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
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 \
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 be located in /System/Library/Frameworks
- instead. However, on Panther the site-pacakges dir is sym-linked
- to /Library/Python/2.3 so the wxPython pacakges will end up there,
+ 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
"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
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