-wxWindows 2.5 for Motif installation
+wxWidgets 2.5 for Motif installation
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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 2.5.4, gcc 2.95.4, Redhat 6.1
First steps
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- 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
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-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
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-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
* General
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-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
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-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
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-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
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-shared Do not create shared libraries.
- --enable-monolithic Build wxWindows as single library instead
+ --enable-monolithic Build wxWidgets as single library instead
of as several smaller libraries (which is
- the default since wxWindows 2.5.0).
+ the default since wxWidgets 2.5.0).
--disable-optimise Do not optimise the code. Can
sometimes be useful for debugging
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
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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
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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