This document will describe the few differences and additions to the
-content in BUILD.txt for installing wxPython built from source.
-Please follow the intstructions both in this file and in BUILD.txt to
-perform this task. Where there is overlap the items described here
-will take precedence.
+content in the BUILD_ document for installing wxPython built from
+source. Please follow the intstructions both in this file and in
+BUILD_ to perform this task. Where there is overlap the items
+described here will take precedence for doing installations.
+
+.. _BUILD: BUILD.html
Installing on Unix-like Systems (not OS X)
------------------------------------------
-1. When building wxWindows you need to decide if you want it to be a
+1. When building wxWidgets you need to decide if you want it to be a
private copy only accessed by wxPython, or if you would like it to
be installed in a stanard location such as /usr. Or perhaps you
- already have a version of wxWindows installed on your system (such
+ already have a version of wxWidgets installed on your system (such
as from an RPM) and you want wxPython to use that version too. If
so then you'll want to ensure that the flags and options used to
build the installed version are compatible with wxPython.
-2. If you do decide to build and install your own wxWindows then there
+2. If you do decide to build and install your own wxWidgets then there
are a few tweaks to the configure flags described in BUILD.txt that
you will probably want to make. Instead of --enable-debug use
this configure flag::
--enable-optimize \
- Normally I also use the following flag in order to have wxWindows
+ Normally I also use the following flag in order to have wxWidgets
runtime assertions turned into Python exceptions where possible.
It does add extra code to the build but probably not enough to
worry about it. However if you want to get as lean a build as
possible you can leave it out, but if your code does something bad
- then instead of exceptions you'll likely get a crash.
+ then instead of exceptions you'll likely get a crash::
--enable-debug_flag \
- If you are building a private copy of wxWindows (IOW, not installed
- in a standard library location) the it can be kind of a hassle to
+ If you are building a private copy of wxWidgets (IOW, not installed
+ in a standard library location) then it can be kind of a hassle to
always have to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable so wxPython can
- find the wxWindows shared libraries. You can hard code the library
+ find the wxWidgets shared libraries. You can hard code the library
path into the binaries by using the rpath option when configuring
- wxWindows. For example::
+ wxWidgets. For example::
--enable-rpath=/opt/wx/2.5/lib \
SOLARIS NOTE: The --enable-rpath option may cause problems when
using wxGTK on Solaris when compiling wxPython as described below.
The woraround is to not use --enable-rpath flag for configure, but
- in that case all wxPython applications must have the
+ in that case all wxPython applications *must* have the
LD_LIBRARY_PATH set to include $WXPREF/lib, or you can use the
'crle' program to modify the runtime linking environment. If this
is the only installation of wxGTK on the system then you can use a
4. In addition to building wxPython as described in BUILD.txt, you can
- install it to Python's site-packages dir, as well as some scrpts
+ install it to Python's site-packages dir, as well as some scripts
into the same bin dir used by Python by using this command::
python2.3 setup.py install
Installing wxPython on OS X is nearly the same as the Unix
instructions above, except for a few small, but important details:
-1. The --enable-rpath configure option is not supported. (At least it
- didn't the last time I checked...) If there is a way to do
- something similar please let me know.
-
-2. If you don't install wxWindows to a standard location you will need
- to use the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable instead of the
- LD_LIBRARY_PATH described above.
+1. The --enable-rpath configure option is not needed since the path to
+ the wxWidgets dylibs will automatically be encoded into the
+ extension modules when they are built. If you end up moving the
+ wxWidgets dynlibs to some other location (such as inside the .app
+ bundle of your applicaiton for distribution to other users,) then
+ you will need to set DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH to this location so the
+ dylibs can be found at runtime.
-3. Depending on the version of OS X Python may be installed in
- differnet locations. On 10.2 (Jaguar) you need to download and
+2. Depending on the version of OS X Python may be installed in
+ different locations. On 10.2 (Jaguar) you need to download and
install MacPython-OSX-2.3 from http://www.python.org/ and the
Python Framework will then be installed in /Library/Frameworks. On
10.3 (Panther) Apple supplies the Python Framework as part of the
- OS install, but it will located in /System/LIbrary/Frameworks
- instead. To complicate things further, the Jaguar version, or a
- custom build you do yourself will end up in /Library/Frameworks
- even on Panther...
+ OS install, but it will be located in /System/Library/Frameworks
+ instead. However, on Panther the site-packages dir is sym-linked
+ to /Library/Python/2.3 so the wxPython packages will end up there,
+ although they will still be visible from site-packages. If you are
+ building distributions of wxPython to be installed on other
+ machines be careful to install to /Library/Python/2.3. To
+ complicate things further, the Jaguar version, or a custom build
+ you do yourself will end up in /Library/Frameworks even on
+ Panther...
-4. You need to use pythonw at the command line or PythonLauncher app
- to run wxPython apps.
+3. You need to use pythonw at the command line or PythonLauncher app
+ to run wxPython apps, otherwise the app will not be able to fully
+ use the GUI display.
Installing on Windows
---------------------
-1. Build wxWindows and wxPython as described in BUILD.txt. If you
+1. Build wxWidgets and wxPython as described in BUILD.txt. If you
would rather have a version without the code that turns runtime
assertions into Python exceptions, then use "release" instead of
- "hybrid" when building wxWindows and add "FINAL=1" to the setup.py
+ "hybrid" when building wxWidgets and add "FINAL=1" to the setup.py
command line.
-2. Install wxPython like this::
+2. Install wxPython like this. Remember to add any additional flags
+ you added for the build such as UNICODE or USE_SWIG::
python setup.py install
-3. Copy the wxWindows DLLs to the wx package directory so they can be
+3. Copy the wxWidgets DLLs to the wx package directory so they can be
found at runtime by the extension modules without requiring that
they be installed on the PATH::
- copy %WXWIN%\BIN\wx*h_*.dll c:\Python23\Lib\site-pacakges\wx
+ copy %WXWIN%\lib\vc_dll\wx*h_*.dll c:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\wx
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