How to build the sources from CVS
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+Please use the install.txt files in docs/gtk, docs/msw, docs/motif, docs/mac
+etc. alongside these instructions.
+
I) Windows using plain makefiles
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-> type: make -f makefile.g95 (if using GNU tools)
or type: nmake -f makefile.vc (if using MS VC++)
+d) Borland (including free command line tools)
+ Download tools from http://www.borland.com/downloads/
+
+ See docs/msw/install.txt for details; in brief
+
+-> type set WXWIN=c:\wxwindows
+-> type cd %WXWIN%\src\msw
+-> type make -f makefile.b32
II) Unix ports
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Of course, you can also build the library using plain makefiles (see
section I).
-V) MacOS
+IV) Classic MacOS using CodeWarrior (eg MacOS 8.x/9.x)
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+
+Refer to the readme.txt and install.txt files in docs/mac to build
+wxWindows under Classic Mac OS using CodeWarrior.
+
+If you are checking out the CVS sources using cvs under Mac OS X and
+compiling under Classic Mac OS:
+
+- make sure that all text files have a Mac OS type of 'TEXT' otherwise
+ CodeWarrior may ignore them. Checking out the CVS sources using cvs
+ under Mac OS X creates untyped files which can lead to compilation
+ errors under CodeWarrior which are hard to track down.
+
+- convert the xml files to CodeWarrior binary projects using the supplied
+ AppleScript in docs/mac (M5xml2mcp.applescript for CodeWarrior 5.3)
+
+V) MacOS X using configure and the Developer Tools
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+You need to have the Developer Tools installed. If this is not the case,
+you will need to register at the Apple Developer web site (this is a free
+registration) in order to download the Developer Tools installer.
+
+In order to create configure, you need to have the
+GNU autoconf package (version 2.13 or 2.14) installed
+on your system and type run "autoconf" in the base
+directory (or run the autogen.sh script in the same
+directory, which just calls autoconf).
+
+-> type: mkdir macbuild
+-> type: cd macbuild
+-> type: ../configure --with-mac
+or type: ../configure
+-> type: make
+
VI) OS/2
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First you'll need a cross-compiler; linux glibc binaries of mingw32 and
cygwin32 (both based on egcs) can be found at
-ftp://ftp.objsw.com/pub/crossgcc/linux-x-win32. Otherwise you can
-compile one yourself. Check the relevant FAQs.
+ftp://ftp.objsw.com/pub/crossgcc/linux-x-win32. Alternative binaries,
+based on the latest MinGW release can be found at
+http://members.telering.at/jessich/mingw/mingwcross/mingw_cross.html
+Otherwise you can compile one yourself.
[ A Note about cygwin32 and mingw32: the main difference is that cygwin32
binaries are always linked against cygwin.dll. This dll encapsulates most
-> cd win32
(or whatever you called it)
Now run configure. There are two ways to do this
--> ../configure --host=i586-mingw32 --build=i586-linux --with-mingw \
- --enable-dnd=no --without-odbc
+-> ../configure --host=i586-mingw32 --build=i586-linux --with-mingw
where --build= should read whatever platform you're building on. Configure
will notice that build and host platforms differ, and automatically prepend
i586-mingw32- to gcc, ar, ld, etc (make sure they're in the PATH!).
yourself:
-> CC=i586-mingw32-gcc CXX=i586-mingw32-g++ RANLIB=i586-mingw32-ranlib \
DLLTOOL=i586-mingw32-dlltool LD=i586-mingw32-ld NM=i586-mingw32-nm \
- ../configure --host=i586-mingw32 --with-mingw --enable-dnd=no
+ ../configure --host=i586-mingw32 --with-mingw
(all assuming you're using mingw32)
-Drag'n'drop is disabled because mingw32 lacks (AFAIK) OLE headers.
-
-[ Update: some new mingw32 versions now have a new set of windows header
-files, which apparently can handle ole. Untested at the moment ]
-
-ODBC files don't compile as of 13.10.99 - may be this will be fixed by the
-moment you're reading these lines.
-
-Configure will conclude that shared libraries are out of the question and
-opt for a static one. I haven't looked into DLL creation yet.
+By default this will compile a DLL, if you want a static library,
+specify --disable-shared.
Type
-> make
and wait, wait, wait. Don't leave the room, because the minute you do there
will be a compile error :-)
-NB: you risk to get quite a few warnings about "ANSI C++ forbids implicit
- conversion from 'void *'" in all places where va_arg macro is used. This
- is due to a bug in (some versions of) mingw32 headers which may be
- corrected by editing the file
+NB: if you are using a very old compiler you risk to get quite a few warnings
+ about "ANSI C++ forbids implicit conversion from 'void *'" in all places
+ where va_arg macro is used. This is due to a bug in (some versions of)
+ mingw32 headers which may be corrected by upgrading your compier,
+ otherwise you might edit the file
${install_prefix}/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mingw32/egcs-2.91.57/include/stdarg.h
and adding "|| defined(_WIN32)" to the list of platforms on which
__gnuc_va_list is char *.
-If this is successful, you end up with a libwx_msw.a in win32/lib. Now try
-building the minimal sample:
+If this is successful, you end up with a wx23_2.dll/libwx23_2.a in win32/lib
+( or just libwx_msw.a if you opted for a static build ).
+Now try building the minimal sample:
-> cd samples/minimal
-> make
- resource compiling must be done manually for now (should/can we link the
default wx resources into libwx_msw.a?) [ No we can't; the linker won't
link it in... you have to supply an object file ]
-- dynamic libraries
- static executables are HUGE -- there must be room for improvement.