X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/3d82ef9b7c3e22a4353bcff774fda5bb43b473da..a96b4743ff1eb85279194a28f7c388dc5fcab648:/docs/msw/install.txt?ds=inline diff --git a/docs/msw/install.txt b/docs/msw/install.txt index fc8145efb0..c49c5e80ae 100644 --- a/docs/msw/install.txt +++ b/docs/msw/install.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ -Installing wxWindows 2.5.0 +Installing wxWindows 2.5.1 -------------------------- -This is wxWindows 2.5.0 for Microsoft Windows 9x/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000 +This is wxWindows 2.5.1 for Microsoft Windows 9x/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. This is an unstable development release. Note that unstable in this context doesn't mean that it crashes a lot, just that the library API may change in backwards incompatible way during the 2.5 branch lifetime. @@ -192,11 +192,11 @@ Compiling using the makefiles (updated 24 Sept 02): 1. Change directory to build\msw. Type 'make -f makefile.bcc' to make the wxWindows core library. Ignore the compiler warnings. - This produces a couple of libraries in the lib\bcc_mswdll directory. + This produces a couple of libraries in the lib\bcc_lib directory. 2. Change directory to a sample or demo such as samples\minimal, and type 'make -f makefile.bcc'. This produces a windows exe file - by default - in the bcc_mswdll subdirectory. + in the bcc_mswd subdirectory. Note (1): the wxWindows makefiles assume dword structure alignment. Please make sure that your own project or makefile settings use the @@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ Metrowerks CodeWarrior compilation ---------------------------------- 1. CodeWarrior Pro7 project files in XML format are already - included in wxMSW-2.5.0.zip and the setup version. + included in wxMSW-2.5.1.zip and the setup version. 2. Review the file include\wx\msw\setup.h (or include\wx\msw\setup0.h if you are working from the CVS version) to make sure the settings reflect @@ -320,7 +320,8 @@ Metrowerks CodeWarrior compilation sample/grid directory, calling it gridW7.mcp. Open newgridW7.mcp and revise the project by deleting the files minimal.rc and minimal.cpp and adding the files griddemo.rc and - griddemo.cpp. Build and run.... + griddemo.cpp. Build and run.... + Cygwin/MinGW compilation ------------------------ @@ -472,6 +473,7 @@ OLD VERSIONS: - If using GnuWin32 b18, you will need to copy windres.exe from e.g. the MinGW distribution, to a directory in your path. + Symantec & DigitalMars C++ compilation -------------------------------------- The DigitalMars compiler is a free succssor to the Symantec compiler @@ -479,16 +481,24 @@ and can be downloaded from http://www.digitalmars.com/ 1. You need to download and unzip in turn (later packages will overwrite older files) - Digital Mars C/C++ Compiler Version 8.34 + Digital Mars C/C++ Compiler Version 8.38 or later Basic utilities - from http://www.digitalmars.com/download/freecompiler.html [25 Aug 03, CE] + from http://www.digitalmars.com/download/freecompiler.html -2. Change directory to src\msw. Type 'make -f makefile.sc' to +2. Change directory to build\msw and type 'make -f makefile.dmc' to make the wxWindows core library. -3. Change directory to samples\minimal and type 'make -f makefile.sc' + +3. Change directory to samples\minimal and type 'make -f makefile.dmc' to make this sample. Most of the other samples also work. -4. Note that there is a compiler bug in verson 8.35 of the DM compiler which - prevents wxWindows from building. + + +Note that if you don't have the files makefile.dmc you may create them yourself +using bakefile tool according to the instructions in build\bakefiles\README: + + cd build\bakefiles + bakefile_gen -f dmars -b wx.bkl + bakefile_gen -f dmars -b ../../samples/minimal/minimal.bkl + 16-bit compilation is no longer supported. @@ -568,7 +578,7 @@ Advanced options ---------------- MONOLITHIC=1 - Starting with version 2.5.0, wxWindows has the ability to be built as + Starting with version 2.5.1, wxWindows has the ability to be built as several smaller libraries instead of single big one as used to be the case in 2.4 and older versions. This is called "multilib build" and is the default behaviour of makefiles. You can still build single library