X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/b59da6c285f4ac1a52a879a7fa67b52351f08f34..6ada5c335980d255e2fb315ed86c091010870c5e:/docs/motif/install.txt diff --git a/docs/motif/install.txt b/docs/motif/install.txt index 2eada2b3f4..788fca63bf 100644 --- a/docs/motif/install.txt +++ b/docs/motif/install.txt @@ -31,13 +31,13 @@ First steps libXpm (see comments in the Notes section below) if you want to have XPM support in wxWindows (recommended). -- You now have the option of using the configure-based system, or the simple - makefile system. +- You can now use configure to build wxWindows and the samples. Using configure is the recommended 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 wxwin-developers@wx.dent.med.uni-muenchen.de. + config.log file) to wx-dev@lists.wxwindows.org. + COMPILING USING CONFIGURE ========================= @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ If you want to remove wxWindows on Unix you can do this: If you want to do some more serious cross-platform programming with wxWindows, such as for GTK and Motif, you can now build two complete libraries and use -them concurretly. For this end, you have to create a directory for each build +them concurrently. For this end, you have to create a directory for each build of wxWindows - you may also want to create different versions of wxWindows and test them concurrently. Most typically, this would be a version configured with --enable-debug_flag and one without. Note, that only one build can currently @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ cd .. You get errors during compilation: The reason is that you probably have a broken compiler, which includes almost everything that is called gcc. If you use gcc 2.8 -you have to disable optimsation as the compiler will give up with an internal +you have to disable optimisation as the compiler will give up with an internal compiler error. If there is just any way for you to use egcs, use egcs. We cannot fix gcc. @@ -274,11 +274,11 @@ Given below are the commands to change the default behaviour, i.e. if it says "--disable-threads" it means that threads are enabled by default. -Many of the confiugre options have been thoroughly tested +Many of the configure options have been thoroughly tested in wxWindows snapshot 6, but not yet all (ODBC not). You have to add --with-motif on platforms, where Motif is -not the default (on Linux, configure will deafult to GTK). +not the default (on Linux, configure will default to GTK). --without-gtk Don't use the GIMP ToolKit (GTK) @@ -316,9 +316,10 @@ 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 creation of - giving erros 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. @@ -340,7 +341,7 @@ The following options handle the kind of library you want to build. * Feature Options ------------------- -Many of the confiugre options have been thoroughly tested +Many of the configure options have been thoroughly tested in wxWindows snapshot 6, but not yet all (ODBC not). When producing an executable that is linked statically with wxGTK @@ -367,7 +368,7 @@ are --disable-clipboard Disables Clipboard. - --disable-serial Disables object instance serialiasation. + --disable-serial Disables object instance serialisation. --disable-streams Disables the wxStream classes. @@ -401,9 +402,9 @@ make yourself some coffee, as it will take some time. On an old warning messages depending in your compiler. If you want to be more selective, you can change into a specific -directiry and type "make" there. +directory and type "make" there. -Then you may install the library and it's header files under +Then you may install the library and its header files under /usr/local/include/wx and /usr/local/lib respectively. You have to log in as root (i.e. run "su" and enter the root password) and type @@ -444,7 +445,7 @@ clean: rm -f *.o minimal This is certain to become the standard way unless we decide -to sitch to tmake. +to stick to tmake. 2) The other way creates a project within the source code directories of wxWindows. For this endeavour, you'll need @@ -478,51 +479,9 @@ and configure before you can type make. This script will build wxMotif using shared libraries. If you want to build a static wxWindows library, use --disable-shared. -COMPILING USING MAKEFILES -========================= - -- Copy the file include/wx/motif/setup0.h to include/wx/motif/setup.h and - edit it if you wish to enable/disable some library features - -- Choose a .env file from src/makeenvs that matches your - environment, and copy it to src/make.env. These are the - settings read by wxWindows for Motif makefiles. - -- Edit src/make.env to change options according to your local - environment. In particular, change WXDIR to where wxWindows is - found on your system, or set the WXWIN environment variable - before compilation, e.g.: - - export WXWIN=/home/jacs/wx2 - - Please feel free to contribute settings files for your environment. - -- Change directory to src/motif and type: - - make -f makefile.unx motif - - This should make the library libwx_motif.a in the lib - directory. Note that this makefile system does not build shared - libraries, only static ones (that is, the wxWindows library will be - linked statically; to see remaining dependencies on shared libraries, - type e.g. ldd minimal_motif). - -- Make a sample, such as the minimal sample: - - cd samples/minimal - make -f makefile.unx motif - - and run the resulting minimal_motif binary. - Troubleshooting --------------- -- If you have trouble compiling the file y_tab.c, or have strange - linking errors, check whether you're using a C or C++ compiler for this file. - You should specify a C compiler in the CCLEX variable in src/make.env. - You could also try using bison and flex instead of yacc and - lex. - - Solaris compilation with gcc: if the compiler has problems with the variable argument functions, try putting the gcc fixinclude file paths early in the include path. @@ -539,15 +498,6 @@ Troubleshooting possible temporary workaround (comment out the final XtDestroyWidget from ~wxWindow in window.cpp). -- If you use flex and bison instead of yacc and lex, you may need - to change the relevant part of src/motif/makefile.unx to read: - - ../common/y_tab.c: ../common/parser.y - $(YACC) ../common/parser.y - mv ../common/parser.tab.c ../common/y_tab.c - - (the 'mv' command needs to be changed) - - Some compilers, such as Sun C++, may give a lot of warnings about virtual functions being hidden. Please ignore these, it's correct C++ syntax. If you find any incorrect instances, though, such as a @@ -565,41 +515,13 @@ Other Notes and --with-debug_info to --without-debug_info in the makewxmotif script). -- Some classes can be switched off in include/wx/motif/setup.h, - if you are having trouble with a particular file. However, - I'd prefer you to fix the problem and send the fix to me :-) or at - least let me know about it. - -- Thread support is switched off by default in setup.h (wxUSE_THREADS) - because standard Unices often do not have the necessary thread library - installed. Please see ../docs/gtk/install.txt for more details on this. - The systems for which thread support is known to work are Linux with libc6 - (a.k.a. glibc2), Solaris 2.5 and 2.6 (provided that X libraries are thread - safe) and, to some extent, FreeBSD 2.8 and 3.1 (any feedback on thread - support under FreeBSD as well as the systems not mentioned here would be - appreciated). - -- If you run into problems with a missing X11/Xpm.h header, you - need to install the XPM package. It can be obtained from: - - ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/libraries/xpm-3.4k.tar.gz - http://sunfreeware.com - - You may need to modify make.env to add -I and -L options pointing to where Xpm - is installed and possibly change bitmap.cpp to - include instead of - - Alternatively, edit include/wx/motif/setup.h, set wxUSE_XPM - to 0, and recompile. You will not be able to load any XPMs, - though (currently the only supported colour bitmap format). - 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: - wxwin-developers@wx.dent.med.uni-muenchen.de + wx-dev@lists.wxwindows.org Julian Smart, Robert Roebling and Vadim Zeitlin, November 1999.