-wxWindows 2.3 for X11 installation
-----------------------------------
+wxWidgets for X11 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: wxX11 2.3.3, gcc 2.95.4, Redhat 6.2
+ example: wxX11 2.8.0, gcc 2.95.4, Redhat 6.2
First steps
-----------
-- Download wxWindows-X-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.
Download documentation in a preferred format, such as
- wxWindows-HTML.zip or wxWindows-PDF.zip.
+ wxWidgets-HTML.zip or wxWidgets-PDF.zip.
- Make a directory such as ~/wx and unarchive the files into this
directory.
- It is recommended that you install bison and flex; using yacc
and lex may require tweaking of the makefiles. You also need
- libXpm if you want to have XPM support in wxWindows (recommended).
+ libXpm if you want to have XPM support in wxWidgets (recommended).
-- You can now use configure to build wxWindows and the samples.
+- You can now use configure to build wxWidgets and the samples.
Using configure is the recommended 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.
+ config.log file) to wx-dev@lists.wxwidgets.org.
COMPILING USING CONFIGURE
=========================
* 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-x11
> 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
* 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 X11, 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
currently be installed, so you'd have to use local version of the library for
* 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, see the wxWindows website at
+If you have general problems with installation, see the wxWidgets website at
- http://www.wxwindows.org/
+ http://www.wxwidgets.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
* GUI libraries
---------------
-wxWindows/X11 requires the X11 library to be installed on your system.
+wxWidgets/X11 requires the X11 library to be installed on your system.
* Additional libraries
----------------------
-wxWindows/X11 requires a thread library and X libraries known to work with
+wxWidgets/X11 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
-the wxWindows mailing list.
+to Stefan Neis <Stefan.Neis@t-online.de> and patches to
+the wxWidgets mailing list.
-You'll need OS/2 Warp (4.00FP#6), X-Free86/2 (3.3.3 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),
+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.
+
+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
-Notice you can choose whatever you want, if you don't like OS2X.
+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.
-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-x11
-as described above.
+Notice that the delivered configure scripts are fully OS/2 aware, so you
+can simply run
+ ash -c "configure --with-x11"
+and make and possibly make install as described above.
To verify X11 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 wxX11 on SGI
-----------------------
The SGI native compiler support has only been tested on Irix 6.5.
+* Building wxX11 on Cygwin
+--------------------------
+
+The normal build instructions should work fine on Cygwin. The one difference
+with Cygwin is that when using the "--enable-shared" configure option (which
+is the default) the API is exported explicitly using __declspec(dllexport)
+rather than all global symbols being available.
+
+This shouldn't make a difference using the library and should be a little
+more efficient. However if an export attribute has been missed somewhere you
+will see linking errors. If this happens then you can work around the
+problem by setting LDFLAGS=-Wl,--export-all-symbols. Please also let us know
+about it on the wx-dev mailing list.
+
* Create your configuration
---------------------------
--disable-shared Do not create shared libraries.
+ --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
-----------------
Many of the configure options have been thoroughly tested
-in wxWindows snapshot 6, but not yet all (ODBC not).
+in wxWidgets snapshot 6, but not yet all (ODBC not).
When producing an executable that is linked statically with wxX11
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-libjpeg Disables JPEG image format code.
{ --without-odbc Disables ODBC code. Not yet. }
+
+ --without-expat Disable XML classes based on Expat parser.
--disable-resources Disables the use of *.wxr type
resources.
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
minimal: minimal.o
$(CXX) -o minimal minimal.o `wx-config --libs`
-minimal.o: minimal.cpp mondrian.xpm
+minimal.o: minimal.cpp
$(CXX) `wx-config --cxxflags` -c minimal.cpp -o minimal.o
clean:
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.
# makewxx11
# Sets permissions (in case we extracted wxX11 from zip files)
# and makes wxX11.
- # Call from top-level wxWindows directory.
+ # Call from top-level wxWidgets directory.
# Note that this uses standard (but commonly-used) configure options;
# if you're feeling brave, you may wish to compile with threads:
# if they're not supported by the target platform, they will be disabled
-------:x-----Cut here-----:x-----
This script will build wxX11 using shared libraries. If you want to build
- a static wxWindows library, use --disable-shared.
+ a static wxWidgets library, use --disable-shared.
Troubleshooting
---------------
Please send bug reports with a description of your environment,
compiler and the error message(s) to the wxwin-developers mailing list at:
- wx-dev@lists.wxwindows.org
+ wx-dev@lists.wxwidgets.org
-Julian Smart, Robert Roebling and Vadim Zeitlin, February 2002.
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