X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/79199066607f22baf93d221d8ede40a10474b2c5..2c375f42cfd1d71e4c2cbb35f729f7a056d76787:/BuildCVS.txt diff --git a/BuildCVS.txt b/BuildCVS.txt index 11b707701d..1e85521ae4 100644 --- a/BuildCVS.txt +++ b/BuildCVS.txt @@ -2,6 +2,9 @@ How to build the sources from CVS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ +Please use the install.txt files in docs/gtk, docs/msw, docs/motif, docs/mac +etc. alongside these instructions. + I) Windows using plain makefiles ---------------------------------------- @@ -9,65 +12,71 @@ a) If using Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 or 6.0 Ensure that the command-line compiler and tools (including nmake) are installed and ready to run. Depending on your -installation there may be a batch file (named something like -VCVARS32.BAT) that needs to be run to set correct environment -varaibles and PATH entries. +installation there may be a batch file (commonly named VCVARS32.BAT) +that needs to be run to set correct environment variables and PATH entries. Continue with item c) below. -b) If using the GNU Mingw32 or GNU Cygwin32 compilers +b) If using the MinGW or Cygwin compilers + +You can get MinGW from http://www.mingw.org/ -You can get Mingw32 from http://www.mingw.org +Cygwin is available at http://www.cygwin.com/ -Cygwin32 is available at http://www.cygwin.com +If you are using Cygwin or MinGW together with the MSYS environment, you +can build the library using configure (see "Unix ports" and +"Windows using configure" below). You can also +build wxWidgets without configure using native makefile, but only with +MinGW. Using Cygwin together with Windows makefile is no longer supported. -The makefile might have small problems with Cygwin's tools -so it is recommended to use Mingw32 and its toolchain instead -if possible. +If building with MinGW without configure: -> Set your path so that it includes the directory where your compiler and tools reside --> If your are using an old Mingw32 version (gcc-2.95 or older), - you might need to fix some headers with the patches contained - in the wxWin\Mingw32-gcc295.patches file. PLEASE APPLY THESE - PATCHES BY HAND! There are apparently a few different versions - of the headers floating around. Note that these patches are - not needed if you are using Mingw32 gcc-2.95.2 or newer. - --> Edit wx/src/makeg95.env and set the MINGW32 variable at the top of - the file to either 1 (you have Mingw32) or 0 (you have Cygwin32). - If using MINGW32, also set the MINGW32VERSION variable - appropiately. +-> Make sure you have GNU Make installed. It must be Windows native version. + Download it from http://www.mingw.org, the executable will be called + mingw32-make.exe. + +-> Modern version of MinGW is required; preferably MinGW 2.0 (with gcc3), + but MinGW with gcc-2.95.3 will suffice. If you are using 2.95, you will + have to change variable GCC_VERSION in config.gcc (see msw/install.txt + for details). + +If using configure, Unix instructions apply. c) Build instructions --> Assumming that you installed the wxWindows sources - into c:\wxWin --> Copy c:\wxWin\include\wx\msw\setup0.h - to c:\wxWin\include\wx\msw\setup.h --> Edit c:\wxWin\include\wx\msw\setup.h so that - most features are enabled (i.e. defined to 1), for example: - #define wxUSE_ODBC 0 - #define wxUSE_SOCKETS 1 - #define wxUSE_HTML 1 - #define wxUSE_THREADS 1 - #define wxUSE_FS_INET 0 - #define wxUSE_FS_ZIP 1 - #define wxUSE_BUSYINFO 1 - #define wxUSE_DYNLIB_CLASS 1 - #define wxUSE_ZIPSTREAM 1 - #define wxUSE_LIBJPEG 1 - #define wxUSE_LIBPNG 1 +Assumming that you installed the wxWidgets sources +into c:\wxWidgets: + +-> Copy c:\wxWidgets\include\wx\msw\setup0.h + to c:\wxWidgets\include\wx\msw\setup.h +-> Edit c:\wxWidgets\include\wx\msw\setup.h to choose + the features you would like to compile wxWidgets with[out]. and std iostreams are disabled with #define wxUSE_STD_IOSTREAM 0 --> type: cd c:\wxWin\src\msw --> type: make -f makefile.g95 (if using GNU tools) +-> type: cd c:\wxWidgets\build\msw +-> type: make -f makefile.gcc (if using GNU tools) or type: nmake -f makefile.vc (if using MS VC++) +etc. + + See also docs/msw/install.txt for additional compilation options. + +d) Borland (including free command line tools) + Download tools from http://www.borland.com/downloads/ + + See docs/msw/install.txt for details; in brief: + +-> type cd c:\wxWidgets\build\msw +-> type make -f makefile.bcc + +You can customize many things in the build process, detailed description is +in docs/msw/install.txt. II) Unix ports @@ -79,15 +88,16 @@ that works without libtool and automake, using only configure to create what is needed. In order to create configure, you need to have the -GNU autoconf package (version 2.13 or 2.14) installed +GNU autoconf package (version > 2.54) installed on your system and type run "autoconf" in the base directory (or run the autogen.sh script in the same -directory, which just calls autoconf). +directory, which just calls autoconf). Note that you usually don't +need to do this because configure is included in CVS. Set WXWIN environment variable to the base directory such -as ~/wxWindows (this is actually not really needed). +as ~/wxWidgets (this is actually not really needed). --> type: export WXWIN=~/wxWindows +-> type: export WXWIN=~/wxWidgets -> type: md mybuild -> type: cd mybuild -> type: ../configure --with-motif @@ -106,11 +116,10 @@ yet complete). III) Windows using configure ---------------------------------------- -Take a look at Unix->Windows cross compiling. With minor -modifications, this should work in Windows if you've got the cygnus -utilities (bash, GNU make, etc) and either mingw32 or cygwin32 installed. -See http://www.cygnus.com for these programs, or go straight to their -ftp server at ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/cygwin/. +wxWidgets can be built on Windows using MSYS (see +http://www.mingw.org/), which is a POSIX build environment +for Windows. With MSYS you can just ./configure && make (see also VII, +Unix->Windows cross-compiling using configure). Of course, you can also build the library using plain makefiles (see section I). @@ -119,14 +128,18 @@ IV) Classic MacOS using CodeWarrior (eg MacOS 8.x/9.x) ---------------------------------------- Refer to the readme.txt and install.txt files in docs/mac to build -wxWindows under Classic Mac OS using CodeWarrior. +wxWidgets under Classic Mac OS using CodeWarrior. If you are checking out the CVS sources using cvs under Mac OS X and -compiling under Classic Mac OS, make sure that all text files have a -Mac OS type of 'TEXT' otherwise CodeWarrior may ignore them. Checking -out the CVS sources using cvs under Mac OS X creates untyped files -which can lead to compialtion errors under CodeWarrior which are hard -to track down. +compiling under Classic Mac OS: + +- make sure that all text files have a Mac OS type of 'TEXT' otherwise + CodeWarrior may ignore them. Checking out the CVS sources using cvs + under Mac OS X creates untyped files which can lead to compilation + errors under CodeWarrior which are hard to track down. + +- convert the xml files to CodeWarrior binary projects using the supplied + AppleScript in docs/mac (M5xml2mcp.applescript for CodeWarrior 5.3) V) MacOS X using configure and the Developer Tools ---------------------------------------- @@ -136,7 +149,7 @@ you will need to register at the Apple Developer web site (this is a free registration) in order to download the Developer Tools installer. In order to create configure, you need to have the -GNU autoconf package (version 2.13 or 2.14) installed +GNU autoconf package (version >= 2.54) installed on your system and type run "autoconf" in the base directory (or run the autogen.sh script in the same directory, which just calls autoconf). @@ -149,26 +162,29 @@ or type: ../configure VI) OS/2 ---------------------------------------- +No notes. VII) Unix->Windows cross-compiling using configure -------------------------------------------------- -First you'll need a cross-compiler; linux glibc binaries of mingw32 and -cygwin32 (both based on egcs) can be found at -ftp://ftp.objsw.com/pub/crossgcc/linux-x-win32. Otherwise you can -compile one yourself. Check the relevant FAQs. +First you'll need a cross-compiler; linux glibc binaries of MinGW and +Cygwin (both based on egcs) can be found at +ftp://ftp.objsw.com/pub/crossgcc/linux-x-win32. Alternative binaries, +based on the latest MinGW release can be found at +http://members.telering.at/jessich/mingw/mingwcross/mingw_cross.html +Otherwise you can compile one yourself. -[ A Note about cygwin32 and mingw32: the main difference is that cygwin32 +[ A Note about Cygwin and MinGW: the main difference is that Cygwin binaries are always linked against cygwin.dll. This dll encapsulates most standard Unix C extensions, which is very handy if you're porting unix -software to windows. However, wxMSW doesn't need this, so mingw32 is +software to windows. However, wxMSW doesn't need this, so MinGW is preferable if you write portable C(++). ] You might want to build both Unix and Windows binaries in the same source tree; to do this make subdirs for each e.g. unix and win32. If you've -already build wxWindows in the main dir, do a 'make distclean' there, +already build wxWidgets in the main dir, do a 'make distclean' there, otherwise configure will get confused. (In any case, read the section 'Unix -using configure' and make sure you're able to build a native wxWindows +using configure' and make sure you're able to build a native wxWidgets library; cross-compiling errors can be pretty obscure and you'll want to be sure that your configure setup is basically sound.) @@ -176,8 +192,7 @@ To cross compile the windows library, do -> cd win32 (or whatever you called it) Now run configure. There are two ways to do this --> ../configure --host=i586-mingw32 --build=i586-linux --with-mingw \ - --enable-dnd=no --without-odbc +-> ../configure --host=i586-mingw32 --build=i586-linux --with-mingw where --build= should read whatever platform you're building on. Configure will notice that build and host platforms differ, and automatically prepend i586-mingw32- to gcc, ar, ld, etc (make sure they're in the PATH!). @@ -185,29 +200,22 @@ The other way to run configure is by specifying the names of the binaries yourself: -> CC=i586-mingw32-gcc CXX=i586-mingw32-g++ RANLIB=i586-mingw32-ranlib \ DLLTOOL=i586-mingw32-dlltool LD=i586-mingw32-ld NM=i586-mingw32-nm \ - ../configure --host=i586-mingw32 --with-mingw --enable-dnd=no - -(all assuming you're using mingw32) -Drag'n'drop is disabled because mingw32 lacks (AFAIK) OLE headers. - -[ Update: some new mingw32 versions now have a new set of windows header -files, which apparently can handle ole. Untested at the moment ] - -ODBC files don't compile as of 13.10.99 - may be this will be fixed by the -moment you're reading these lines. + ../configure --host=i586-mingw32 --with-mingw -Configure will conclude that shared libraries are out of the question and -opt for a static one. I haven't looked into DLL creation yet. +(all assuming you're using MinGW) +By default this will compile a DLL, if you want a static library, +specify --disable-shared. Type -> make and wait, wait, wait. Don't leave the room, because the minute you do there will be a compile error :-) -NB: you risk to get quite a few warnings about "ANSI C++ forbids implicit - conversion from 'void *'" in all places where va_arg macro is used. This - is due to a bug in (some versions of) mingw32 headers which may be - corrected by editing the file +NB: if you are using a very old compiler you risk to get quite a few warnings + about "ANSI C++ forbids implicit conversion from 'void *'" in all places + where va_arg macro is used. This is due to a bug in (some versions of) + MinGW headers which may be corrected by upgrading your compier, + otherwise you might edit the file ${install_prefix}/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mingw32/egcs-2.91.57/include/stdarg.h @@ -228,8 +236,9 @@ typedef void *__gnuc_va_list; and adding "|| defined(_WIN32)" to the list of platforms on which __gnuc_va_list is char *. -If this is successful, you end up with a libwx_msw.a in win32/lib. Now try -building the minimal sample: +If this is successful, you end up with a wx23_2.dll/libwx23_2.a in win32/lib +(or just libwx_msw.a if you opted for a static build). +Now try building the minimal sample: -> cd samples/minimal -> make @@ -249,6 +258,5 @@ Cross-compiling TODO: - resource compiling must be done manually for now (should/can we link the default wx resources into libwx_msw.a?) [ No we can't; the linker won't link it in... you have to supply an object file ] -- dynamic libraries - static executables are HUGE -- there must be room for improvement.