-Installing wxWindows 2.3
-------------------------
+Installing wxWindows 2.3.3
+--------------------------
-This is wxWindows 2.3 for Microsoft Windows 9x/ME, Windows NT,
+This is wxWindows 2.3.3 for Microsoft Windows 9x/ME, Windows NT,
Windows 2000 and Windows XP. This is an unstable development release.
Please note that the library naming conventions for VC++
-compilation have changed between 2.3.1 and 2.3.2. This means that
+compilation have changed after 2.3.1. This means that
you will need to change your application project files. See the
relevant section below for details.
this manifested in unexpected link errors or warnings. This problem
doesn't occur when using project files to build wxWindows.
+ To build Unicode versions of the libraries, add UNICODE=1
+ to the nmake invocation ( default is UNICODE=0 ).
+
Note that the wxWindows core library allows you to have debug
and release libraries available simultaneously, by compiling the
objects in different subdirectories, whereas samples must be
Thanks are due to Keith Garry Boyce (garp@opustel.com), Cygnus
and others for making it all possible.
-Both Cygwin and Mingw32 (the minimal distribution of Cygwin) can be used
-with the same makefiles.
+Both Cygwin and MinGW can be used with the same makefiles.
+
+NOTE: some notes specific to old Cygwin ( < 1.1.x )
+ and MinGW ( < 1.0 ) are at the end of this section
+ ( see OLD VERSIONS )
Here are the steps required:
-- Retrieve and install the latest beta of Cygwin, or Mingw32, as per the
+- Retrieve and install the latest version of Cygwin, or Mingw32, as per the
instructions with either of these packages.
- If using Mingw32, you need some extra files to use the wxWindows
These should be extracted to the Mingw32 directory. If you have
already downloaded rm, cp, mv from elsewhere, you won't need this.
- If using Mingw32 2.95 and below with wxWindows 2.1 or above, you
- must hand-patch with Mingw32-gcc295.patches (located in the
- top-level of the wxWindows 2 installation). Mingw32 2.95.2
- and above contain the fixes already.
-
-- Modify the file wx/src/cygnus.bat (or mingw32.bat or mingegcs.bat)
- to set up appropriate variables, if necessary mounting drives.
- Run it before compiling.
-
-- For Cygwin, make sure there's a \tmp directory on your
- Windows drive or bison will crash (actually you don't need
- bison for ordinary wxWindows compilation: a pre-generated .c file is
- supplied).
-
-- Edit wx/src/makeg95.env and set the MINGW32 variable at the top of
- the file to either 1 (you have Mingw32 or Cygwin 1.x releases) or 0
- (if you have Cygwin betas). If using Mingw32, also set the
- MINGW32VERSION variable appropriately.
-
- Set your WXWIN variable to where wxWindows is installed.
*** IMPORTANT: For Cygwin/Mingw32, use forward slashes in the path, not
backslashes.
- Use the makefile.g95 files for compiling wxWindows and samples,
- e.g.:
+ e.g. to compile a debugging version of wxWindows:
> cd c:\wx\src\msw
> make -f makefile.g95
> cd c:\wx\samples\minimal
> make -f makefile.g95
+ to compile with optimizations:
+ > cd c:\wx\src\msw
+ > make -f makefile.g95 FINAL=1
+ > cd c:\wx\samples\minimal
+ > make -f makefile.g95 FINAL=1
+
+ to compile a DLL:
+ > cd c:\wx\src\msw
+ > make -f makefile.g95 WXMAKINGDLL=1
+ > cd c:\wx\samples\minimal
+ > make -f makefile.g95 WXUSINGDLL=1
+
+ to compile the Unicode version:
+ > cd c:\wx\src\msw
+ > make -f makefile.g95 UNICODE=1
+ > cd c:\wx\samples\minimal
+ > make -f makefile.g95 UNICODE=1
+
+ Options can be combined ( e.g.: UNICODE=1 FINAL=1 )
+
Ignore the warning about the default entry point.
- Use the 'strip' command to reduce executable size.
- With Cygwin, you can invoke gdb --nw myfile.exe to
debug an executable. If there are memory leaks, they will be
- flagged when the program quits.
-
-- If using GnuWin32 b18, you will need to copy windres.exe
- from e.g. the Mingw32 distribution, to a directory in your path.
+ flagged when the program quits. You can use Cygwin gdb
+ to debug MinGW executables.
All targets have 'clean' targets to allow removal of object files
-and other intermediate compiler files.
+and other intermediate compiler files and 'cleanall' targets to
+allow removal of all object files and library files.
Notes:
and similarly for glu[32].def.
+OLD VERSIONS:
+
+- If using Mingw32 2.95 and below with wxWindows 2.1 or above, you
+ must hand-patch with Mingw32-gcc295.patches (located in the
+ top-level of the wxWindows 2 installation). Mingw32 2.95.2
+ and above contain the fixes already.
+
+- Modify the file wx/src/cygnus.bat (or mingw32.bat or mingegcs.bat)
+ to set up appropriate variables, if necessary mounting drives.
+ Run it before compiling.
+
+- For Cygwin, make sure there's a \tmp directory on your
+ Windows drive or bison will crash (actually you don't need
+ bison for ordinary wxWindows compilation: a pre-generated .c file is
+ supplied).
+
+- Edit wx/src/makeg95.env and set the MINGW32 variable at the top of
+ the file to either 1 (you have Mingw32 or Cygwin 1.x releases) or 0
+ (if you have Cygwin betas). If using Mingw32, also set the
+ MINGW32VERSION variable appropriately.
+
+- If using GnuWin32 b18, you will need to copy windres.exe
+ from e.g. the Mingw32 distribution, to a directory in your path.
+
References:
- The Cygwin site is at
- http://sourceware.cygnus.com
+ http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin
- Mingw32 is available at:
ftp://www.mingw.org
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