-wxWindows 2.5 for Motif installation
-------------------------------------
+wxWidgets for Motif installation
+--------------------------------
IMPORTANT NOTE:
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
+ When sending bug reports tell us what version of wxWidgets you are
using (including the beta) and what compiler on what system. One
- example: wxMotif 2.5.1, gcc 2.95.4, Redhat 6.1
+ example: wxMotif 2.8.1, gcc 2.95.4, Redhat 6.1
First steps
-----------
- 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.
+ 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 (see comments in the Notes section below) if you want to have
- XPM support in wxWindows (recommended).
+ 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 only way to build the library. If it doesn't
work for you for whatever reason, please report it (together with detailed
* 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-motif
> 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 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 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:
+with --enable-debug and one without.
+
+For building three versions (one GTK, one Motif and a debug version of the GTK
+source) you'd do this:
mkdir buildmotif
cd buildmotif
make
cd ..
+Note that since wxWidgets-2.6.0 you can install all those libraries
+concurrently, you just need to pass the appropriate flags when using them.
+
* The simplest errors
---------------------
* 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/Motif requires the Motif library to be installed on your system. As
+wxWidgets/Motif requires the Motif library to be installed on your system. As
an alternative, you may also use the free library "lesstif" which implements
most of the Motif API without the licence restrictions of Motif.
* Additional libraries
----------------------
-wxWindows/Motif requires a thread library and X libraries known to work with
+wxWidgets/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, virtually all Linux distributions have
Please send comments and question about the OS/2 installation
to Stefan Neis <Stefan.Neis@t-online.de> and patches to
-the wxWindows mailing list.
+the wxWidgets mailing list.
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.
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),
+Lesstif (0.92.7 or newer), emx (0.9d fix 4), 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).
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 or MAKE_SHELL (which one is needed depends on the version of
+make) to a Unix like shell, e.g.
SET MAKESHELL=ash
-
-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.
+Depending on your installation you might want to also set INSTALL, for me
+it tends to try to use the system's tcpip\pcomos\install.exe which causes
+problems, e.g.
+SET INSTALL=<path_to_src_directory>/install-sh -c
Notice that the delivered configure scripts are fully OS/2 aware, so you
can simply run
The SGI native compiler support has only been tested on Irix 6.5.
+* Building wxMotif 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
---------------------------
are enabled by default.
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).
You have to add --with-motif on platforms, where Motif is
not the default (on Linux, configure will default to GTK).
--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.
- --enable-monolithic Build wxWindows as single library instead
- of as several smaller libraries (which is
- the default since wxWindows 2.5.0).
+ --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 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-no_deps Enable compilation without creation of
dependency information.
- --enable-permissive Enable compilation without checking for strict
- ANSI conformance. Useful to prevent the build
- dying with errors as soon as you compile with
- Solaris' ANSI-defying headers.
-
+ --enable-permissive Enable compilation without checking for strict
+ ANSI conformance. Useful to prevent the build
+ dying with errors as soon as you compile with
+ Solaris' ANSI-defying headers.
+
--enable-mem_tracing Add built-in memory tracing.
-
+
--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.
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 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
--without-libpng Disables PNG image format code.
-
+
--without-libjpeg Disables JPEG image format code.
-
+
--without-odbc Disables ODBC code.
-
- --without-libtiff Disables TIFF image format code.
-
- --without-expat Disable XML classes based on Expat parser.
-
+
+ --without-libtiff Disables TIFF image format code.
+
+ --without-expat Disable XML classes based on Expat parser.
+
--disable-threads Disables threads. Will also
disable sockets.
--disable-sockets Disables sockets.
--disable-dnd Disables Drag'n'Drop.
-
+
--disable-clipboard Disables Clipboard.
-
+
--disable-streams Disables the wxStream classes.
-
+
--disable-file Disables the wxFile class.
-
+
--disable-textfile Disables the wxTextFile class.
-
+
--disable-intl Disables the internationalisation.
-
+
--disable-validators Disables validators.
-
+
--disable-accel Disables accel.
Apart from disabling certain features you can very often "strip"
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 wxWindows libraries, you can
+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.
# makewxmotif
# Sets permissions (in case we extracted wxMotif from zip files)
# and makes wxMotif.
- # 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 wxMotif using shared libraries. If you want to build
- a static wxWindows library, use --disable-shared.
+ a static wxWidgets library, use --disable-shared.
Troubleshooting
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