X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/93f467a3b4d1eda959b44cc01df34b4463383cfe..2bcada5f33151d366b9d4c9e5e37c706dab23b27:/docs/msw/wince/readme.txt diff --git a/docs/msw/wince/readme.txt b/docs/msw/wince/readme.txt index 8666f0a9bd..d48ba9a8ea 100644 --- a/docs/msw/wince/readme.txt +++ b/docs/msw/wince/readme.txt @@ -1,79 +1,78 @@ ================================================= - Welcome to wxWindows/CE 2.5.1 + Welcome to wxWidgets/CE ================================================= -You have downloaded version 2.5.1 of the Windows CE port of -the wxWindows GUI library. This runs on PocketPC 2002 -and SmartPhone 2002. +This is the readme file for the Windows CE port of the wxWidgets GUI library +which runs on Pocket PC 2002/2003, Smartphone 2002/2003, Windows CE .NET 4.x, +and Windows Mobile 5. This port requires the use of Microsoft Visual Studio +2005 and 2008, in particular eVC (Visual C++ Embedded) is not supported any +longer. -More information about the wxWindows project as a whole -can be found at: +More information about the wxWidgets project as a whole can be found at: - http://www.wxwindows.org + http://www.wxwidgets.org/ -Information about the Windows CE port in particular -can be found here: +Information about the Windows CE port in particular can be found in +the wxWinCE topic in the wxWidgets reference manual. -http://wiki.wxwindows.org/wiki.pl?Windows_CE_Port -Supported platforms -=================== - -These are the supported platform at the moment: +wxWidgets/CE Configuration +================================ -- x86 emulator -- PocketPC (StrongARM) +You may wish to customize the file include/wx/msw/wince/setup.h before building +wxWinCE to disable any features that your program doesn't need and minimize the +size of the library. -You can test the library and applications using PocketPC emulator -and/or Compaq iPAQ or other PDAs using PocketPC -WindowsCE.NET is not supported. +wxWidgets/CE Compilation +================================ -Compiler installation -===================== +Unless the archive you downloaded already included CE-specific project files, +you first need to generate them yourself. For this please install bakefile +(from http://www.bakefile.org/, see technote docs/tech/tn0016.txt for more +details about it) and create the file build/bakefiles/Bakefiles.local.bkgen +with the following contents for Visual Studio 2008 (replace 2008 with 2005 +everywhere for the previous version): -Get the Visual C++ embedded (FREE) from Microsoft website - http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/device/embedded/download.asp - -You must use Visual Tools 3.0 for CE 3.0  - (this is the same we are currently using for wxWinCE) - -Install selecting only the two target platforms used: + -- WCE x86em (PocketPC emulation) -- WCE ARM (PocketPC StrongARM) + + msvs2008prj(arm) + + -o ../msw/wx_vc9arm.sln -DMSVS_PLATFORMS=pocketpc2003 -DCOMPILER_PREFIX=vc9arm + + + -o $(INPUT_FILE_DIR)/$(INPUT_FILE_BASENAME_NOEXT)_vc9arm.sln -DMSVS_PLATFORMS=pocketpc2003 -DCOMPILER_PREFIX=vc9arm + + -Download an archive containing the library project file -and a sample project file: +Notice that this will create the output files in the directories using "vc9arm" +prefix instead of the usual "vc" one which allows to build the normal wxMSW and +wxCE in the same wxWidgets source tree. You're, of course, free, to use +different names for the project files suffix and the output directories prefix +if you wish. -http://www.anthemion.co.uk/wxwin/wxWinCE.zip +Then do -Unarchive this over your wxWindows installation. +cd %WXWIN%\build\bakefiles +bakefile_gen -f msvs2008prj -wxWindows/CE Compilation -================================ +to create all *vc9arm.vcproj files. After this, simply open the solution file +in Visual Studio and build it. -Open src/msw/wince/wxWindowsCE.vcp, select an -ARM or x86 target, and compile. - -Then open samples/minimal/minimalCE.vcp, select an -ARM or x86 target, and compile. You can -use the emulator or real hardware to run the -sample. Status ====== -Currently under development. For further information -about what has been done and what needs to be -done, see: - -http://wiki.wxwindows.org/wiki.pl?Windows_CE_Port - -Disclaimer -========== +It's possible to create working Pocket PC or Smartphone +applications with this port. For further information +about how to use wxWidgets with Windows CE, and further +work that needs to be done, see the wxWinCE topic in the +reference manual, and also: -All product names are used for identification purposes and are trademarks -or registered trademarks owned by their respective companies. +http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Developers_Notebook/WxWinCE +The "Life!" demo in demos/life has some adaptations for +wxWinCE, and also demonstrates how to make an installer for +a Pocket PC application.