-wxWindows 2.3 for Motif installation
+wxWindows 2.5 for Motif installation
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IMPORTANT NOTE:
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
+ mailing wx-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 wxWindows you are
using (including the beta) and what compiler on what system. One
- example: wxMotif 2.3.3, gcc 2.95.4, Redhat 6.1
+ example: wxMotif 2.5.1, gcc 2.95.4, Redhat 6.1
First steps
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-- Prerequisites: Motif 1.2 or above, or Lesstif
- (not yet tested). Motif 2.0 and above may also be suitable.
+- Prerequisites: Motif 1.2 or above, or Lesstif. Motif 2.0 and
+ above may also be suitable.
-- Download wxMotif-x.y.z.tgz, where x.y.z is the version number.
+- Download wxX11-x.y.z.tgz, where x.y.z is the version number.
+ (wxMotif is included in the wxX11 distribution).
Download documentation in a preferred format, such as
wxWindows-HTML.zip or wxWindows-PDF.zip.
- You can now use configure to build wxWindows and the samples.
- Using configure is the recommended way to build the library. If it doesn't
+ Using configure is the only 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 wx-dev@lists.wxwindows.org.
them concurrently. 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
+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
+mkdir buildmotif
cd buildmotif
../configure --with-motif
make
cd ..
-md buildgtk
+mkdir buildgtk
cd buildgtk
../configure --with-gtk
make
cd ..
-md buildgtkd
+mkdir buildgtkd
cd buildgtkd
-../configure --with-gtk --enable-debug_flag
+../configure --with-gtk --enable-debug
make
cd ..
http://www.wxwindows.org/
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
+report to one of our mailing lists (see my homepage) INCLUDING A DESCRIPTION OF
YOUR SYSTEM AND YOUR PROBLEM, SUCH AS YOUR VERSION OF MOTIF, WXMOTIF, WHAT
DISTRIBUTION YOU USE AND WHAT ERROR WAS REPORTED. I know this has no effect,
but I tried...
You can get the newest version of the Lesstif from the lesstif homepage at:
- http://www.lesstif.org
+ http://www.lesstif.org/
* Additional libraries
----------------------
wxWindows/Motif 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:
-
- - RedHat 5.1
- - Debian 2.0 and 3.0
- - Stampede
- - DLD 6.0
- - SuSE 6.0
-
+many aspects. As of writing this, virtually all Linux distributions have
+correct glibc 2 support.
+
You can disable thread support by running
./configure --disable-threads
--------------------------
Please send comments and question about the OS/2 installation
-to Andrea Venturoli <a.ventu@flashnet.it> and patches to
+to Stefan Neis <Stefan.Neis@t-online.de> and patches to
the wxWindows mailing list.
-You'll need OS/2 Warp (4.00FP#6), X-Free86/2 (3.3.3 or newer),
-Lesstif (0.89.1 or newer), emx (0.9d fix 1), flex (2.5.4),
-yacc (1.8), unix like shell, e.g. 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).
+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.
-Open an OS/2 prompt and switch to the directory above.
-First set some global environment variables we need:
+You'll need OS/2 Warp (4.51) or eCS(1.0), X-Free86/2 (3.3.6 or newer),
+Lesstif (0.92.7 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).
-SET CXXFLAGS=-Zmtd -D__ST_MT_ERRNO__
-SET CFLAGS=-Zmtd -D__ST_MT_ERRNO__
-SET OSTYPE=OS2X
-SET COMSPEC=sh
+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.
-Notice you can choose whatever you want, if you don't like OS2X.
+Open an OS/2 prompt and switch to the directory above.
+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
-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-motif
-as described above.
+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 that the delivered configure scripts are fully OS/2 aware, so you
+can simply run
+ ash -c "configure --with-motif"
+and make and possibly make install as described above.
To verify Lesstif installation, configure will try to compile a
sample program that requires X headers/libraries to be either
available via C_INCLUDE_PATH and LIBRARY_PATH or you need to
explicitly set CFLAGS prior to running configure.
-If you have pthreads library installed, it will be autodetected
-and the library will be compiled with thread-support.
-
-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 wxMotif on SGI
-------------------------
--disable-threads Compile without thread support. Threads
support is also required for the
- socket code to work.
+ socket code to work.
--disable-shared Do not create shared libraries.
- --disable-optimise Do not optimise the code. Can
+ --enable-monolithic Build wxWindows as single library instead
+ of as several smaller libraries (which is
+ the default since wxWindows 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.
+ 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-dmalloc Use the dmalloc memory debugger.
Read more at www.letters.com/dmalloc/
+ --enable-debug Equivalent to --enable-debug_info plus
+ --enable-debug-flag.
+
--enable-debug_info Add debug info to object files and
executables for use with debuggers
such as gdb (or its many frontends).
--without-libjpeg Disables JPEG image format code.
-{ --without-odbc Disables ODBC code. Not yet. }
+ --without-odbc Disables ODBC code.
+
+ --without-libtiff Disables TIFF image format code.
+
+ --without-expat Disable XML classes based on Expat parser.
- --disable-resources Disables the use of *.wxr type
- resources.
-
--disable-threads Disables threads. Will also
disable sockets.
--disable-clipboard Disables Clipboard.
- --disable-serial Disables object instance serialisation.
-
--disable-streams Disables the wxStream classes.
--disable-file Disables the wxFile class.
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
-----------
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
+Pentium 200 around 40 minutes. During compilation, you may get a few
warning messages depending in your compiler.
If you want to be more selective, you can change into a specific
This is certain to become the standard way unless we decide
to stick to tmake.
+If your application uses only some of wxWindows 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.
+
2) The other way creates a project within the source code
directories of wxWindows. For this endeavour, you'll need
GNU autoconf version 2.14 and add an entry to your Makefile.in
# anyhow
# -- Julian Smart
chmod a+x configure config.sub config.guess
- ./configure --with-shared --with-motif --without-gtk --with-debug_flag --with-debug_info --enable-debug --without-threads --without-sockets --without-odbc
+ ./configure --with-shared --with-motif --with-debug_flag --with-debug_info --enable-debug --without-threads --without-sockets --without-odbc
make
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Other Notes
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-- 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
- script).
+- Using configure will create a release build of the library by
+ default: it's recommended to use --enable-debug configure switch
+ while developing your application. To compile in non-debug mode, use
+ --disable-debug configure switch.
Bug reports
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