X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/2e5aa9c48d73e1302040bee59e4f41197f33b8ee..d0ee33f5c6908b4ac5e1364381f0ef00942e3936:/wxPython/docs/BUILD.txt diff --git a/wxPython/docs/BUILD.txt b/wxPython/docs/BUILD.txt index 8b1abf3bbb..a65dfc43ca 100644 --- a/wxPython/docs/BUILD.txt +++ b/wxPython/docs/BUILD.txt @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ -Building wxPython 2.5 for Development and Testing +Building wxPython 2.6 for Development and Testing ================================================= This file describes how I build wxWidgets and wxPython while doing development and testing, and is meant to help other people that want to do the same thing. I'll assume that you are using either a CVS snapshot from http://wxWidgets.org/snapshots/, a checkout from CVS, or -one of the released wxPython-src-2.5.* tarballs. I'll also assume that +one of the released wxPython-src-2.6.* tarballs. I'll also assume that you know your way around your system, the compiler, etc. and most importantly, that you know what you are doing! ;-) @@ -74,8 +74,9 @@ place, then do the same for wxPython. cd $WXDIR mkdir bld cd bld - ../configure --prefix=/opt/wx/2.5 \ + ../configure --prefix=/opt/wx/2.6 \ --with-gtk \ + --with-gnomeprint \ --with-opengl \ --enable-debug \ --enable-geometry \ @@ -85,7 +86,7 @@ place, then do the same for wxPython. On OS X of course you'll want to use --with-mac instead of - --with-gtk. + --with-gtk and --with-gnomeprint. **NOTE**: Due to a recent change there is currently a dependency problem in the multilib builds of wxWidgets on OSX, so I have @@ -97,11 +98,11 @@ place, then do the same for wxPython. --enable-monolithic \ - By default GTK2 will be selected if its development pacakge is - installed on your build system. To force the use of GTK 1.2.x - instead add this flag:: + By default GTK 2.x will be used for the build. If you would rather + use GTK 1.2.x for some reason then you can force configure to use + it by changing the --with-gtk flag to specify it like this:: - --disable-gtk2 \ + --with-gtk=1 \ To make the wxWidgets build be unicode enabled (strongly recommended if you are building with GTK2) then add the following. @@ -112,14 +113,14 @@ place, then do the same for wxPython. --enable-unicode \ - Notice that I used a prefix of /opt/wx/2.5. You can use whatever + Notice that I used a prefix of /opt/wx/2.6. You can use whatever path you want, such as a path in your HOME dir or even one of the standard prefix paths such as /usr or /usr/local if you like, but using /opt this way lets me easily have multiple versions and ports of wxWidgets "installed" and makes it easy to switch between them, without impacting any versions of wxWidgets that may have been installed via an RPM or whatever. For the rest of the steps below - be sure to also substitute "/opt/wx/2.5" with whatever prefix you + be sure to also substitute "/opt/wx/2.6" with whatever prefix you choose for your build. If you want to use the image and zlib libraries included with @@ -152,9 +153,9 @@ place, then do the same for wxPython. .make install When it's done you should have an installed set of files under - /opt/wx/2.5 containing just wxWidgets. Now to use this version of - wxWidgets you just need to add /opt/wx/2.5/bin to the PATH and set - LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH on OS X) to /opt/wx/2.5/lib. + /opt/wx/2.6 containing just wxWidgets. Now to use this version of + wxWidgets you just need to add /opt/wx/2.6/bin to the PATH and set + LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH on OS X) to /opt/wx/2.6/lib. 3. I also have a script to help me build wxPython and it is checked in @@ -187,7 +188,7 @@ place, then do the same for wxPython. other version of it found first, then you can add this to the command line to ensure your new one is used instead:: - WX_CONFIG=/opt/wx/2.5/bin/wx-config + WX_CONFIG=/opt/wx/2.6/bin/wx-config By default setup.py will assume that you built wxWidgets to use GTK2. If you built wxWidgets to use GTK 1.2.x then you should add @@ -222,7 +223,7 @@ place, then do the same for wxPython. PYTHONPATH to the wxPython dir located in the source tree. For example:: - export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/wx/2.5/lib + export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/wx/2.6/lib export PYTHONPATH=$WXDIR/wxPython cd $WXDIR/wxPython/demo python2.3 demo.py @@ -239,7 +240,7 @@ place, then do the same for wxPython. SOLARIS NOTE: If you get unresolved symbol errors when importing wxPython and you are running on Solaris and building with gcc, then you may be able to work around the problem by uncommenting a bit of - code in setup.py and building again. Look for 'SunOS' in setup.py + code in config.py and building again. Look for 'SunOS' in config.py and uncomment the block containing it. The problem is that Sun's ld does not automatically add libgcc to the link step.