-wxWindows 2.3 for MGL installation
+wxWindows 2.5 for MGL installation
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IMPORTANT NOTE:
When sending bug reports tell us what version of wxWindows you are
using (including the beta) and what compiler on what system. One
- example: wxMGL 2.3.3, gcc 2.95.3, Redhat 7.0
+ example: wxMGL 2.5.0, gcc 2.95.3, Redhat 7.0
First steps
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- Download SciTech MGL library (version 5.0) from http://www.scitechsoft.com.
- (You needed a version newer than Beta 5! Preferably the one from SciTech
- Perforce repository.)
- Install it according to provided instructions. In particular, make sure that
+ The downloads page is here (you need MGL version 5.0beta7 or newer):
+ http://www.scitechsoft.com/products/embedded/mgl_home.html
+
+ Install MGL according to provided instructions. In particular, make sure that
MGL_ROOT and NUCLEUS_PATH environment variables are set before attempting to
build wxMGL.
+ Make sure you installed all MGL components, including the "fonts" package
+ (it's called mgl50b7-font.tar.gz in Linux version). It is important to have
+ SciTech's basic fonts in $(MGL_ROOT)/fonts directory (you may want to add
+ Arial TrueType font for better output quality) and basic cursors in
+ $(MGL_ROOT)/cursors. wxMGL depends on their presence.
+
- Download wxMGL-x.y.z.tgz, where x.y.z is the version number.
Download documentation in a preferred format, such as
wxWindows-HTML.zip or wxWindows-PDF.zip.
'make install' will install wx-config script that can (and should) be used
to get compiler flags that are needed to build your program. wx-config --cxxflags
-will output neccessary C++ compiler flags and wx-config --libs will list all
+will output necessary C++ compiler flags and wx-config --libs will list all
needed libraries. See an example of wxWindows application makefile:
minimal: minimal.o