X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/9a718b8623ff72c59f63cddc30ddb14a0e9bc05e..00b34ed7ed66249448856c0819e107822e56d33b:/BuildCVS.txt

diff --git a/BuildCVS.txt b/BuildCVS.txt
index c630582fcc..02b057a8f7 100644
--- a/BuildCVS.txt
+++ b/BuildCVS.txt
@@ -12,9 +12,8 @@ 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.
 
@@ -23,53 +22,62 @@ b) If using the MinGW or Cygwin compilers
 
 You can get MinGW from  http://www.mingw.org/
 
-Cygwin is available at  http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/
+Cygwin is available at  http://www.cygwin.com/
 
-The makefile might have small problems with Cygwin's tools
-so it is recommended to use MinGW and its toolchain instead
-if possible.
+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 wxWindows without configure using native makefile, but only with
+MinGW. Using Cygwin together with Windows makefile is no longer supported.
+
+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 MinGW 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 MinGW 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 MinGW) or 0 (you have Cygwin).
-   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 to choose
+Assumming that you installed the wxWindows sources
+into c:\wxWindows:
+
+-> Copy c:\wxWindows\include\wx\msw\setup0.h
+   to   c:\wxWindows\include\wx\msw\setup.h
+-> Edit c:\wxWindows\include\wx\msw\setup.h to choose
    the features you would like to compile wxWindows 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:\wxWindows\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
+   See docs/msw/install.txt for details; in brief:
+
+-> type cd c:\wxWindows\build\msw
+-> type make -f makefile.bcc
+
+You can customize many things in the build process, detailed description is
+in docs/msw/install.txt.
 
--> type set WXWIN=c:\wxwindows
--> type cd %WXWIN%\src\msw
--> type make -f makefile.b32
 
 II) Unix ports
 --------------
@@ -80,10 +88,11 @@ 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).
@@ -140,7 +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).
@@ -153,6 +162,7 @@ or type: ../configure
 
 VI) OS/2
 ----------------------------------------
+No notes.
 
 VII) Unix->Windows cross-compiling using configure
 --------------------------------------------------