X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/4e4cea52b3fde0133dd3ab7049ec83996025799c..c8c77ee2af68bcea8ba157b4d5a4e2cd5b4912bd:/docs/motif/install.txt diff --git a/docs/motif/install.txt b/docs/motif/install.txt index c55be4714f..2625218853 100644 --- a/docs/motif/install.txt +++ b/docs/motif/install.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -wxWidgets 2.5 for Motif installation ------------------------------------- +wxWidgets for Motif installation +-------------------------------- IMPORTANT NOTE: @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ IMPORTANT NOTE: When sending bug reports tell us what version of wxWidgets you are using (including the beta) and what compiler on what system. One - example: wxMotif 2.5.4, gcc 2.95.4, Redhat 6.1 + example: wxMotif 2.8.1, gcc 2.95.4, Redhat 6.1 First steps ----------- @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ First steps Using configure is the only way to build the library. If it doesn't work for you for whatever reason, please report it (together with detailed information about your platform and the (relevant part of) contents of - config.log file) to wx-dev@lists.wxwindows.org. + config.log file) to wx-dev@lists.wxwidgets.org. COMPILING USING CONFIGURE @@ -79,10 +79,10 @@ such as for GTK and Motif, you can now build two complete libraries and use them concurrently. For this end, you have to create a directory for each build of wxWidgets - you may also want to create different versions of wxWidgets and test them concurrently. Most typically, this would be a version configured -with --enable-debug and one without. Note, that only one build can -currently be installed, so you'd have to use local version of the library for -that purpose. For building three versions (one GTK, one Motif and a debug -version of the GTK source) you'd do this: +with --enable-debug and one without. + +For building three versions (one GTK, one Motif and a debug version of the GTK +source) you'd do this: mkdir buildmotif cd buildmotif @@ -102,6 +102,9 @@ cd buildgtkd make cd .. +Note that since wxWidgets-2.6.0 you can install all those libraries +concurrently, you just need to pass the appropriate flags when using them. + * The simplest errors --------------------- @@ -180,9 +183,8 @@ was actually used by myself, newer version should cause no problems and even older ones are expected to work most of the time. You'll need OS/2 Warp (4.51) or eCS(1.0), X-Free86/2 (3.3.6 or newer), -Lesstif (0.92.7 or newer), emx (0.9d fix 4), flex (2.5.4), yacc (1.8) or -bison (1.25), a Unix like shell (pdksh-5.2.14 or ash), Autoconf (2.57), -GNU file utilities (3.13), GNU text utilities (1.19), +Lesstif (0.92.7 or newer), emx (0.9d fix 4), a Unix like shell (pdksh-5.2.14 +or ash), Autoconf (2.57), GNU file utilities (3.13), GNU text utilities (1.19), GNU shell utilites (1.12), m4 (1.4), sed (2.05), grep (2.0), Awk (3.0.3), GNU Make (3.75). @@ -191,15 +193,15 @@ LIBRARY_PATH set up accordingly, however, wxGTK will even work without it. Presence of Posix/2 will be auto-detected. Open an OS/2 prompt and switch to the directory above. -Set MAKESHELL (and depending on your installation also INSTALL, for me -it tends to try to use the system's tcpip\pcomos\install.exe which causes -problems...) to a Unix like shell, e.g. +Set MAKESHELL or MAKE_SHELL (which one is needed depends on the version of +make) to a Unix like shell, e.g. SET MAKESHELL=ash - -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. +Depending on your installation you might want to also set INSTALL, for me +it tends to try to use the system's tcpip\pcomos\install.exe which causes +problems, e.g. +SET INSTALL=/install-sh -c Notice that the delivered configure scripts are fully OS/2 aware, so you can simply run @@ -229,6 +231,20 @@ untested). The SGI native compiler support has only been tested on Irix 6.5. +* Building wxMotif on Cygwin +---------------------------- + +The normal build instructions should work fine on Cygwin. The one difference +with Cygwin is that when using the "--enable-shared" configure option (which +is the default) the API is exported explicitly using __declspec(dllexport) +rather than all global symbols being available. + +This shouldn't make a difference using the library and should be a little +more efficient. However if an export attribute has been missed somewhere you +will see linking errors. If this happens then you can work around the +problem by setting LDFLAGS=-Wl,--export-all-symbols. Please also let us know +about it on the wx-dev mailing list. + * Create your configuration --------------------------- @@ -280,19 +296,19 @@ The following options handle the kind of library you want to build. --disable-threads Compile without thread support. Threads support is also required for the - socket code to work. + socket code to work. --disable-shared Do not create shared libraries. - --enable-monolithic Build wxWidgets as single library instead - of as several smaller libraries (which is - the default since wxWidgets 2.5.0). + --enable-monolithic Build wxWidgets as single library instead + of as several smaller libraries (which is + the default since wxWidgets 2.5.0). --disable-optimise Do not optimise the code. Can sometimes be useful for debugging - and is required on some architectures - such as Sun with gcc 2.8.X which - would otherwise produce segvs. + and is required on some architectures + such as Sun with gcc 2.8.X which + would otherwise produce segvs. --enable-profile Add profiling info to the object files. Currently broken, I think. @@ -311,16 +327,16 @@ The following options handle the kind of library you want to build. --enable-no_deps Enable compilation without creation of dependency information. - --enable-permissive Enable compilation without checking for strict - ANSI conformance. Useful to prevent the build - dying with errors as soon as you compile with - Solaris' ANSI-defying headers. - + --enable-permissive Enable compilation without checking for strict + ANSI conformance. Useful to prevent the build + dying with errors as soon as you compile with + Solaris' ANSI-defying headers. + --enable-mem_tracing Add built-in memory tracing. - + --enable-dmalloc Use the dmalloc memory debugger. Read more at www.letters.com/dmalloc/ - + --enable-debug Equivalent to --enable-debug_info plus --enable-debug-flag. @@ -349,34 +365,34 @@ are not used in your program. The most relevant such features are --without-libpng Disables PNG image format code. - + --without-libjpeg Disables JPEG image format code. - + --without-odbc Disables ODBC code. - - --without-libtiff Disables TIFF image format code. - - --without-expat Disable XML classes based on Expat parser. - + + --without-libtiff Disables TIFF image format code. + + --without-expat Disable XML classes based on Expat parser. + --disable-threads Disables threads. Will also disable sockets. --disable-sockets Disables sockets. --disable-dnd Disables Drag'n'Drop. - + --disable-clipboard Disables Clipboard. - + --disable-streams Disables the wxStream classes. - + --disable-file Disables the wxFile class. - + --disable-textfile Disables the wxTextFile class. - + --disable-intl Disables the internationalisation. - + --disable-validators Disables validators. - + --disable-accel Disables accel. Apart from disabling certain features you can very often "strip" @@ -439,15 +455,12 @@ CXX = g++ minimal: minimal.o $(CXX) -o minimal minimal.o `wx-config --libs` -minimal.o: minimal.cpp mondrian.xpm +minimal.o: minimal.cpp $(CXX) `wx-config --cxxflags` -c minimal.cpp -o minimal.o clean: rm -f *.o minimal -This is certain to become the standard way unless we decide -to stick to tmake. - If your application uses only some of wxWidgets libraries, you can specify required libraries when running wx-config. For example, `wx-config --libs=html,core` will only output link command to link @@ -524,7 +537,7 @@ Bug reports Please send bug reports with a description of your environment, compiler and the error message(s) to the wxwin-developers mailing list at: - wx-dev@lists.wxwindows.org + wx-dev@lists.wxwidgets.org Julian Smart, Robert Roebling and Vadim Zeitlin, November 1999.