X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/cfde0f19b63b9312adfa4868d8347895e8058768..5d7792236f7e4fcbb94cdc2a5213e0c5788e8c28:/docs/tech/tn0016.txt diff --git a/docs/tech/tn0016.txt b/docs/tech/tn0016.txt index 5094c99642..6120998ddf 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 @@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ the bakefile_gen tool. Run it from $(wx)/build/bakefiles directory and it will regenerate all outdated makefiles. See $(wx)/build/bakefiles/README for more details. -Note that it generates makefiles for samples and contrib libraries, too. +Note that it generates makefiles for samples, too. -IMPORTANT NOTE: Don't forget to run autoconf in wxWindows root directory +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. @@ -41,23 +41,24 @@ 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 ------------------------------ -Makefile are generated from .bkl files ("bakefiles") from three places: +Makefile are generated from .bkl files ("bakefiles") from two places: - $(wx)/build/bakefiles directory - - $(wx)/contrib/build/* directories - samples directories $(wx)/build/bakefiles contains bakefiles for main library and support files -that simplify writing bakefiles for contrib and samples. +that simplify writing bakefiles for samples. Support files are: wxwin.py - helper functions common.bkl common_samples.bkl - common_contrib.bkl - shared definitions and templates config.bkl - user-configurable build options make_dist.mk - implementation of "make dist" on Unix @@ -80,11 +81,11 @@ 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 @@ -113,30 +114,18 @@ 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 bakefile_gen in $(wx)/build/bakefiles to regenerate the bakefiles. - -Finally commit $(wx)/build/bakefiles/Makefile and all the other modified files. +The Windows resource specification should use the central .rc file: + ../sample.rc -5. Adding contrib library -------------------------- - -Contrib library bakefiles are located in $(wx)/contrib/build/name-of-contrib -directory, together with generated makefiles. Copy the bakefile from another -contrib library, change the IDs and files accordingly. Note that there must be -two targets for contrib wxFoo: foodll and foolib. +Run bakefile_gen in $(wx)/build/bakefiles to regenerate the bakefiles. -foodll definition must contain statements for all libraries it -depends on. WXUSINGDLL and WXMAKINGDLL_FOO must be defined and symbols from -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). +Finally commit $(wx)/build/bakefiles/make_dist.mk and all the other modified files. -Run bakefile_gen in $(wx)/build/bakefiles to regenerate makefiles -then commit $(wx)/build/bakefiles/Makefile. +Currently we commit the generated makefiles except .dms, .vcp. -6. Adding new core library +5. Adding new core library -------------------------- When adding new library to the core set of libraries, the files must be @@ -158,7 +147,7 @@ a) Add files to files.bkl: Finally, define FOO_SRC and FOO_HDR to contain both FOO_PLATFORM_{SRC,HDR} and FOO_{SRC,HDR} (see NET_SRC definition for an example). - * Add FOO_HDR to ALL_GUI_HEADERS or ALL_BASE_HEADERS. + * Add FOO_HDR to ALL_GUI_HEADERS or ALL_BASE_HEADERS. * If wxFoo is wxBase library (doesn't use GUI), add FOO_SRC to ALL_BASE_SOURCES. @@ -171,27 +160,27 @@ 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 extra libraries needed by wxFoo (if any) to EXTRALIBS in wxwin.py * Add WXLIB_FOO definition to common.bkl (into the "Names of component libraries" section). It looks like this: $(mk.evalExpr(wxwin.mkLibName('foo'))) -c) Add files to monolithic build: it's enough to add FOO_SRC to MONOLIB_GUI_SRC - or MONOLIB_SRC, depending on whether wxFoo uses GUI or not. +c) Modify monolithic.bkl to add files to monolithic build: it's enough to add + FOO_SRC to MONOLIB_GUI_SRC or MONOLIB_SRC, depending on whether wxFoo uses + GUI or not. -d) Add files to multilib build: add foolib and foodll targets. Don't use - wxBase targets as the template, use e.g. wxXML or wxHTML. Make sure - WXMAKINGDLL_FOO is defined in foodll. +d) Modify multilib.bkl to add files to multilib build: add foolib and foodll + targets. Don't use wxBase targets as the template, use e.g. wxXML or wxHTML. + Make sure WXMAKINGDLL_FOO is defined in foodll. e) Regenerate all makefiles (don't forget to run autoconf) 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 + * Add "foo" to either STD_BASE_LIBS or STD_GUI_LIBS in configure.in. + * 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). @@ -209,6 +198,7 @@ g) Update dlimpexp.h to define WXMAKINGDLL_FOO if WXMAKINGDLL is defined (add #define WXDLLIMPEXP_NET #define WXDLLIMPEXP_DATA_NET(type) type #endif + Don't forget to add WXDLLIMPEXP_FWD_FOO definitions too. Use WXDLLIMPEXP_FOO when declaring wxFoo classes and functions. h) Add this code to one of wxFoo's files (the more often used, the better): @@ -217,8 +207,13 @@ h) Add this code to one of wxFoo's files (the more often used, the better): WX_CHECK_BUILD_OPTIONS("wxFoo") i) Add information about wxFoo to the manual ("Libraries list" section - in libs.tex). + in libs.tex) and update docs/latex/wx/libs.dia (you need Dia for this) + to show the dependencies of the new library. +j) Also please add 4 #pragma comment(lib, "foo") (for Unicode/ANSI + Release/Debug combinations) to the file include/msvc/wx/setup.h and + add a check for WXMAKINGDLL_FOO to the test whether we're building a DLL at + the end of include/wx/msw/chkconf.h. === EOF ===