-wxWindows 2.5 for GTK installation
-----------------------------------
+wxWidgets 2.5 for GTK+ 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: wxGTK 2.4.0, gcc 2.95.4, Redhat 6.2
+ example: wxGTK 2.6.0, gcc 2.95.4, Redhat 6.2
* 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-gtk
+> mkdir buildgtk
+> cd buildgtk
+> ../configure --with-gtk
> make
> su <type root password>
> make install
> ldconfig
> exit
-Afterwards you can continue with
+Afterwards you can continue with:
> make
> su <type root password>
> ldconfig
> exit
-If you want to remove wxWindows on Unix you can do this:
+(If you don't do the 'make install' part, you can still
+use the libraries from the buildgtk directory, but they
+will not be available to other users.)
+
+If you want to remove wxWidgets on Unix you can do this:
> su <type root password>
> make uninstall
> ldconfig
> exit
-* The GTK+ 2 case
------------------
+Note that by default, GTK+ 2 is used. GTK+ 1 can be specified
+with --disable-gtk2.
+
+* The Unicode case
+------------------
wxGTK has support for the new version 2.0.X of GTK+ since version 2.4.0.
This means that wxGTK apps can now make use Unicode as the underlying encoding
for all text operations. This is a very fundamental change and will need time
-to stabilize, so be careful. Anyways, after installing a recent version of GTK+
+to stabilize, so be careful. After installing a recent version of GTK+
2.0, do this
-> ./configure --with-gtk --enable-gtk2 --enable-unicode
+> mkdir buildgtk
+> cd buildgtk
+> ../configure --with-gtk --enable-gtk2 --enable-unicode
> make
> su <type root password>
> make install
* The expert case
-----------------
-If you want to do some more serious cross-platform programming with wxWindows,
-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
+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. To do this, create a separate directory for each build
+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.
+currently be installed with 'make install', 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
+For building three versions (one GTK+, one Motif and a debug version of the GTK
source) you'd do this:
md buildmotif
For any configure errors: please look at config.log file which was generated
during configure run, it usually contains some useful information.
-configure reports, that you don't have GTK 1.2 installed although you are
+configure reports, that you don't have GTK+ 1.2 installed although you are
very sure you have. Well, you have installed it, but you also have another
-version of the GTK installed, which you may need to remove including other
+version of the GTK+ installed, which you may need to remove including other
versions of glib (and its headers). Or maybe you installed it in non default
location and configure can't find it there, so please check that your PATH
variable includes the path to the correct gtk-config. Also check that your
they were installed in a non default location.
You get errors from make: please use GNU make instead of the native make
-program. Currently wxWindows can be built only with GNU make, BSD make and
+program. Currently wxWidgets can be built only with GNU make, BSD make and
Solaris make. Other versions might work or not (any which don't have VPATH
support definitely won't).
* 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, read my homepage at
* GUI libraries
---------------
-wxWindows/GTK requires the GTK+ library to be installed on your system. It has
+wxWidgets/GTK+ requires the GTK+ library to be installed on your system. It has
to be a stable version, preferably version 1.2.10 (at least 1.2.3 is required,
1.2.7 is strongly recommended).
-You can get the newest version of the GTK+ from the GTK homepage at:
+You can get the newest version of the GTK+ from the GTK+ homepage at:
http://www.gtk.org
* Additional libraries
----------------------
-wxWindows/Gtk requires a thread library and X libraries known to work with
+wxWidgets/Gtk 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
./configure --help
-It is recommended to build wxWindows in another directory (maybe a
-subdirectory of your wxWindows installation) as this allows you to
+It is recommended to build wxWidgets in another directory (maybe a
+subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation) as this allows you to
have multiple configurations (for example, debug and release or GTK
and Motif) simultaneously.
if you use all of our CVS repository you have to choose a
toolkit. You must do this by running configure with either of:
- --with-gtk Use the GIMP ToolKit (GTK). Default.
+ --with-gtk Use the GIMP ToolKit (GTK+). Default.
--with-motif Use either Motif or Lesstif
Configure will look for both.
--disable-shared Do not create shared libraries, but
build static libraries instead.
- --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 Sun with gcc 2.8.X which
would otherwise produce segvs.
+ --enable-unicode Enable Unicode support.
+
+ --enable-gtk2 Compiling using GTK+ 2 (the default).
+
--enable-profile Add profiling info to the object
files. Currently broken, I think.
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
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
--with-odbc Enables ODBC code. This is disabled
by default because iODBC is under the
L-GPL license which is less liberal than
- wxWindows license.
+ wxWidgets license.
--without-libpng Disables PNG image format code.
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.
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