+wxWidgets 2.5 for GTK installation
+----------------------------------
- !!! When sending bug reports tell us what version of wxWindows you are
- using (including the beta) and what compiler on what system. One
- example: wxGTK 2.1 beta 6, egcs 1.1.1, Redhat 5.0 !!!
+IMPORTANT NOTE:
-* The most simple case
------------------------
+ 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: wxGTK 2.4.0, gcc 2.95.4, Redhat 6.2
+
+* The simplest case
+-------------------
-If you compile wxWindows 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-gtk
> ldconfig
> exit
-If you want to remove wxWindows on Unix you can do this:
+If you want to remove wxWidgets on Unix you can do this:
> su <type root password>
> make uninstall
> ldconfig
> exit
+* The GTK+ 2 case
+-----------------
+
+wxGTK has support for the new version 2.0.X of GTK+ since version 2.4.0.
+This means that wxGTK apps can now make use Unicode as the underlying encoding
+for all text operations. This is a very fundamental change and will need time
+to stabilize, so be careful. Anyways, after installing a recent version of GTK+
+2.0, do this
+
+> ./configure --with-gtk --enable-gtk2 --enable-unicode
+> make
+> su <type root password>
+> make install
+> ldconfig
+> exit
+
+If you are adventurous, you can install the FcConfig 2.0 package
+and the Pango library from CVS (or a very recent snapshot from
+the upcoming 1.2 series) and set do "export GDK_USE_XFT=1" so
+that the display as well as the printing code will use render
+using the same FreeType code even for Far Eastern encodings.
+
+Expect problems.
+
* The expert case
-----------------
-If you want to do some more serious cross-platform programming with wxWindows,
-such as for GTK and Motif, you can now build two complete libraries and use
-them concurretly. For this end, you have to create a directory for each build
-of wxWindows - you may also want to create different versions of wxWindows
-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 versions (one GTK, one Motif and a debug version of the GTK
+If you want to do some more serious cross-platform programming with wxWidgets,
+such as for GTK and Motif, you can now build two complete libraries and use
+them concurrently. For this end, you have to create a directory for each build
+of wxWidgets - you may also want to create different versions of wxWidgets
+and test them concurrently. Most typically, this would be a version configured
+with --enable-debug 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 versions (one GTK, one Motif and a debug version of the GTK
source) you'd do this:
md buildmotif
md buildgtkd
cd buildgtkd
-../configure --with-gtk --enable-debug_flag
+../configure --with-gtk --enable-debug
make
cd ..
-* The most simple errors
-------------------------
-
-configure reports, that you don't have GTK 1.X 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
-doesn't pass this test as all this test does is compile and link a GTK program.
-
-You get errors during compilation: The reason is that you probably have a broken
-compiler, which includes almost everything that is called gcc. If you use gcc 2.8
-you have to disable optimsation as the compiler will give up with an internal
-compiler error.
-
-If there is just any way for you to use egcs, use egcs. We cannot fix gcc.
-
-You get immediate segfault when starting any sample or application: This is either
-due to having compiled the library with different flags or options than your program -
-typically you might have the __WXDEBUG__ option set for the library but not for your
-program - or due to using a broken compiler (and its optimisation) such as GCC 2.8.
-
-* The most simple program
--------------------------
+* The simplest errors
+---------------------
+
+For any configure errors: please look at config.log file which was generated
+during configure run, it usually contains some useful information.
+
+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). Or maybe you installed it in non default
+location and configure can't find it there, so please check that your PATH
+variable includes the path to the correct gtk-config. Also check that your
+LD_LIBRARY_PATH or equivalent variable contains the path to GTK+ libraries if
+they were installed in a non default location.
+
+You get errors from make: please use GNU make instead of the native make
+program. Currently wxWidgets can be built only with GNU make, BSD make and
+Solaris make. Other versions might work or not (any which don't have VPATH
+support definitely won't).
+
+You get errors during compilation: The reason is that you probably have a
+broken compiler. GCC 2.8 and earlier versions and egcs are likely to cause
+problems due to incomplete support for C++ and optimisation bugs. Best to use
+GCC 2.95 or later.
+
+You get immediate segfault when starting any sample or application: This is
+either due to having compiled the library with different flags or options than
+your program - typically you might have the __WXDEBUG__ option set for the
+library but not for your program - or due to using a compiler with optimisation
+bugs.
+
+Linker complains about missing PROIO_yy_flex_alloc and similar symbols: you
+probably have an old version of flex, 2.5.4 is recommended.
+
+* The simplest program
+----------------------
-Now create your super-application myfoo.app and compile anywhere with
+Now create your super-application myfoo.cpp and compile anywhere with
-g++ myfoo.cpp `wx-config --libs --cflags` -o myfoo
+g++ myfoo.cpp `wx-config --libs --cxxflags` -o myfoo
* General
------------------------
+---------
+
+The Unix variants of wxWidgets use GNU configure. If you have problems with
+your make use GNU make instead.
-The Unix variants of wxWindows use GNU configure. If you have problems with your
-make use GNU make instead.
+If you have general problems with installation, read my homepage at
-If you have general problems with installation, read my homepage at
+ http://wesley.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~wxxt/
- http://wesley.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~wxxt
-
-for newest information. If you still don't have any success, please send a bug
-report to one of our mailing lists (see my homepage) INCLUDING A DESCRIPTION OF
-YOUR SYSTEM AND YOUR PROBLEM, SUCH AS YOUR VERSION OF GTK, WXGTK, WHAT DISTRIBUTION
-YOU USE AND WHAT ERROR WAS REPORTED. I know this has no effect, but I tried...
+for newest information. If you still don't have any success, please send a bug
+report to one of our mailing lists (see my homepage) INCLUDING A DESCRIPTION OF
+YOUR SYSTEM AND YOUR PROBLEM, SUCH AS YOUR VERSION OF GTK, WXGTK, WHAT
+DISTRIBUTION YOU USE AND WHAT ERROR WAS REPORTED. I know this has no effect,
+but I tried...
* GUI libraries
------------------------
+---------------
-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, albeit without Drag'n'Drop. wxWindows does work with the 1.1.X
-versions of the GTK+ library.
+wxWidgets/GTK requires the GTK+ library to be installed on your system. It has
+to be a stable version, preferably version 1.2.10 (at least 1.2.3 is required,
+1.2.7 is strongly recommended).
You can get the newest version of the GTK+ from the GTK homepage at:
http://www.gtk.org
-
-We also mirror GTK+ 1.0.6 at my ftp site. You'll find information about downloading
+
+We also mirror GTK+ at my ftp site. You'll find information about downloading
at my homepage.
-
+
* Additional libraries
------------------------
+----------------------
-wxWindows/Gtk requires a thread library and X libraries known to work with threads.
-This is the case on all commercial Unix-Variants and all Linux-Versions that are
-based on glibc 2 except RedHat 5.0 which is broken in many aspects. As of writing
-this, these Linux distributions have correct glibc 2 support:
+wxWidgets/Gtk requires a thread library and X libraries known to work with
+threads. This is the case on all commercial Unix-Variants and all
+Linux-Versions that are based on glibc 2 except RedHat 5.0 which is broken in
+many aspects. As of writing this, virtually all Linux distributions have
+correct glibc 2 support.
- - RedHat 5.1
- - Debian 2.0
- - Stampede
- - DLD 6.0
- - SuSE 6.0
-
-You can disable thread support by running
+You can disable thread support by running
-./configure "--disable-threads"
+./configure --disable-threads
make
su <type root password>
make install
ldconfig
exit
-
-NB: DO NOT COMPILE WXGTK WITH GCC 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).
+to Stefan Neis <Stefan.Neis@t-online.de> and patches to
+the wxWidgets mailing list.
+
+In the following list, the version numbers indicate the configuration that
+was actually used by myself, newer version should cause no problems and
+even older ones are expected to work most of the time.
-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),
-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).
+You'll need OS/2 Warp (4.51) or eCS(1.0), X-Free86/2 (3.3.6 or newer),
+GTK+ (1.2.5 or newer), emx (0.9d fix 4), flex (2.5.4), yacc (1.8) or
+bison (1.25), a Unix like shell (pdksh-5.2.14 or ash), Autoconf (2.57),
+GNU file utilities (3.13), GNU text utilities (1.19),
+GNU shell utilites (1.12), m4 (1.4), sed (2.05), grep (2.0), Awk (3.0.3),
+GNU Make (3.75).
+
+Preferably, you should have Posix/2 installed and C(PLUS)_INCLUDE_PATH and
+LIBRARY_PATH set up accordingly, however, wxGTK will even work without it.
+Presence of Posix/2 will be auto-detected.
Open an OS/2 prompt and switch to the directory above.
-First set some global environment variables we need:
+Set MAKESHELL (and depending on your installation also INSTALL, for me
+it tends to try to use the system's tcpip\pcomos\install.exe which causes
+problems...) to a Unix like shell, e.g.
+SET MAKESHELL=ash
-SET CXXFLAGS=-Zmtd -D__ST_MT_ERRNO__
-SET OSTYPE=OS2X
-SET COMSPEC=sh
+Be warned that depending on the precise version of your make, the
+variable that needs to be set might be MAKE_SHELL instead of MAKESHELL.
+If you have a really deficient version of GNU make, it might even be
+necessary to set SHELL or even COMSPEC to a unix like shell as well.
-Notice you can choose whatever you want, if you don't like OS2X.
+Notice that the delivered configure scripts are fully OS/2 aware, so you
+can simply run
+ ash -c "configure --with-gtk"
+and make and possibly make install as described above.
* Building wxGTK on SGI
---------------------------
+-----------------------
Using the SGI native compilers, it is recommended that you
-also set CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS before running configure. These
+also set CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS before running configure. These
should be set to :
-CFLAGS="-mips3 -n32"
+CFLAGS="-mips3 -n32"
CXXFLAGS="-mips3 -n32"
-This is essential if you want to use the resultant binaries
-on any other machine than the one it was compiled on. If you
-have a 64bit machine (Octane) you should also do this to ensure
-you don't accidently build the libraries as 64bit (which is
+This is essential if you want to use the resultant binaries
+on any other machine than the one it was compiled on. If you
+have a 64bit machine (Octane) you should also do this to ensure
+you don't accidently build the libraries as 64bit (which is
untested).
The SGI native compiler support has only been tested on Irix 6.5.
* Create your configuration
------------------------------
+---------------------------
Usage:
- ./configure options
+ ./configure options
If you want to use system's C and C++ compiler,
set environment variables CC and CCC as
- % setenv CC cc
- % setenv CCC CC
- % ./configure options
+ % setenv CC cc
+ % setenv CXX CC
+ % ./configure [options]
to see all the options please use:
- ./configure --help
+ ./configure --help
-The basic philosophy is that if you want to use different
-configurations, like a debug and a release version,
-or use the same source tree on different systems,
-you have only to change the environment variable OSTYPE.
-(Sadly this variable is not set by default on some systems
-in some shells - on SGI's for example). So you will have to
-set it there. This variable HAS to be set before starting
-configure, so that it knows which system it tries to
-configure for.
-
-Configure will complain if the system variable OSTYPE has
-not been defined. And Make in some circumstances as well...
+It is recommended to build wxWidgets in another directory (maybe a
+subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation) as this allows you to
+have multiple configurations (for example, debug and release or GTK
+and Motif) simultaneously.
* General options
--------------------
+-----------------
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.
-Many of the confiugre options have been thoroughly tested
-in wxWindows snapshot 6, but not yet all (ODBC not).
-
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
+if you use all of our CVS repository you have to choose a
toolkit. You must do this by running configure with either of:
- --without-gtk Don't use the GIMP ToolKit (GTK)
-
- --with-motif Use either Motif or Lesstif
- Configure will look for both.
+ --with-gtk Use the GIMP ToolKit (GTK). Default.
+
+ --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-shared Do not create shared 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.
-
- --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-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
- executables for use with debuggers
- such as gdb (or its many frontends).
-
- --enable-debug_flag Define __DEBUG__ and __WXDEBUG__ when
- compiling. This enable wxWindows' very
- useful internal debugging tricks (such
- as automatically reporting illegal calls)
- to work. Note that program and library
- must be compiled with the same debug
- options.
+ --disable-threads Compile without thread support.
-* Feature Options
--------------------
+ --disable-shared Do not create shared libraries, but
+ build static libraries instead.
-Many of the confiugre options have been thoroughly tested
-in wxWindows snapshot 6, but not yet all (ODBC not).
+ --enable-monolithic Build wxWidgets as single library instead
+ of as several smaller libraries (which is
+ the default since wxWidgets 2.5.0).
+
+ --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.
+
+ --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-permissive Enable compilation without checking for strict
+ ANSI conformance. Useful to prevent the build
+ dying with errors 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
+ executables for use with debuggers
+ such as gdb (or its many frontends).
+
+ --enable-debug_flag Define __DEBUG__ and __WXDEBUG__ when
+ compiling. This enable wxWidgets' very
+ useful internal debugging tricks (such
+ as automatically reporting illegal calls)
+ to work. Note that program and library
+ must be compiled with the same debug
+ options.
+
+ --enable-debug Same as --enable-debug_info and
+ --enable-debug_flag together. Unless you have
+ some very specific needs, you should use this
+ option instead of --enable-debug_info/flag ones
+ separately.
+
+* Feature Options
+-----------------
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
+drastically reduced by removing features from wxWidgets that
are not used in your program. The most relevant such features
are
- --without-libpng Disables PNG image format code.
-
- --without-libjpeg Disables JPEG image format code.
-
-{ --without-odbc Disables ODBC code. Not yet. }
-
- --disable-resources Disables the use of *.wxr type
- resources.
-
- --disable-threads Disables threads. Will also
- disable sockets.
-
- --disable-sockets Disables sockets.
-
- --disable-dnd Disables Drag'n'Drop.
-
- --disable-clipboard Disables Clipboard.
-
- --disable-serial Disables object instance serialiasation.
-
- --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.
-
+ --with-odbc Enables ODBC code. This is disabled
+ by default because iODBC is under the
+ L-GPL license which is less liberal than
+ wxWidgets license.
+
+ --without-libpng Disables PNG image format code.
+
+ --without-libjpeg Disables JPEG image format code.
+
+ --without-libtiff Disables TIFF image format code.
+
+ --without-expat Disable XML classes based on Expat parser.
+
+ --disable-pnm Disables PNM image format code.
+
+ --disable-gif Disables GIF image format code.
+
+ --disable-pcx Disables PCX image format code.
+
+ --disable-iff Disables IFF image format code.
+
+ --disable-resources Disables the use of *.wxr type resources.
+
+ --disable-threads Disables threads. Will also disable sockets.
+
+ --disable-sockets Disables sockets.
+
+ --disable-dnd Disables Drag'n'Drop.
+
+ --disable-clipboard Disables Clipboard.
+
+ --disable-serial Disables object instance serialisation.
+
+ --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 accelerators support.
+
Apart from disabling certain features you can very often "strip"
the program of its debugging information resulting in a significant
reduction in size.
+Please see the output of "./configure --help" for comprehensive list
+of all configurable options.
+
+
* Compiling
--------------
+-----------
The following must be done in the base directory (e.g. ~/wxGTK
or ~/wxWin or whatever)
-Now the makefiles are created (by configure) and you can compile
+Now the makefiles are created (by configure) and you can compile
the library by typing:
- make
+ make
make yourself some coffee, as it will take some time. On an old
-386SX possibly two weeks. During compilation, you'll get a few
+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
-directiry and type "make" there.
+directory and type "make" there.
-Then you may install the library and it's header files under
+Then you may install the library and its header files under
/usr/local/include/wx and /usr/local/lib respectively. You
have to log in as root (i.e. run "su" and enter the root
password) and type
- make install
+ make install
-You can remove any traces of wxWindows by typing
+You can remove any traces of wxWidgets by typing
make uninstall
-
+
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
+g++ myfoo.cpp `wx-config --cxxflags --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`
+ $(CC) -o minimal minimal.o `wx-config --libs`
minimal.o: minimal.cpp mondrian.xpm
- $(CC) `wx-config --cflags` -c minimal.cpp -o minimal.o
+ $(CC) `wx-config --cxxflags` -c minimal.cpp -o minimal.o
-clean:
+clean:
rm -f *.o minimal
This is certain to become the standard way unless we decide
-to sitch to tmake.
-
-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
-GNU libtool version 1.3
+to stick to tmake.
-and quite possibly
+If your application uses only some of wxWidgets libraries, you can
+specify required libraries when running wx-config. For example,
+`wx-config --libs=html,core` will only output link command to link
+with libraries required by core GUI classes and wxHTML classes. See
+the manual for more information on the libraries.
-GNU make
-GNU C++
-
-and if you have all this then you probably know enough to
-go ahead yourself :-)
+2) The other way creates a project within the source code
+directories of wxWidgets. For this endeavour, you'll need
+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
+
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