- wxBase README
- =============
+ wxBase README
+ =============
NB: this file applies to wxBase library only. If you are using a GUI version
- of wxWindows, please refer to the documentation in the appropriate
+ of wxWidgets, please refer to the documentation in the appropriate
subdirectory (msw, gtk, motif &c).
0. Introduction
---------------
- wxBase is the library providing most of the non-GUI classes of the wxWindows
+ wxBase is the library providing most of the non-GUI classes of the wxWidgets
cross-platform C++ framework. wxBase has some generic classes such as yet
another C++ string class, typesafe dynamic arrays, hashes and lists and, more
-excitingly, wxDateTime - a very flexible and powerful class for manipulating
+excitingly, wxDateTime -- a very flexible and powerful class for manipulating
the dates in the range of 580 million years with up to millisecond precision.
Another useful class not present in the standard C++ library is wxRegEx which
allows you to use regular expressions for string matching and replacing.
parse the command line, limit the number of instances of your program
executing simultaneously (portably!) and so on.
+
1. Requirements and supported platforms
--------------------------------------
wxBase can be compiled and used under Win32, mostly any modern Unix system
-(probably including Mac OS X but it wasn't tested there), VMS and BeOS (this
-release couldn't be tested under these platforms neither so you might
-encounter some problems but they should be easy to solve - please contact us
-in this case!)
+(including Mac OS X), VMS and BeOS (this release couldn't be tested under
+these platforms so you might encounter some problems but they should be easy
+to solve -- please contact us in this case!)
It is written without using any modern C++ features (such as templates,
exceptions, namespaces) for maximal portability and so you shouldn't have
problems compiling it with any C++ compiler at all. However, we only provide
-the project files for Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 for Win32 (any contributions
-are welcome!) - but our Unix makefiles will work with any compiler.
+the project files for Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 and make files for Borland C++
+for Win32 (any contributions are welcome!) -- but our Unix makefiles should
+work with any compiler.
+
2. Installing under Win32
-------------------------
a) Using Visual C++ 6.0
- Simply open the src/wxBase.dsw file in MSDEV and build it. When it is
+ Simply open the build/msw/wx_base.dsp file in MSDEV and build it. When it is
done you can also open samples/console/console.dsp project and build it as
well.
b) Cygwin
- Please refer to the Unix section below
+ Please refer to the Unix section below.
+
+ Note that gcc's precompiled headers do not work on current versions of
+ Cygwin. If your version of Cygwin is affected you will need to use the
+ --disable-precomp-headers configure option.
c) Borland
- Please refer to the docs/msw/install.txt. The console sample compiles and runs
- but does not pass all tests (04 sept 02)
-d) Other compilers
+ Please refer to the docs/msw/install.txt. The console sample compiles and
+ runs but does not pass all tests.
+
+d) Watcom
+
+ The compilation has been tested only with OpenWatcom but should also work
+ with Watcom 11.0 but probably not the earlier versions.
+
+ To build wxBase itself (only static library build is supported), enter the
+ directory src\msw and type "wmake -f makebase.wat". See also Watcom notes in
+ docs/msw/install.txt.
+
+ There is makefile.wat in samples\console which can be used to build the
+ console sample with Watcom and also shows how can you write your own
+ makefiles for wxBase and Watcom compiler.
+
+e) Other compilers
Unfortunately we don't have the makefiles for any other compilers yet.
Please contact us if you would like to help us with creating one for the
compiler you use.
+
3. Installing under Unix/BeOS
-----------------------------
-NB: If you're building wxBase from the wxWindows distribution and not from a
- separate wxBase one you will need to add "--disable-gui" to configure
- arguments below!
-
-Please note that GNU make is required to build wxBase!
+Please note that GNU make may be required to build wxBase, please use it if
+you get any errors from the native Unix make.
The recommended way to build wxBase is:
- % cd ..../wxWindows
- % mkdir base-release
- % cd base-release
- % ../configure
- # ignore the error messages about missing samples
- % make
- % make install
+ % cd ..../wxWidgets
+ % mkdir base-release # or any other directory of your liking
+ % cd base-release
+ % ../configure --disable-gui
+ # ignore the error messages about missing samples
+ % make
+ % make install
You can also do:
- % mkdir base-debug
- % cd base-debug
- % ../configure --enable-debug
- % make
+ % mkdir base-debug
+ % cd base-debug
+ % ../configure --disable-gui --enable-debug
+ % make
To build the sample then cd to samples/console and make there.
+
4. Documentation and support
----------------------------
wxBase classes. It doesn't do anything useful per itself but you may want to
look at its code to see examples of usage of the class you are interested in.
- There is no separate documentation for wxBase, please refer to wxWindows
+ There is no separate documentation for wxBase, please refer to wxWidgets
documentation instead.
- Support for wxBase is available from the same places as for wxWindows itself,
+ Support for wxBase is available from the same places as for wxWidgets itself,
namely:
* Usenet newsgroup comp.soft-sys.wxwindows
-* Mailing lists: see http://lists.wxwindows.org/ for more information
+* Mailing lists: see http://lists.wxwidgets.org/ for more information
-* WWW page: http://www.wxwindows.org/
+* WWW page: http://www.wxwidgets.org/
Hope you will find wxBase useful!
- Vadim Zeitlin
-
-
-This file is accurate for the version 2.3.2 of wxBase. It was last modified on
-Dec 11, 2001.
-
+ Vadim Zeitlin
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