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[wxWidgets.git] / docs / msw / install.txt

diff --git a/docs/msw/install.txt b/docs/msw/install.txt
index 11614b5bc0a4fa72be827ca7752ab0ee618cd8f2..58c11b8903d8ec287888493f754e1c8907102aa2 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/msw/install.txt
+++ b/docs/msw/install.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-Installing wxWidgets 2.8.0
+Installing wxWidgets for Windows
 -----------------------------------------------------------
 
-This is wxWidgets 2.8.0 for Microsoft Windows 9x/ME, Windows NT,
+This is wxWidgets for Microsoft Windows 9x/ME, Windows NT,
 Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows CE.
 
 These installation notes can be found in docs/msw/install.txt
@@ -303,12 +303,29 @@ recompile wxWidgets. The same applies if compiling using the IDE.
 Note (3): If you wish debug messages to be sent to the console in
 debug mode, edit makefile.bcc and change /aa to /Tpe in link commands.
 
-Cmpilation succeeds with CBuilderX personal edition and CBuilder6, but 
+Using the Debugger and IDE in BDS or Turbo Explorer
+---------------------------------------------------
+
+
+Doubleclick / open samples\minimal\borland.bdsproj. The current version 
+is to be used with a dynamic build of wxWidgets-made by running
+make -f Makefile.bcc -DBUILD=debug -DSHARED=1
+in wxWidgets\build\msw. You also need the wxWidgets\lib\bcc_dll
+directory in your PATH. The debugger tracks your source and aslo
+travces into the wxWidgets sources.
+
+To use this to debug other samples, copy the borland_ide.cpp
+and borland.bdsproj files, then replace all occurences of
+"minimal" with the name of the new project files
+
+Compilation succeeds with CBuilderX personal edition and CBuilder6, but 
 you may have to copy make.exe from the 5.5 download to the new bin directory.
+
 Compiling using the IDE files for Borland C++ 5.0 and using CBuilder IDE 
 (v1-v6): not supported 
 
 
+
 ** REMEMBER **
 
 In all of your wxWidgets applications, your source code should include
@@ -368,7 +385,7 @@ Metrowerks CodeWarrior compilation
 **       The authoritative list of files is in build/bakefiles/files.bkl
 
 1. CodeWarrior Pro 7 project files in XML format are already
-   included in wxMSW-2.8.0.zip and the setup version.
+   included in wxMSW-2.8.x.zip and the setup version.
 
 2. Review the file include\wx\msw\setup.h (or include\wx\msw\setup0.h if
    you are working from the CVS version) to make sure the settings reflect
@@ -685,9 +702,9 @@ SHARED=1
   Build shared libraries (DLLs). By default, DLLs are not built
   (SHARED=0).
 
-UNICODE=1
-  To build Unicode versions of the libraries, add UNICODE=1 to make invocation
-  (default is UNICODE=0). If you want to be able to use Unicode version on
+UNICODE=0
+  To build ANSI versions of the libraries, add UNICODE=0 to make invocation
+  (default is UNICODE=1). If you want to be able to use Unicode version on
   Windows9x, you will need to set MSLU=1 as well.
 
   This option affect name of the library ('u' is appended) and the directory
@@ -761,6 +778,10 @@ DEBUG_INFO=1
   Same as DEBUG_FLAG in behaviour, this option affects whether debugging
   information is included in the executable or not.
 
+TARGET_CPU=AMD64|IA64
+  (VC++ only.) Set this variable to build for x86_64 systems. If unset, x86
+  build is performed.
+
 VENDOR=<your company name>
   Set this to a short string identifying your company if you are planning to
   distribute wxWidgets DLLs with your application. Default value is 'custom'.
@@ -775,6 +796,14 @@ CFG=<configuration name>
   different setup.h settings coexisting in same tree. See "Object and library
   directories" below for more information.
 
+COMPILER_PREFIX=<string>
+  If you build with multiple versions of the same compiler, you can put
+  their outputs into directories like "vc6_lib", "vc8_lib" etc. instead of
+  "vc_lib" by setting this variable to e.g. "vc6". This is merely a
+  convenience variable, you can achieve the same effect (but different dir
+  names) with the CFG option.
+
+
 Compiler specific options
 ----------------------------------------------------------------