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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).
0. Introduction
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- 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
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.
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
3. Installing under Unix/BeOS
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-NB: If you're building wxBase from the wxWindows distribution and not from a
+NB: If you're building wxBase from the wxWidgets distribution and not from a
separate wxBase one you will need to add "--disable-gui" to configure
arguments below!
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
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
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-This file is accurate for the version 2.5.0 of wxBase. It was last modified on
-Jan 22, 2003.
-