recompile.
+
+- If you get an internal compiler error in gcc, turn off optimisations.
+
+- Problems with XtDestroyWidget crashing in ~wxWindow have been
+ reported on SGI IRIX 6.4. This has not yet been resolved, so
+ any advice here would be very welcome. See bugs.txt for a
+ possible temporary workaround (comment out the final
+ XtDestroyWidget from ~wxWindow in window.cpp).
+
+- If you use flex and bison instead of yacc and lex, you may need
+ to change the relevant part of src/motif/makefile.unx to read:
+
+ ../common/y_tab.c: ../common/parser.y
+ $(YACC) ../common/parser.y
+ mv ../common/parser.tab.c ../common/y_tab.c
+
+ (the 'mv' command needs to be changed)
+
+- Some compilers, such as Sun C++, may give a lot of warnings about
+ virtual functions being hidden. Please ignore these, it's correct C++ syntax.
+ If you find any incorrect instances, though, such as a
+ missing 'const' in an overridden function, please let us know.
+
+Other Notes
+-----------
- Better installation and makefile systems are
required. A revised configure system is in preparation.
-- Debugging mode is switched on by default. To compile in non-debug
+- Debugging mode is switched on by default in the makefiles, but using
+ configure will create a release build of the library by default: it's
+ recommended to use --with-debug_info and --with-debug_flag configure
+ switches while developing your application. To compile in non-debug
mode, remove the -D__WXDEBUG__ switch in make.env (or if using the
configure system, change --with-debug_flag to --without_debug_flag
and --with-debug_info to --without-debug_info in the makewxmotif
- Thread support is switched off by default in setup.h (wxUSE_THREADS)
because standard Unices often do not have the necessary thread library
installed. Please see ../docs/gtk/install.txt for more details on this.
- For Linux, the problem is expected to go away with future
- distributions of the operating system.
-
-- If you have trouble compiling the file y_tab.c, or have strange
- linking errors, check whether you're using a C or C++ compiler for this file.
- You should specify a C compiler in the CCLEX variable in src/make.env.
+ The systems for which thread support is known to work are Linux with libc6
+ (a.k.a. glibc2), Solaris 2.5 and 2.6 (provided that X libraries are thread
+ safe) and, to some extent, FreeBSD 2.8 and 3.1 (any feedback on thread
+ support under FreeBSD as well as the systems not mentioned here would be
+ appreciated).
- If you run into problems with a missing X11/Xpm.h header, you
need to install the XPM package. It can be obtained from:
to 0, and recompile. You will not be able to load any XPMs,
though (currently the only supported colour bitmap format).
-- Please send bug reports with a description of your environment,
- compiler and the error message(s) to the wxwin-users mailing list at:
+Bug reports
+-----------
- wxwin-users@wx.dent.med.uni-muenchen.de
+Please send bug reports with a description of your environment,
+compiler and the error message(s) to the wxwin-developers mailing list at:
+ wxwin-developers@wx.dent.med.uni-muenchen.de
-Julian Smart, January 1999.
+Julian Smart, February 1999.
julian.smart@ukonline.co.uk
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