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[wxWidgets.git] / docs / msw / install.txt

diff --git a/docs/msw/install.txt b/docs/msw/install.txt
index 051643dd94462c31de3558c60aa85278ad4c45ac..ebfd849c7c8916898c996e4fdd4146237bac1879 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/msw/install.txt
+++ b/docs/msw/install.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,30 @@
 
+Installing wxWindows 2.1
+------------------------
+
+[Notes from Robert Roebling for snapshot 8]
+
+This is a not-so-well tested snapshot release of wxWindows 2.1 for
+Microsoft Windows 95, 98 and NT. This is not a production release,
+although a huge number of bugs found in wxWindows 2.0 have been
+fixed.
+
+There have not been major changes in the way to build the library, 
+although the creation of the various makefiles has been automatized. 
+I myself use the GNU MingGW32 compiler from 
+
+  http://www.cygnus.com 
+  
+using the GNU make program from 
+
+  http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~janjaap/mingw32
+  
+and I have not tested any other compiler, but other developers use
+the makefiles for Borland C++, MS-Visual C++ 5.0 and 6.0 and probably
+Metrowerks C++.
+
+Expect problems.
+
 Installing wxWindows 2.0
 ------------------------
 
@@ -26,6 +52,7 @@ wx200pdf.zip            Acrobat PDF documentation
 wx200htm.zip            HTML documentation
 wx200vc.zip             MS VC++ 5.0 project files
 wx200cw.zip             Metrowerks CodeWarrior project files
+wx200bc.zip             BC++ 5 project files
 
 Unarchive the required files plus any optional documentation
 files into a suitable directory such as c:\wx.
@@ -45,7 +72,8 @@ For Cygwin or Mingw32 compilation, make sure WXWIN contains only
 forward slashes.
 
 If installing from the CVS server, copy include/wx/msw/setup0.h to
-include/wx/msw/setup.h.
+include/wx/msw/setup.h and edit the resulting file to choose the featrues you
+would like to compile wxWindows with[out].
 
 Compilation
 -----------
@@ -136,6 +164,13 @@ optimized. For example, in wxWindows project, set to 'Minimum
 Size'. In Dialog Editor project, set to 'Customize: Favor Small
 Code' (and no others). This will then work.
 
+Note (4): some crash problems can be due to inconsistent compiler
+options. If strange/weird/impossible things start to happen please
+check (dumping IDE project file as makefile and doing text comparison
+if necessary) that the project settings, especially the list of defined
+symbols, struct packing, etc. are exactly the same for all items in
+the project. After this, delete everything (including PCH) and recompile.
+
 Visual C++ 1.5 compilation
 --------------------------
 
@@ -175,15 +210,22 @@ off in this mode. See issues.txt for details.
 
 Compiling using the IDE files:
 
-1. Load src\wxwin32_lib.ide.
+1. Load src\bc32.ide (or src\bc32d.ide for a debugging version).
 2. Go to Options|Project... and specify the correct BC++ include and lib path for
    your file structure.
 3. Press F9 to compile the wxWindows library.
-4. Load samples\samples.ide.
+4. Load samples\bc32.ide.
 5. Go to Options|Project... and specify the correct BC++ include and lib path for
    your file structure.
 6. Press F9 to compile the samples.
 
+Note that to make the png, xpm and zlib libraries (needed for
+some samples) you need to compile with bc32.ide. bc32d.ide only
+makes the wxWindows library (lib\wx32d.lib).
+
+The debug version of the wxWindows library is about 37 MB, and the
+release version is around 3 MB.
+
 See also the file bc_ide.txt for further instructions and details
 of how to create your own project files.
 
@@ -216,10 +258,8 @@ Metrowerks CodeWarrior compilation
 
 NOTES:
 
-(a) Unfortunately CodeWarrior support is broken in this
-    release. Stefan Csomor (csomor@advancedconcepts.ch) will rectify this shortly.
-(b) You need CodeWarrior Pro 4 plus the patches to 4.1 from the
-    Metrowerks Web site.
+You need CodeWarrior Pro 4 plus the patches to 4.1 from the
+Metrowerks Web site.
 
 Symantec C++ compilation
 ------------------------
@@ -303,7 +343,8 @@ Here are the steps required:
   socket-related files in src/msw/makefile.g95.
 
 - Set your WXWIN variable to where wxWindows is installed.
-  For Cygwin/Mingw32, use forward slashes in the path, not backslashes.
+  *** IMPORTANT: For Cygwin/Mingw32, use forward slashes in the path, not
+  backslashes.
 
 - Use the makefile.g95 files for compiling wxWindows and samples,
   e.g.:
@@ -326,15 +367,29 @@ Here are the steps required:
 All targets have 'clean' targets to allow removal of object files
 and other intermediate compiler files.
 
-Gotchas:
+Notes:
 
 - libwx.a is 48 MB or more - but much less if compiled with no
   debug info (-g0) and level 4 optimization (-O4).
+
 - install.exe doesn't have built-in decompression because lzexpand.lib
   isn't available with Cygwin. However, you can use it with external
   decompression utilities.
+
 - Doesn't compile src/msw/ole files, so no drag and drop.
 
+- There's a bug in the Mingw32 headers for some distributions.
+
+  in include/windows32/defines.h, where it says:
+
+  #define LPSTR_TEXTCALLBACKA (LPSTR)-1L)
+
+  it should say:
+
+  #define LPSTR_TEXTCALLBACKA ((LPSTR)-1L)
+
+  (a missing bracket).
+
 References:
 
  - The GNU-WIN32 site is at