wxWindows 2.0 for Motif installation
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-- Prerequisites: Motif 1.2 or above, or
- Lesstif (not yet tested).
+- Prerequisites: Motif 1.2 or above, or Lesstif
+ (not yet tested). Motif 2.0 and above may also be suitable.
- Download the files wx200gen.zip and wx200mot.zip, and
documentation in a preferred format, such as wx200htm.zip
files to Unix format. Don't worry about files being
overwritten: they should be identical anyway.
+COMPILING USING CONFIGURE
+
+- You can use the wxGTK configure system to make wxMotif, or
+ you can follow the following steps to use the simpler (but
+ less automatic) makefile system. If using configure, the
+ following script should make the library and samples, when
+ run from the top-level wxWindows directory (see also 'makewx'
+ in this directory):
+
+ # Make wxMotif using the configure system
+ chmod a+x install/unix/config.sub
+ install/unix/setup/general/* \
+ install/unix/config.guess install/unix/setup/shared/*
+ cd install/unix
+ autoconf && ./configure --with-shared --with-motif --with-debug_flag \
+ --with-debug_info --without-threads
+ cd ../..
+ make makefiles
+ make
+
+COMPILING USING MAKEFILES
+
+- Choose a .env file from src/makeenvs that matches your
+ environment, and copy it to src/make.env. These are the
+ settings read by wxWindows for Motif makefiles.
+
- Edit src/make.env to change options according to your local
environment. In particular, change WXDIR to where wxWindows is
- found on your system.
+ found on your system, or set the WXWIN environment variable
+ before compilation, e.g.:
+
+ export WXWIN=/home/jacs/wx2
+
Later, there will be a better makefile system
and/or alternate make.env files as per wxWindows 1.68.
Please feel free to contribute settings files for your environment.
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- Better installation and makefile systems are
- required. I didn't use the wxGTK system because I couldn't
- understand it or make it work with wxMotif. Also I think
- we should use something that can be made to work easily
- with applications outside the wxWindows hierarchy.
+ required. Although the wxGTK config system can be used to make
+ wxMotif and samples, it can't easily be made to work
+ with applications outside the wxWindows hierarchy. Hence the
+ simple makefile system.
- Debugging mode is switched on by default. To compile in non-debug
mode, remove the -D__WXDEBUG__ switch in make.env.
I'd prefer you to fix the problem and send the fix to me :-) or at
least let me know about it.
+- Thread support is switched off by default in setup.h (wxUSE_THREADS)
+ because standard Unices often do not have the necessary thread library
+ installed. Please see ../docs/gtk/install.txt for more details on this.
+ For Linux, the problem is expected to go away with future
+ distributions of the operating system.
+
+- If you have trouble compiling the file y_tab.c, or have strange
+ linking errors, check whether you're using a C or C++ compiler for this file.
+ You should specify a C compiler in the CCLEX variable in src/make.env.
+
+- If you run into problems with a missing X11/Xpm.h header, you
+ need to install the XPM package. It can be obtained from:
+
+ ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/libraries/xpm-3.4k.tar.gz
+ http://sunfreeware.com
+
+ You may need to modify make.env to add -I and -L options pointing to where Xpm
+ is installed and possibly change bitmap.cpp to
+ include <xpm.h> instead of <X11/xpm.h>
+
+ Alternatively, edit include/motif/setup.h, set wxUSE_XPM
+ to 0, and recompile. You will not be able to load any XPMs,
+ though (currently the only supported colour bitmap format).
+
- Please send bug reports with a description of your environment,
compiler and the error message(s) to the wxwin-users mailing list at:
wxwin-users@wx.dent.med.uni-muenchen.de
-Julian Smart, November 1998.
+Julian Smart, December 1998.
julian.smart@ukonline.co.uk
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