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You will find below the list of all supported platforms for different ports of wxWindows 2.x (wxMSW/wxGTK/wxMotif ports
-only). The cross icon in the third column doesn't mean that the platform is not supported, but just that wxWindows hasn't
-been tested on it recently.
+only). The cross icon in the third column doesn't mean that the platform is not supported, but just that wxWindows hasn't
+been tested on it recently (the table is being updated for wxWindows 2.3.3
+currently).
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+See also:
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+<ul>
+<li><A HREF="http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~zeitlin/wxWindows/daily/">daily rebuilds page</A> for some of the platforms mentioned below;
+<li>the list of <a href="supported.htm">support classes</a> in each platform;
+<li>the <a href="embedded.htm">wxEmbedded page</a> which describes embedded platforms supported
+or in progress.
+</ul>
+
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If you have tested wxWindows on a platform not mentioned here, please tell us about your experience on our mailing list!
We would especially like to have information about compiling wxGTK on other Unix variants, such as IRIX, DG-UX,
-other flavours of BSD, ...
+other flavours of BSD, ... Please note that you will generally need GNU make
+(also known as <tt>gmake</tt>) to compile wxWindows, native make programs
+often don't work.
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-<td bgcolor="#660000" colspan=5> <font size=+1 face="Arial, Lucida Sans, Helvetica" color="#FFFFFF"> wxWindows 2 Platforms </font> </td>
+<td bgcolor="#004080" colspan=5> <font size=+1 face="Arial, Lucida Sans, Helvetica" color="#FFFFFF"> wxWindows 2 Platforms </font> </td>
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-<td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" align=center valign=center rowspan=6>Win32 (Windows 9x/NT)</td>
- <td>Visual C++ 4.2/5.x/6.0</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="icons/yes.gif" ALT=Ok></td><td>VZ, JS</td><td>Project files are provided for all versions except 4.2</td>
-<tr> <td>Borland C++ 5.0</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="icons/no.gif" ALT=Unknown></td><td><br></td><td><br></td>
-<tr> <td>Myngw32</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="icons/no.gif" ALT=Unknown></td><td><br></td><td>Cross compilation from Linux works as well</td>
-<tr> <td>Cygwin</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="icons/no.gif" ALT=Unknown></td><td><br></td><td><br></td>
-<tr> <td>Watcom C++ 10</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="icons/no.gif" ALT=Unknown></td><td><br></td><td><br></td>
-<tr> <td>Symantec C++</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="icons/no.gif" ALT=Unknown></td><td><br></td><td><br></td>
+<td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" align=center valign=center rowspan=7>Win32<br>(Win 9x/NT/2K)</td>
+ <td>Visual C++ 4.2/5.x/6.0</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT=Ok></td><td>VZ, JS</td><td>Project files are provided for all versions except 4.2</td>
+<tr> <td>Borland C++ 5.0</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT=Ok></td><td><br></td><td>Also works with free command line Borland C++ 5.5</td>
+<tr> <td>Mingw32</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT=Ok></td><td>GRG, VZ</td><td>Cross compilation from Linux works as well<br>
+ Version 2.95.2 recommended, otherwise some (included) patches must be applied<br>
+ Memory debugging code doesn't seem to work well</td>
+<tr> <td>Cygwin</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT=Ok></td><td>Stephane Junique<br>Andrea Venturoli</td><td>tested under NT 4, cross-compiling for mingw also works</td>
+<tr> <td>Watcom C++ 10</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="images/somewhat.gif" ALT=Almost></td><td>JS</td><td>Tested with 10.6: works, but wxImage seems to be broken<br>no support for JPEG, TIFF or OpenGL</td>
+<tr> <td>Watcom C++ 11</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT=Ok></td><td>Markus Neifer</td><td>Tested with 11.0b under win95</td>
+<tr> <td>Symantec C++</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="images/no.gif" ALT=Unknown></td><td><br></td><td><br></td>
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-<td bgcolor="#F0F0F0" align=center valign=center rowspan=2>Win16 (Windows 3.1)</td>
- <td>Visual C++ 1.52</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="icons/no.gif" ALT=Unknown></td><td><br></td>
- <td rowspan=2 valign=center>Some features are missing (OLE related classes, threads, ...)</td>
-<tr> <td>Borland C++ 4.0</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="icons/no.gif" ALT=Unknown></td><td><br></td>
+<td bgcolor="#F0F0F0" align=center valign=center rowspan=2>Win16<br>(Windows 3.1)</td>
+ <td>Visual C++ 1.52</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="images/somewhat.gif" ALT=Ok></td><td><br></td>
+ <td rowspan=2 valign=center>Some features are missing (OLE related classes, threads, ...)<br>
+ Borland C++ can't cope with ODBC, resources and new wxGrid class</td>
+<tr> <td>Borland C++ 4.0/5.0</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="images/somewhat.gif" ALT=Ok></td><td>JS</td>
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-<td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" align=center valign=center rowspan=4>Linux</td>
- <td>wxGTK with gcc 2.7.2</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="icons/no.gif" ALT=Unknown></td><td><br></td><td><br></td>
-<tr> <td>wxGTK with egcs 1.1.1</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="icons/yes.gif" ALT=Ok></td><td>VZ, RR</td><td><br></td>
-<tr> <td>wxGTK with gcc 2.95</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="icons/no.gif" ALT=Unknown></td><td><br></td><td><br></td>
-<tr> <td>wxMotif with egcs 1.1.1</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="icons/yes.gif" ALT=Ok></td><td><br></td><td>with <a href=http://www.lesstif.org>LessTif</a> 0.87</td>
+<td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" align=center valign=center rowspan=5>Linux x86</td>
+ <td>wxGTK with gcc 2.7.2</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="images/no.gif" ALT=Unknown></td><td><br></td><td>Should work, but nobody uses it any more</td>
+<tr> <td>wxGTK with egcs 1.1.1</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT=Ok></td><td>VZ, RR</td><td><br></td>
+<tr> <td>wxGTK with gcc 2.95</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT=Ok></td><td><br></td><td><br></td>
+<tr> <td>wxMotif with egcs 1.1.1</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT=Ok></td><td><br></td><td>with <a href="http://www.lesstif.org">LessTif</a> 0.87</td>
+<tr> <td>wxMotif with gcc 2.95</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT=Ok></td><td><br></td><td>with <a href="http://www.openmotif.org">OpenMotif</a></td>
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<td bgcolor="#F0F0F0" align=center valign=center rowspan=1>FreeBSD</td>
- <td>wxGTK with gcc</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="icons/no.gif" ALT=Unknown></td><td><br></td><td><br></td>
+ <td>wxGTK with gcc</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT=Ok></td><td>VZ</td><td>Limited thread support on older systems</td>
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+<td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" align=center valign=center rowspan=5>Solaris</td>
+ <td>wxMotif with Sun CC 4.2</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT=Ok></td><td>VZ</td><td>Thread support must be disabled on system with not MT-safe X11</td>
+<tr> <td>wxMotif with gcc</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT=Ok></td><td><br></td><td><br></td>
+<tr> <td>wxGTK with Sun CC 4.2</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT=Ok></td><td>Shiv Shankar Ramakrishnan</td><td><br></td>
+<tr> <td>wxGTK with gcc</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT=Ok></td><td><br></td><td><br></td>
+<tr> <td>wxGTK with Sun CC 5.0 and 6.1 (Solaris 7 and 8)</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT=Ok></td><td>Jiri Mracek</td><td>You have to edit line 2079 in glib.h to fix GTK+ error</td>
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+<td bgcolor="#F0F0F0" align=center valign=center rowspan=3>AIX</td>
+ <td>wxGTK 2.2.9 with gcc 3.0.4</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT=Ok></td><td>Ian Brown</td><td>Shared library building doesn't work, use <tt>--disable-shared</tt></td>
+<tr> <td>wxGTK 2.3.3 with xlC (AIX 4.3.2)</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT=Ok></td><td>Irvin Probst</td><td>Both static and shared wxGTK libraries work, but only with static GTK+ and GLib</td>
+<tr> <td>wxMotif with xlC 3.1.4.0 (AIX 4.2)</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT=Ok></td>
+ <td>Bernhard Eck</td>
+ <td>Some problems with OpenGL and native X server</td>
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-<td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" align=center valign=center rowspan=3>Solaris</td>
- <td>wxMotif with Sun CC 4.2</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="icons/no.gif" ALT=Unknown></td><td><br></td><td><br></td>
-<tr> <td>wxMotif with gcc</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="icons/no.gif" ALT=Unknown></td><td><br></td><td><br></td>
-<tr> <td>wxGTK with gcc</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="icons/no.gif" ALT=Unknown></td><td><br></td><td><br></td>
+<td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" align=center valign=center rowspan=2>HP-UX 10.20</td>
+ <td>wxGTK with HP CC A.10.22<br>or HP aCC B3910B A.01.18</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT=Ok></td><td>Staf Verhaegen</td>
+ <td>you need to add <tt>-Aa -D_HPUX_SOURCE</tt> to <tt>CFLAGS</tt></td>
+<tr> <td>wxGTK with gcc</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT=Ok></td><td>Julian Albo Garcia</td><td><br></td>
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-<td bgcolor="#F0F0F0" align=center valign=center rowspan=2>AIX</td>
- <td>wxGTK with AIX CC</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="icons/no.gif" ALT=Unknown></td><td><br></td><td><br></td>
-<tr> <td>wxMotif with AIX CC</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="icons/no.gif" ALT=Unknown></td><td><br></td><td><br></td>
+<td bgcolor="#F0F0F0" align=center valign=center rowspan=6>IRIX</td>
+<tr> <td bgcolor="#fafafa" colspan=5>
+ Note that all entries use MIPSPro 7.3 compiler on IRIX 6.5.9 with <tt>-mips3 -n32</tt> flags if not mentioned otherwise.
+ Also note that you need to set <tt>LD_LIBRARYN32_PATH</tt> under IRIX to run wxWindows programs.
+ </td>
+<tr> <td>wxGTK 2.2</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT=Ok></td><td>Ian</td><td>You may need to use <tt>--disable-catch_segvs</tt> if you get compiler error in utilsunx.cpp</td>
+<tr> <td>wxGTK 2.3</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT=Ok></td><td>Carl Godkin</td><td><br></td>
+<tr> <td rowspan=2>wxMotif</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT=Ok></td><td>David Marshall</td><td>On IRIX 6.5.6 (Indigo2, 64bit), with SGI Motif 1.2</td>
+<tr> <td align=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT=Ok></td><td>Ian</td><td><br></td>
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-<td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" align=center valign=center rowspan=2>HP-UX</td>
- <td>wxGTK with HP CC A.10.22</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="icons/somewhat.gif" ALT=Unknown></td><td><br></td>
- <td>special extra compiler options must be manually added, see the docs for details</td>
-<tr> <td>wxGTK with gcc</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="icons/no.gif" ALT=Unknown></td><td><br></td><td><br></td>
+<td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" align=center valign=center rowspan=1>SCO UnixWare</td>
+ <td>wxGTK with gcc</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT=Ok></td><td>William Suetholz</td><td>UnixWare 2.1.3 with UnixWare 7 compatibility PTF</td>
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+
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+<td bgcolor="#F0F0F0" align=center valign=center rowspan=1>DEC OSF/1</td>
+ <td>wxGTK with gcc</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT=Ok></td><td>Fabrice Didierjean</td><td>OSF1 4.0 on Dec Alpha<br>
+ you may need to run configure with <tt>--host=alpha-dec-osf switch</tt></td>
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+<td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" align=center valign=center rowspan=4>OS/2</td>
+ <td>VisualAge 3.0/4.0</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="images/no.gif" ALT="Not yet"></td><td>DW</td>
+ <td rowspan=2 valign=center>OS/2 port is work in progress...</td>
+<tr> <td>EMX</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="images/no.gif" ALT="Not yet"></td><td>SN</td>
+<tr> <td>wxGTK with EMX</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT=Ok></td><td>SN</td><td>configure scripts need to be regenerated with OS/2 port of autoconf</td>
+<tr> <td>wxMotif with EMX</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT=Ok></td><td>SN</td><td>with <a href="http://www.lesstif.org">LessTif</a> 0.89; configure scripts need to be regenerated with OS/2 port of autoconf</td>
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+<td bgcolor="#F0F0F0" align=center valign=center rowspan=1>OpenVMS</td>
+<td>wxGTK with Compaq-C++ V6.2 (OpenVMS Alpha 7.3)</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT=Ok></td><td>Jouk Jansen</td><td><br></td>
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+<td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" align=center valign=center rowspan=1>Linux S/390</td>
+<td>wxGTK with gcc 2.95.2</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="images/yes.gif" ALT=Ok></td><td>VZ</td><td>2.3.1+ only</td>
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-Contact <A HREF="mailto:zeitlin@dptmaths.ens-cachan.fr">me</A> with
+Contact <A HREF="mailto:zeitlin@dptmaths.ens-cachan.fr">Vadim Zeitlin</A> with
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