X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/7d2681a303bc9160a0b4542cfbf711f9f998e64a..1e22656e8ed255f5ccfdb5c90957b96b1004df6b:/docs/tech/tn0016.txt diff --git a/docs/tech/tn0016.txt b/docs/tech/tn0016.txt index bb96ad0339..88fbebcf59 100644 --- a/docs/tech/tn0016.txt +++ b/docs/tech/tn0016.txt @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ - How to add new files and libraries to wxWindows build system + How to add new files and libraries to wxWidgets build system ============================================================ 1. Regenerating makefiles ------------------------- -wxWindows now uses Bakefile (http://bakefile.sourceforge.net) to generate +wxWidgets now uses Bakefile (http://bakefile.sourceforge.net) to generate native makefiles. You must have bakefile installed if you want to regenerate the makefiles. Bakefile currently runs on Unix and Windows systems. You will need Python >= 2.2 installed on Unix and either use Bakefile installer or have @@ -18,10 +18,10 @@ details. Note that it generates makefiles for samples and contrib libraries, too. -IMPORTANT NOTE: Don't forget to run autoconf in wxWindows root directory if - you changed any conditional variable or target condition - in .bkl files! You will know that this happened if - $(wx)/autoconf_inc.m4 content changed. +IMPORTANT NOTE: Don't forget to run autoconf in wxWidgets root directory + (after running Bakefile) if you changed any conditional + variable or target condition in .bkl files! You will know that + this happened if $(wx)/autoconf_inc.m4 content changed. You can use Bakefile to generate makefiles or projects customized to your needs, too. See Bakefiles.bkgen for details on bakefile commands used to @@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ Or monolithic wxBase: -DDEBUG_INFO=default -DDEBUG_FLAG=default -DOFFICIAL_BUILD=0 -DUSE_HTML=0 -DUSE_OPENGL=0 -DUSE_ODBC=0 -DMONOLITHIC=1 -DUSE_GUI=0 wx.bkl +It is, however, recommended to modify Bakefiles.bkgen (or +Bakefiles.local.bkgen) by means of and directives +and use bakefile_gen instead of running bakefile directly. 2. Bakefile files organization @@ -80,11 +83,11 @@ All files used by main libraries are listed in files.bkl. The file is organized into variables for toolkits, platforms and libraries. The variables come in pairs: there's always FOO_SRC for source files and FOO_HDR for header files. Platform or toolkit specific files are grouped together in variable -with platform or tookit name in them, e.g. BASE_WIN32_SRC, BASE_UNIX_SRC, +with platform or toolkit name in them, e.g. BASE_WIN32_SRC, BASE_UNIX_SRC, GTK_SRC, MOTIF_SRC. Note: A side effect of this toolkit-centric organization is that one file may - be present several times in files.bkl in different contenxt. + be present several times in files.bkl in different contexts. When you are adding a file, you must put it into appropriate variable. This is easy if you are adding the file to library that is always built from same @@ -113,8 +116,7 @@ in the sample's bakefile (see e.g. samples/image/image.bkl for an example). Make sure to add statements for all libraries from multilib build that are required by the sample. -Run Python script regenMakefile.py in $(wx)/build/bakefiles to update Makefile -then run "make" in $(wx)/build/bakefiles directories. +Run bakefile_gen in $(wx)/build/bakefiles to regenerate the bakefiles. Finally commit $(wx)/build/bakefiles/Makefile and all the other modified files. @@ -133,8 +135,8 @@ the library should use WXDLLIMPEXP_FOO defined in wxFoo's headers analogically to WXDLLIMPEXP_{BASE,CORE,HTML,...} in the main library (see 5g below for additional details). -Run Python script regenMakefile.py in $(wx)/build/bakefiles to update Makefile -and commit $(wx)/build/bakefiles/Makefile. +Run bakefile_gen in $(wx)/build/bakefiles to regenerate makefiles +then commit $(wx)/build/bakefiles/Makefile. 6. Adding new core library @@ -172,7 +174,7 @@ a) Add files to files.bkl: b) Modify bakefile system in build/bakefiles/ to recognize wxFoo: * Add 'foo' to MAIN_LIBS and LIBS_NOGUI or LIBS_GUI (depending on whether the library depends on wxCore or not) to wxwin.py file. - * Add the library to DEPS_TABLE in wxwin.py + * Add the library to EXTRALIBS in wxwin.py * Add WXLIB_FOO definition to common.bkl (into the "Names of component libraries" section). It looks like this: @@ -192,7 +194,7 @@ f) Update configure.in and wx-config.in to contain information about the library and needed linker flags: * Add "foo" to either CORE_BASE_LIBS or CORE_GUI_LIBS in configure.in so that wxFoo is not treated as contrib library in monolithic build. - * If wxFoo links against additional libraries, add neccessary linker + * If wxFoo links against additional libraries, add necessary linker flags and libraries to ldflags_foo and ldlibs_foo variables in wx-config.in (both are optional).