-wxWindows 2.3 for X11 installation
-------------------------------------
+wxWindows 2.5 for X11 installation
+----------------------------------
IMPORTANT NOTE:
osname.txt for your platform if it exists) carefully before
mailing wxwin-users or the author. Preferably, try to fix the
problem first and then send a patch to the author.
-
+
When sending bug reports tell us what version of wxWindows you are
using (including the beta) and what compiler on what system. One
- example: wxX11 2.3.0, egcs 1.1.1, Redhat 5.0
+ example: wxX11 2.5.0, gcc 2.95.4, Redhat 6.2
First steps
-----------
COMPILING USING CONFIGURE
=========================
-* The most simple case
------------------------
+* The simplest case
+-------------------
If you compile wxWindows on Linux for the first time and don't like to read
install instructions just do (in the base dir):
If you want to do some more serious cross-platform programming with wxWindows,
such as for GTK and X11, you can now build two complete libraries and use
-them concurretly. For this end, you have to create a directory for each build
+them concurrently. For this end, you have to create a directory for each build
of wxWindows - you may also want to create different versions of wxWindows
and test them concurrently. Most typically, this would be a version configured
-with --enable-debug_flag and one without. Note, that only one build can currently
-be installed, so you'd have to use local version of the library for that purpose.
+with --enable-debug_flag and one without. Note, that only one build can
+currently be installed, so you'd have to use local version of the library for
+that purpose.
+
For building three versions (one GTK, one X11 and a debug version of the GTK
source) you'd do this:
md buildx11
cd buildx11
-../configure --with-x11 --with-universal
+../configure --with-x11
make
cd ..
make
cd ..
-* The most simple errors
-------------------------
-
-You get errors during compilation: The reason is that you probably have a broken
-compiler, which includes almost everything that is called gcc. If you use gcc 2.8
-you have to disable optimsation as the compiler will give up with an internal
-compiler error.
+* The simplest errors
+---------------------
-If there is just any way for you to use egcs, use egcs. We cannot fix gcc.
+You get errors during compilation: The reason is that you probably have a
+broken compiler. GCC 2.8 and earlier versions and egcs are likely to cause
+problems due to incomplete support for C++ and optimisation bugs. Best to use
+GCC 2.95 or later.
-You get immediate segfault when starting any sample or application: This is either
-due to having compiled the library with different flags or options than your program -
-typically you might have the __WXDEBUG__ option set for the library but not for your
-program - or due to using a broken compiler (and its optimisation) such as GCC 2.8.
+You get immediate segfault when starting any sample or application: This is
+either due to having compiled the library with different flags or options than
+your program - typically you might have the __WXDEBUG__ option set for the
+library but not for your program - or due to using a compiler with optimisation
+bugs.
-* The most simple program
--------------------------
+* The simplest program
+----------------------
-Now create your super-application myfoo.app and compile anywhere with
+Now create your super-application myfoo.cpp and compile anywhere with
-g++ myfoo.cpp `wx-config --libs --cflags` -o myfoo
+g++ myfoo.cpp `wx-config --libs --cxxflags` -o myfoo
* General
------------------------
+---------
-The Unix variants of wxWindows use GNU configure. If you have problems with your
-make use GNU make instead.
+The Unix variants of wxWindows use GNU configure. If you have problems with
+your make use GNU make instead.
-If you have general problems with installation, read my homepage at
+If you have general problems with installation, see the wxWindows website at
- http://wesley.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~wxxt
+ http://www.wxwindows.org/
for newest information. If you still don't have any success, please send a bug
report to one of our mailing lists (see my homepage) INCLUDING A DESCRIPTION OF
-YOUR SYSTEM AND YOUR PROBLEM, SUCH AS YOUR VERSION OF GTK, WXGTK, WHAT DISTRIBUTION
+YOUR SYSTEM AND YOUR PROBLEM, SUCH AS YOUR VERSION OF X, WHAT DISTRIBUTION
YOU USE AND WHAT ERROR WAS REPORTED. I know this has no effect, but I tried...
* GUI libraries
------------------------
-
-wxWindows/X11 requires the X11 library to be installed on your system. As
-an alternative, you may also use the free library "lesstif" which implements
-most of the X11 API without the licence restrictions of X11.
-
-You can get the newest version of the Lesstif from the lesstif homepage at:
+---------------
- http://www.lesstif.org
+wxWindows/X11 requires the X11 library to be installed on your system.
* Additional libraries
------------------------
+----------------------
-wxWindows/X11 requires a thread library and X libraries known to work with threads.
-This is the case on all commercial Unix-Variants and all Linux-Versions that are
-based on glibc 2 except RedHat 5.0 which is broken in many aspects. As of writing
-this, these Linux distributions have correct glibc 2 support:
+wxWindows/X11 requires a thread library and X libraries known to work with
+threads. This is the case on all commercial Unix-Variants and all
+Linux-Versions that are based on glibc 2 except RedHat 5.0 which is broken in
+many aspects. As of writing this, these Linux distributions have correct glibc
+2 support:
- RedHat 5.1
- - Debian 2.0
+ - Debian 2.0 and 3.0
- Stampede
- DLD 6.0
- SuSE 6.0
You can disable thread support by running
-./configure "--disable-threads"
+./configure --disable-threads
make
su <type root password>
make install
ldconfig
exit
-NB: DO NOT COMPILE WXGTK WITH GCC AND THREADS, SINCE ALL PROGRAMS WILL
-CRASH UPON START-UP! Just always use egcs and be happy.
-
-* Building wxGTK on OS/2
---------------------------
+* Building wxX11 on OS/2
+------------------------
Please send comments and question about the OS/2 installation
to Andrea Venturoli <a.ventu@flashnet.it> and patches to
the wxWindows mailing list.
You'll need OS/2 Warp (4.00FP#6), X-Free86/2 (3.3.3 or newer),
-Lesstif (0.89.1 or newer), emx (0.9d fix 1), flex (2.5.4),
-yacc (1.8), unix like shell, e.g. korn shell (5.2.13),
-Autoconf (2.13), GNU file utilities (3.6),
+emx (0.9d fix 1), flex (2.5.4), yacc (1.8), unix like shell,
+e.g. korn shell (5.2.13), Autoconf (2.13), GNU file utilities (3.6),
GNU text utilities (1.3), GNU shell utilites (1.12), m4 (1.4),
sed (2.05), grep (2.0), Awk (3.0.3), GNU Make (3.76.1).
configure --with-x11
as described above.
-To verify Lesstif installation, configure will try to compile a
+To verify X11 installation, configure will try to compile a
sample program that requires X headers/libraries to be either
available via C_INCLUDE_PATH and LIBRARY_PATH or you need to
explicitly set CFLAGS prior to running configure.
makefile.
* Building wxX11 on SGI
---------------------------
+-----------------------
Using the SGI native compilers, it is recommended that you
also set CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS before running configure. These
The SGI native compiler support has only been tested on Irix 6.5.
* Create your configuration
------------------------------
+---------------------------
Usage:
- ./configure options
+ ./configure [options]
If you want to use system's C and C++ compiler,
set environment variables CXX and CC as
% setenv CC cc
% setenv CXX CC
- % ./configure options
+ % ./configure [options]
to see all the options please use:
* General options
--------------------
+-----------------
Given below are the commands to change the default behaviour,
i.e. if it says "--disable-threads" it means that threads
are enabled by default.
-Many of the confiugre options have been thoroughly tested
-in wxWindows snapshot 6, but not yet all (ODBC not).
-
You have to add --with-x11 on platforms, where X11 is
-not the default (on Linux, configure will deafult to GTK).
+not the default (on Linux, configure will default to GTK).
- --without-gtk Don't use the GIMP ToolKit (GTK).
-
- --with-x11 Use X11.
-
- --with-universal Needs to be specified with X11.
+ --with-x11 Use X11.
The following options handle the kind of library you want to build.
--enable-no_deps Enable compilation without creation of
dependency information.
- --enable-permissive Enable compilation without creation of
- giving erros as soon as you compile with
- Solaris ANSI-defying headers...
+ --enable-permissive Enable compilation without checking for strict
+ ANSI conformance. Useful to prevent the build
+ dying with errors as soon as you compile with
+ Solaris' ANSI-defying headers.
--enable-mem_tracing Add built-in memory tracing.
options.
* Feature Options
--------------------
+-----------------
-Many of the confiugre options have been thoroughly tested
+Many of the configure options have been thoroughly tested
in wxWindows snapshot 6, but not yet all (ODBC not).
-When producing an executable that is linked statically with wxGTK
+When producing an executable that is linked statically with wxX11
you'll be surprised at its immense size. This can sometimes be
drastically reduced by removing features from wxWindows that
are not used in your program. The most relevant such features
--disable-clipboard Disables Clipboard.
- --disable-serial Disables object instance serialiasation.
+ --disable-serial Disables object instance serialisation.
--disable-streams Disables the wxStream classes.
reduction in size.
* Compiling
--------------
+-----------
-The following must be done in the base directory (e.g. ~/wxGTK
-or ~/wxWin or whatever)
+The following must be done in the base directory (e.g. ~/wxX11
+or whatever)
Now the makefiles are created (by configure) and you can compile
the library by typing:
warning messages depending in your compiler.
If you want to be more selective, you can change into a specific
-directiry and type "make" there.
+directory and type "make" there.
-Then you may install the library and it's header files under
+Then you may install the library and its header files under
/usr/local/include/wx and /usr/local/lib respectively. You
have to log in as root (i.e. run "su" and enter the root
password) and type
If you want to save disk space by removing unnecessary
object-files:
- make clean
+ make clean
in the various directories will do the work for you.
* Creating a new Project
---------------------------
+------------------------
1) The first way uses the installed libraries and header files
automatically using wx-config
-g++ myfoo.cpp `wx-config --libs` `wx-config --cflags` -o myfoo
+g++ myfoo.cpp `wx-config --libs` `wx-config --cxxflags` -o myfoo
Using this way, a make file for the minimal sample would look
like this
$(CXX) -o minimal minimal.o `wx-config --libs`
minimal.o: minimal.cpp mondrian.xpm
- $(CXX) `wx-config --cflags` -c minimal.cpp -o minimal.o
+ $(CXX) `wx-config --cxxflags` -c minimal.cpp -o minimal.o
clean:
rm -f *.o minimal
This is certain to become the standard way unless we decide
-to sitch to tmake.
+to stick to tmake.
2) The other way creates a project within the source code
directories of wxWindows. For this endeavour, you'll need
and configure before you can type make.
* Further notes by Julian Smart
----------------------------------
+-------------------------------
- You may find the following script useful for compiling wxX11,
especially if installing from zips (which don't preserve file
# anyhow
# -- Julian Smart
chmod a+x configure config.sub config.guess
- ./configure --with-shared --with-x11 --with-universal --without-gtk --with-debug_flag --with-debug_info --enable-debug --without-threads --without-sockets --without-odbc
+ ./configure --with-x11 --with-shared --with-debug_flag --with-debug_info --enable-debug --without-threads --without-sockets --without-odbc
make
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Troubleshooting
---------------
-- Solaris compilation with gcc: if the compiler has problems with the variable argument
- functions, try putting the gcc fixinclude file paths early in the include
- path.
+- Solaris compilation with gcc: if the compiler has problems with the variable
+ argument functions, try putting the gcc fixinclude file paths early in the
+ include path.
- If you operator-related compile errors or strange memory problems
(for example in deletion of string arrays), set wxUSE_GLOBAL_MEMORY_OPERATORS
recommended to use --with-debug_info and --with-debug_flag configure
switches while developing your application. To compile in non-debug
mode, remove the -D__WXDEBUG__ switch in make.env (or if using the
- configure system, change --with-debug_flag to --without_debug_flag
+ configure system, change --with-debug_flag to --without-debug_flag
and --with-debug_info to --without-debug_info in the makewxx11
script).
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