X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/4a9dba0e561d2485d9235eab7b51aac8729f1b10..65baafba0e8cd74f2264b7e2f7625ff5bea84864:/docs/os2/install.txt diff --git a/docs/os2/install.txt b/docs/os2/install.txt index e5bcf0c27d..245c212c61 100644 --- a/docs/os2/install.txt +++ b/docs/os2/install.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ -Installing wxWindows 2.5.0 +Installing wxWidgets 2.6.2 -------------------------- -This is wxWindows 2.5.0 for IBM OS/2 Warp3 and Warp4. This is an unstable +This is wxWidgets 2.6.2 for IBM OS/2 Warp3 and Warp4. This is an unstable development release and OS/2 is considered to be in beta. IMPORTANT NOTE: If you experience problems installing, please @@ -9,18 +9,18 @@ re-read this instructions and other related files (changes.txt, readme.txt, notes on the Web site) carefully before mailing wx-users or the author. Preferably, try to fix the problem first and then send a patch to the author. Please report bugs using the -bug report form on the wxWindows web site. +bug report form on the wxWidgets web site. Unarchiving ----------- At this time there is no comprehensive setup.exe type installation program. -wxWindows for OS/2 requires you download various .zip files and unpack them +wxWidgets for OS/2 requires you download various .zip files and unpack them to your desired location on your system. Pick a location say, -C:\wx\wxWindows-2.5.0, copy the .zip files to there and unzip them ensuring you +C:\wx\wxWidgets-2.6.2, copy the .zip files to there and unzip them ensuring you unzip the subdirectories as well. You will need: -- All common, generic and OS2-specific wxWindows source; +- All common, generic and OS2-specific wxWidgets source; - samples; - documentation in HTML Help format; - makefiles for VisualAge V3.0 (possibly for EMX and Watcom C++); @@ -30,10 +30,10 @@ unzip the subdirectories as well. You will need: - PNG library source; - ZLIB library source; -All but the documentation is included in wxOS2-2.5.0.zip, documentation -must be downloaded separately from the wxWindows Web site. +All but the documentation is included in wxOS2-2.6.2.zip, documentation +must be downloaded separately from the wxWidgets Web site. -Other add-on packages are available from the wxWindows Web site, such as: +Other add-on packages are available from the wxWidgets Web site, such as: - mmedia.zip. Audio, CD, video access for Windows and Linux. - ogl3.zip. Object Graphics Library: build network diagrams, CASE tools etc. @@ -46,27 +46,27 @@ General installation notes After unzipping everything your directory tree should look something like this: -x:\wx\wxWindows-2.5.0\docs (your HTML reference manual) -x:\wx\wxWindows-2.5.0\include\wx -x:\wx\wxWindows-2.5.0\include\wx\generic -x:\wx\wxWindows-2.5.0\include\wx\html -x:\wx\wxWindows-2.5.0\include\wx\os2 -x:\wx\wxWindows-2.5.0\samples\.... (all the sample directories) -x:\wx\wxWindows-2.5.0\src -x:\wx\wxWindows-2.5.0\src\common -x:\wx\wxWindows-2.5.0\src\generic -x:\wx\wxWindows-2.5.0\src\html -x:\wx\wxWindows-2.5.0\src\jpeg -x:\wx\wxWindows-2.5.0\src\os2 -x:\wx\wxWindows-2.5.0\src\png -x:\wx\wxWindows-2.5.0\src\tiff -x:\wx\wxWindows-2.5.0\src\zlib +x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.6.2\docs (your HTML reference manual) +x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.6.2\include\wx +x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.6.2\include\wx\generic +x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.6.2\include\wx\html +x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.6.2\include\wx\os2 +x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.6.2\samples\.... (all the sample directories) +x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.6.2\src +x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.6.2\src\common +x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.6.2\src\generic +x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.6.2\src\html +x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.6.2\src\jpeg +x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.6.2\src\os2 +x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.6.2\src\png +x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.6.2\src\tiff +x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.6.2\src\zlib If you are using VisualAge, you will also need to ensure you have a -\lib directory as well, x:\wx\wxWindows-2.5.0\lib +\lib directory as well, x:\wx\wxWidgets-2.6.2\lib and you will have to set a WXWIN environment variable in your config.sys, -SET WXWIN=X:\WX\WXWINDOWS-2.5.0; +SET WXWIN=X:\WX\WXWINDOWS-2.6.2; Compilation ----------- @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ Compilation with VisualAge -------------------------- In addition to VisualAge V3.0 Fixpack 8 you will need the following inorder -to successfully build and use wxWindows for OS/2: +to successfully build and use wxWidgets for OS/2: 1. IBM OS/2 Toolkit Version 4.5 or later 2. IBM TCPIP V4.0 or later @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ I find the following to be the easiest to reconstruct the .def file. Open both the wx23.def and the temp.def file. Copy the header of the wx23.def to the clipboard and paste it into the top of the temp.def file. If you have a valid SQL database client with its SDK on your system you can skip the next -step. wxWindows included some ODBC and SQL modules. They expect the standard +step. wxWidgets included some ODBC and SQL modules. They expect the standard sql.h and such to available. If you do not have a database client with its SDK (such as DB/2) then for the .dll build you need to delete the exports for the following three modules from your temp.def file, db.cpp, dbgrid.cpp and @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ When building an application that uses the wx.dll you need to build it using the WXUSINGDLL=1 macro. For example to build the minimal sample you would go to \samples\minimal and execute nmake all -f makefile.va WXUSINGDLL=1. -I strongly suggest when developing apps using wxWindows for OS/2 under old +I strongly suggest when developing apps using wxWidgets for OS/2 under old VisualAge 3.0, that you use the dynamically linked library. The library is very large and even the most trivial statically linked .exe can be very large and take a long time to link. The release builds are much smaller, @@ -171,26 +171,27 @@ and you should be mostly fine. The first thing to do is to decide on a build directory. You can either do in-tree builds or you can do the build in a directory separated from the source directory. The later has the advantage, that it is much easier -to compile and maintain several ports of wxWindows on OS/2 - if you are +to compile and maintain several ports of wxWidgets on OS/2 - if you are developping cross-platform applications you might want to compile (and update) e.g. wxGTK or wxX11 as well. In the following, let's assume you decided to build in -\wx\wxWindows-2.5.0\build\pm. Now we need to set some environment -variables, namely MAKE_SHELL (to a Unix like shell, let's assume ash) +\wx\wxWidgets-2.6.2\build\pm. Now we need to set some environment +variables, namely MAKESHELL (to a Unix like shell, let's assume ash) and INSTALL (to point to the install script. If you omit this, configure might find something like the system's tcpip\pcomos\install.exe which will not do the thing you want), e.g. -SET MAKE_SHELL=ash -SET INSTALL=/wx/wxWindows-2.5.0/install-sh. +SET MAKESHELL=ash +SET INSTALL=/wx/wxWidgets-2.6.2/install-sh -c -Be warned that depending on the precise version of your make, setting -MAKE_SHELL might not be sufficient, it might be necessary to set SHELL -and even COMSPEC to a unix like shell as well. +Be warned that depending on the precise version of your make, the +variable that needs to be set might be MAKE_SHELL instead of MAKESHELL. +If you have a really deficient version of GNU make, it might even be +necessary to set SHELL or even COMSPEC to a unix like shell as well. Now run the provided configure script by executing e.g. `ash -c "../../configure \ - --prefix=directory_where_you_want_wxWindows_to_be_installed"' + --prefix=directory_where_you_want_wxWidgets_to_be_installed"' from within the build directory (the relative path might be different depending on the build directory you selected). If you are already running some unix-like shell and not cmd, you may @@ -201,32 +202,20 @@ directories which each essentially contain a suitable makefile. Calling `make' now should start a compile run which hopefully ends with a library being placed in the lib subdirectory. -Note however, that the auto-generated .d files (containing depency -information) use a mixture of "/" and "\" path separators, that -confuses many make versions. Therefore you'll often get error messages -indicating that some file with a random character in place of a path -separator cannot be found on subsequent calls to make. The only solution -currently available for this requires "sed": Run - for %1 in (*.d) do @(sed "s/\//\\/g" < %1 > dep.sed && copy dep.sed %1) -under "cmd" in the build directory (or a suitable variant of it under a -unix like shell). Note however, that a new call to make will generate -new .d files, so you will likely have to run that between any two calls -to make. - Now you can change in the samples subdirectory and call make to compile all samples, however currently not all will work on OS/2, so you might prefer to change into the directory of a specific sample (e.g. samples\minimal) and call make there to just build this one example. Essentially, each sample that's not working indicates an area, where help -in porting wxWindows to OS/2 would be appreciated. +in porting wxWidgets to OS/2 would be appreciated. -Finally, you can run `make install' which should install wxWindows to +Finally, you can run `make install' which should install wxWidgets to the desired place. Note that we also install the wx-config script which wants to help you compiling your own applications, e.g. `wx-config --cxxflags` will emit the -flags that are needed for compiling source code which includes wxWindows +flags that are needed for compiling source code which includes wxWidgets headers, `wx-config --libs` will emit the flags needed for linking against -wxWindows (wx-config is assuming you are calling it from a unix-like shell!). +wxWidgets (wx-config is assuming you are calling it from a unix-like shell!). For building a DLL, the only supported way currently is to first build the static library and then use Andrew Zabolotny's dllar.cmd. However, this @@ -236,7 +225,7 @@ Finally, if you also want to build a different port, e.g. wxGTK, you essentially have to use the procedure described above, the only difference being that you have to pass a switch to configure indicating which port to build. If you do not do this in a separate build directory (e.g. -\wxWindows-2.5.0\build\gtk), you'll have to do a `make clean' first. +\wxWidgets-2.6.2\build\gtk), you'll have to do a `make clean' first. The magical switches that have to be passed to configure for the various ports are --with-gtk (wxGTK), --with-motif (wxMotif), --with-x11 (wxX11), and --disable-gui (wxBase). Note that contrary to the native, PM based