Update CRT environment in wxSetEnv() for MinGW too.

[wxWidgets.git] / docs / base / readme.txt

diff --git a/docs/base/readme.txt b/docs/base/readme.txt
index c6e654e0f6e45b8fa8abffdb34cca34402f81c9b..8e39d30598009c93d98562497aefa9b60856826b 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/base/readme.txt
+++ b/docs/base/readme.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
                                 =============
 
 NB: this file applies to wxBase library only. If you are using a GUI version
-    of wxWindows, please refer to the documentation in the appropriate
+    of wxWidgets, please refer to the documentation in the appropriate
     subdirectory (msw, gtk, motif &c).
 
 
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ NB: this file applies to wxBase library only. If you are using a GUI version
 0. Introduction
 ---------------
 
- wxBase is the library providing most of the non-GUI classes of the wxWindows
+ wxBase is the library providing most of the non-GUI classes of the wxWidgets
 cross-platform C++ framework. wxBase has some generic classes such as yet
 another C++ string class, typesafe dynamic arrays, hashes and lists and, more
 excitingly, wxDateTime -- a very flexible and powerful class for manipulating
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ or Unicode mode for a total of 8 possibilities.
 
 a) Using Visual C++ 6.0
 
-   Simply open the src/wxBase.dsw file in MSDEV and build it. When it is
+   Simply open the build/msw/wx_base.dsp file in MSDEV and build it. When it is
 done you can also open samples/console/console.dsp project and build it as
 well.
 
@@ -59,10 +59,14 @@ b) Cygwin
 
    Please refer to the Unix section below.
 
+   Note that gcc's precompiled headers do not work on current versions of
+   Cygwin. If your version of Cygwin is affected you will need to use the
+   --disable-precomp-headers configure option.
+
 c) Borland
 
    Please refer to the docs/msw/install.txt. The console sample compiles and
-   runs but does not pass all tests (04 sept 02)
+   runs but does not pass all tests.
 
 d) Watcom
 
@@ -87,19 +91,15 @@ compiler you use.
 3. Installing under Unix/BeOS
 -----------------------------
 
-NB: If you're building wxBase from the wxWindows distribution and not from a
-    separate wxBase one you will need to add "--disable-gui" to configure
-    arguments below!
-
 Please note that GNU make may be required to build wxBase, please use it if
 you get any errors from the native Unix make.
 
 The recommended way to build wxBase is:
 
-        % cd ..../wxWindows
+        % cd ..../wxWidgets
         % mkdir base-release # or any other directory of your liking
         % cd base-release
-        % ../configure
+        % ../configure --disable-gui
         # ignore the error messages about missing samples
         % make
         % make install
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ You can also do:
 
         % mkdir base-debug
         % cd base-debug
-        % ../configure --enable-debug
+        % ../configure --disable-gui --enable-debug
         % make
 
 To build the sample then cd to samples/console and make there.
@@ -121,24 +121,19 @@ To build the sample then cd to samples/console and make there.
 wxBase classes. It doesn't do anything useful per itself but you may want to
 look at its code to see examples of usage of the class you are interested in.
 
- There is no separate documentation for wxBase, please refer to wxWindows
+ There is no separate documentation for wxBase, please refer to wxWidgets
 documentation instead.
 
- Support for wxBase is available from the same places as for wxWindows itself,
+ Support for wxBase is available from the same places as for wxWidgets itself,
 namely:
 
 * Usenet newsgroup comp.soft-sys.wxwindows
 
-* Mailing lists: see http://lists.wxwindows.org/ for more information
+* Mailing lists: see http://lists.wxwidgets.org/ for more information
 
-* WWW page: http://www.wxwindows.org/
+* WWW page: http://www.wxwidgets.org/
 
 
  Hope you will find wxBase useful!
 
                                                                  Vadim Zeitlin
-
-
-This file is accurate for the version 2.5.0 of wxBase. It was last modified on
-Jan 22, 2003.
-