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/
-The makefile might have small problems with Cygwin's tools
-so it is recommended to use MinGW and its toolchain instead
-if possible.
+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 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:
-> Set your path so that it includes the directory
where your compiler and tools reside
--> If your are using an old MinGW version (gcc-2.95 or older),
- you might need to fix some headers with the patches contained
- in the wxWin\Mingw32-gcc295.patches file. PLEASE APPLY THESE
- PATCHES BY HAND! There are apparently a few different versions
- of the headers floating around. Note that these patches are
- not needed if you are using MinGW gcc-2.95.2 or newer.
-
--> Edit wx/src/makeg95.env and set the MINGW32 variable at the top of
- the file to either 1 (you have MinGW) or 0 (you have Cygwin).
- Also set the MINGW32VERSION variable appropiately.
+-> Make sure you have GNU Make installed. It must be Windows native version.
+ Download it from http://www.mingw.org, the executable will be called
+ mingw32-make.exe.
+
+-> Modern version of MinGW is required; preferably MinGW 2.0 (with gcc3),
+ but MinGW with gcc-2.95.3 will suffice. If you are using 2.95, you will
+ have to change variable GCC_VERSION in config.gcc (see msw/install.txt
+ for details).
+
+If using configure, Unix instructions apply.
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\src\msw
--> type: make -f makefile.g95 (if using GNU tools)
+-> 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.
See also docs/msw/install.txt for additional compilation options.
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 c:\wxWidgets\build\msw
+-> type make -f makefile.bcc
+
+You can customize many things in the build process, detailed description is
+in docs/msw/install.txt.
--> type set WXWIN=c:\wxwindows
--> type cd %WXWIN%\src\msw
--> type make -f makefile.b32
II) Unix ports
--------------
configure to create what is needed.
In order to create configure, you need to have the
-GNU autoconf package (version 2.13 or 2.14) installed
+GNU autoconf package (version > 2.54) installed
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).
+directory, which just calls autoconf). Note that you usually don't
+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).
----------------------------------------
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:
registration) in order to download the Developer Tools installer.
In order to create configure, you need to have the
-GNU autoconf package (version 2.13 or 2.14) installed
+GNU autoconf package (version >= 2.54) installed
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).
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.)