-wxWindows 2.3 for GTK installation
+wxWidgets 2.5 for GTK installation
----------------------------------
IMPORTANT NOTE:
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 wxWindows you are
+ 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 2.3.3, gcc 2.95.4, Redhat 6.2
+ 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,
+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 wxWindows - you may also want to create different versions of wxWindows
+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_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.
md buildgtkd
cd buildgtkd
-../configure --with-gtk --enable-debug_flag
+../configure --with-gtk --enable-debug
make
cd ..
they were installed in a non default location.
You get errors from make: please use GNU make instead of the native make
-program. Currently wxWindows can be built only with GNU make, BSD make and
+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).
* General
---------
-The Unix variants of wxWindows use GNU configure. If you have problems with
+The Unix variants of wxWidgets 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
* GUI libraries
---------------
-wxWindows/GTK requires the GTK+ library to be installed on your system. It has
+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).
* Additional libraries
----------------------
-wxWindows/Gtk requires a thread library and X libraries known to work with
+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, 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
------------------------
Please send comments and question about the OS/2 installation
-to Andrea Venturoli <a.ventu@flashnet.it> and patches to
-the wxWindows mailing list.
-
-You'll need OS/2 Warp (4.00FP#6), X-Free86/2 (3.3.3 or newer),
-GTK+ (1.2.5 or newer), emx (0.9d fix 1), flex (2.5.4), yacc (1.8),
-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).
+to Stefan Neis <Stefan.Neis@t-online.de> and patches to
+the wxWidgets mailing list.
-Open an OS/2 prompt and switch to the directory above.
-First set some global environment variables we need:
+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.
-SET CXXFLAGS=-Zmtd -D__ST_MT_ERRNO__
-SET CFLAGS=-Zmtd -D__ST_MT_ERRNO__
-SET OSTYPE=OS2X
-SET COMSPEC=sh
+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).
-Notice you can choose whatever you want, if you don't like OS2X.
+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.
-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-gtk
-as described above.
+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
-If you have pthreads library installed, but have a gtk version
-which does not yet support threading, you need to explicitly
-disable threading by using the option --disable-threads.
+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.
-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.
+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
-----------------------
./configure --help
-It is recommended to build wxWindows in another directory (maybe a
-subdirectory of your wxWindows installation) as this allows you to
+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.
--disable-shared Do not create shared libraries, but
build static libraries instead.
+ --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 gdb (or its many frontends).
--enable-debug_flag Define __DEBUG__ and __WXDEBUG__ when
- compiling. This enable wxWindows' very
+ 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
--with-odbc Enables ODBC code. This is disabled
by default because iODBC is under the
L-GPL license which is less liberal than
- wxWindows license.
+ wxWidgets license.
--without-libpng Disables PNG 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.
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 install
-You can remove any traces of wxWindows by typing
+You can remove any traces of wxWidgets by typing
make uninstall
This is certain to become the standard way unless we decide
to stick to tmake.
+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.
+
2) The other way creates a project within the source code
-directories of wxWindows. For this endeavour, you'll need
+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.
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