- !!! When sending bug reports tell us what version of wxWindows you are
- using (including the beta) and what compiler on what system. One
- example: wxWINE 2.1 snapshot 6, egcs 1.1.1, Redhat 5.0 !!!
-
-* Preparing WINE
-----------------
-
-Most C++ compilers cannot compile the WINE sources yet (this includes
-all versions of g++ and ecgs) so you have to make a minimal change
-and recompile all of WINE in order to get anywhere.
+* The most simple case
+-----------------------
-This change has do be applied to the /include/windef.h file, line 59
-in the section "Calling convention defintions", where the sources
-reads:
+If you compile wxWidgets on Linux for the first time and don't like to read
+install instructions just do (in the base dir):
-#if __i386__
+> ./configure --with-wine
+> make
+> su <type root password>
+> make install
+> ldconfig
+> exit
-which has to be changed into
+On all variants of Unix except Linux (and maybe except *BSD), shared libraries
+are not supported out of the box due to the utter stupidity of libtool, so you'll
+have to do this to get shared library support:
-#if 0
+> ./configure --with-wine --disable-unicode --disable-static --enable-shared
-After this change, you'll have to recompile all of WINE without
-forgetting to install it. The direct consequence of this change
-is that the Win32 binary emulator won't work anymore, as the
-change disables the Windows native calling convention.
+Then you'll have to edit the wrongly created libtool script. There are two
+important entries with respect to shared library creation, which are
-* The most simple case
------------------------
+ archive_cmds="\$LD -shared ....
+ archive_expsym_cmds="\$LD -shared ....
+
+which should be something like
-If you compile wxWindows on Unix for the first time and don't like to read
-install instructions just do (in the base dir):
+ archive_cmds="\$CC -shared ....
+ archive_expsym_cmds="\$CC -shared ....
+
+Afterwards you can continue with
-./configure --with-wine
-make
-su <type root password>
-make install
-ldconfig
-exit
+> make
+> su <type root password>
+> make install
+> ldconfig
+> exit
-If you want to remove wxWindows on Unix you can do this:
+If you want to remove wxWidgets on Unix you can do this:
-su <type root password>
-make uninstall
-ldconfig
-exit
+> su <type root password>
+> make uninstall
+> ldconfig
+> exit
* The expert case
-----------------
-If you want to do some more serious cross-platform programming with wxWindows,
+If you want to do some more serious cross-platform programming with wxWidgets,
such as for GTK and Motif, you can now build two complete libraries and use
-them concurretly. For this end, you have to create a directory for each build
-of wxWindows - you may also want to create different versions of wxWindows
+them concurrently. For this end, you have to create a directory for each build
+of wxWidgets - you may also want to create different versions of wxWidgets
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.
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
+you have to disable optimisation as the compiler will give up with an internal
compiler error.
If there is just any way for you to use egcs, use egcs. We cannot fix gcc.
* General
-----------------------
-The Unix variants of wxWindows use GNU configure. If you have problems with your
+The Unix variants of wxWidgets 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
* GUI libraries
-----------------------
-wxWindows/WINE requires the WINE library to be installed on your system.
+wxWidgets/WINE requires the WINE library to be installed on your system.
You can get the newest version of the WINE from the WINE homepage at:
-----------------------------
Usage:
- ./configure options
+ ./configure options
If you want to use system's C and C++ compiler,
set environment variables CC and CCC as
- % setenv CC cc
- % setenv CCC CC
- % ./configure options
+ % setenv CC cc
+ % setenv CCC CC
+ % ./configure options
to see all the options please use:
- ./configure --help
+ ./configure --help
The basic philosophy is that if you want to use different
configurations, like a debug and a release version,
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).
+Many of the configure options have been thoroughly tested
+in wxWidgets snapshot 6, but not yet all (ODBC not).
You must do this by running configure with either of:
- --with-wine Use the WINE library
-
+ --with-wine Use the WINE library
+
The following options handle the kind of library you want to build.
- --enable-threads Compile without thread support. Threads
- support is also required for the
- socket code to work.
-
- --disable-shared Do not create shared libraries.
-
- --disable-optimise Do not optimise the code. Can
- sometimes be useful for debugging
- and is required on some architectures
- such as Sun with gcc 2.8.X which
- would otherwise produce segvs.
-
- --enable-profile Add profiling info to the object
- files. Currently broken, I think.
-
- --enable-mem_tracing Add built-in memory tracing.
-
- --enable-dmalloc Use the dmalloc memory debugger.
- Read more at www.letters.com/dmalloc/
-
- --enable-debug_info Add debug info to object files and
- executables for use with debuggers
- such as gdb (or its many frontends).
-
- --enable-debug_flag Define __DEBUG__ and __WXDEBUG__ when
- compiling. This enable wxWindows' very
- useful internal debugging tricks (such
- as automatically reporting illegal calls)
- to work. Note that program and library
- must be compiled with the same debug
- options.
+ --enable-threads Compile with thread support. Threads
+ support is also required for the
+ socket code to work.
+
+ --disable-shared Do not create shared libraries.
+
+ --disable-optimise Do not optimise the code. Can
+ sometimes be useful for debugging
+ and is required on some architectures
+ such as Sun with gcc 2.8.X which
+ would otherwise produce segvs.
+
+ --enable-profile Add profiling info to the object
+ files. Currently broken, I think.
+
+ --enable-no_rtti Enable compilation without creation of
+ C++ RTTI information in object files.
+ This will speed-up compilation and reduce
+ binary size.
+
+ --enable-no_exceptions Enable compilation without creation of
+ C++ exception information in object files.
+ This will speed-up compilation and reduce
+ binary size. Also fewer crashes during the
+ actual compilation...
+
+ --enable-mem_tracing Add built-in memory tracing.
+
+ --enable-dmalloc Use the dmalloc memory debugger.
+ Read more at www.letters.com/dmalloc/
+
+ --enable-debug_info Add debug info to object files and
+ executables for use with debuggers
+ such as gdb (or its many frontends).
+
+ --enable-debug_flag Define __DEBUG__ and __WXDEBUG__ when
+ compiling. This enable wxWidgets' very
+ useful internal debugging tricks (such
+ as automatically reporting illegal calls)
+ to work. Note that program and library
+ must be compiled with the same debug
+ options.
* Feature Options
-------------------
-Many of the confiugre options have been thoroughly tested
-in wxWindows snapshot 6, but not yet all (ODBC not).
+Many of the configure options have been thoroughly tested
+in wxWidgets snapshot 6, but not yet all (ODBC not).
When producing an executable that is linked statically with wxGTK
you'll be surprised at its immense size. This can sometimes be
-drastically reduced by removing features from wxWindows that
+drastically reduced by removing features from wxWidgets that
are not used in your program. The most relevant such features
are
- --without-libpng Disables PNG image format code.
-
- --without-libjpeg Disables JPEG image format code.
-
-{ --without-odbc Disables ODBC code. Not yet. }
-
- --disable-resources Disables the use of *.wxr type
- resources.
-
- --disable-threads Disables threads. Will also
- disable sockets.
-
- --disable-sockets Disables sockets.
-
- --disable-dnd Disables Drag'n'Drop.
-
- --disable-clipboard Disables Clipboard.
-
- --disable-serial Disables object instance serialiasation.
-
- --disable-streams Disables the wxStream classes.
-
- --disable-file Disables the wxFile class.
-
- --disable-textfile Disables the wxTextFile class.
-
- --disable-intl Disables the internationalisation.
-
- --disable-validators Disables validators.
-
- --disable-accel Disables accel.
-
+ --without-libpng Disables PNG image format code.
+
+ --without-libjpeg Disables JPEG image format code.
+
+{ --without-odbc Disables ODBC code. Not yet. }
+
+ --disable-resources Disables the use of *.wxr type
+ resources.
+
+ --disable-threads Disables threads. Will also
+ disable sockets.
+
+ --disable-sockets Disables sockets.
+
+ --disable-dnd Disables Drag'n'Drop.
+
+ --disable-clipboard Disables Clipboard.
+
+ --disable-serial Disables object instance serialisation.
+
+ --disable-streams Disables the wxStream classes.
+
+ --disable-file Disables the wxFile class.
+
+ --disable-textfile Disables the wxTextFile class.
+
+ --disable-intl Disables the internationalisation.
+
+ --disable-validators Disables validators.
+
+ --disable-accel Disables accel.
+
Apart from disabling certain features you can very often "strip"
the program of its debugging information resulting in a significant
reduction in size.
Now the makefiles are created (by configure) and you can compile
the library by typing:
- make
+ make
make yourself some coffee, as it will take some time. On an old
386SX possibly two weeks. During compilation, you'll get a few
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
- make install
+ make install
-You can remove any traces of wxWindows by typing
+You can remove any traces of wxWidgets by typing
make uninstall
-
+
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.
$(CC) `wx-config --cflags` -c minimal.cpp -o minimal.o
clean:
- rm -f *.o minimal
+ 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
+directories of wxWidgets. For this endeavour, you'll need
the usual number of GNU tools, at least
GNU automake version 1.4
In the hope that it will be useful,
Robert Roebling <roebling@sun2.ruf.uni-freiburg.de>
-
-
+
+
+Addition notes by Julian Smart, August 2002
+===========================================
+
+I've fixed some compile errors, and got as far as
+compiling wxWINE, but actually linking a sample will take
+further work.
+
+To compile wxWINE, export these variables:
+
+export CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include/wine
+export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib/wine
+
+and configure with:
+
+configure --disable-static --enable-shared --enable-gui \
+ --with-wine --without-libpng --enable-debug_flag --enable-log \
+ --enable-debug_info --enable-ole --enable-clipboard --enable-dataobj \
+ --enable-debug --enable-threads --disable-sockets \
+ --with-libjpeg --enable-debug_cntxt
+
+Compiling a sample won't work yet because 'winebuild' needs
+to be called, and the resuling C file compiled and linked.
+Plus, Windows DLLs need to be imported.
+
+Note that the documentation on the WINE web site on using
+winebuild is out of date (August 2002) -- the spec file no
+longer supports import and type keywords. Instead look at
+samples in the WINE 'programs' directory for inspiration
+and compile options to use. It's probable that the
+wxWINE library will need recompiling with different options.
+
+Any progress on this front will be very welcome.
+
+Note that while wxWINE builds with --enable-unicode, samples
+don't run. Some samples will run when built with
+--disable-unicode, and others (such as auidemo) fail.
+