X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/d21c1b56724aac9900ce74cc3e7846551c524c6c..09f010822417f2d9efa6e32783c02e9042f1e469:/docs/x11/install.txt diff --git a/docs/x11/install.txt b/docs/x11/install.txt index a3543c69f6..d9d78aabe3 100644 --- a/docs/x11/install.txt +++ b/docs/x11/install.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -wxWindows 2.5 for X11 installation ----------------------------------- +wxWidgets for X11 installation +------------------------------ IMPORTANT NOTE: @@ -9,25 +9,25 @@ IMPORTANT NOTE: mailing wxwin-users or the author. Preferably, try to fix the problem first and then send a patch to the author. - When sending bug reports tell us what version of wxWindows you are + When sending bug reports tell us what version of wxWidgets you are using (including the beta) and what compiler on what system. One - example: wxX11 2.5.1, gcc 2.95.4, Redhat 6.2 + example: wxX11 2.8.0, gcc 2.95.4, Redhat 6.2 First steps ----------- - Download wxX11-x.y.z.tgz, where x.y.z is the version number. Download documentation in a preferred format, such as - wxWindows-HTML.zip or wxWindows-PDF.zip. + wxWidgets-HTML.zip or wxWidgets-PDF.zip. - Make a directory such as ~/wx and unarchive the files into this directory. - It is recommended that you install bison and flex; using yacc and lex may require tweaking of the makefiles. You also need - libXpm if you want to have XPM support in wxWindows (recommended). + libXpm if you want to have XPM support in wxWidgets (recommended). -- You can now use configure to build wxWindows and the samples. +- You can now use configure to build wxWidgets 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 @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ COMPILING USING CONFIGURE * The simplest case ------------------- -If you compile wxWindows on Linux for the first time and don't like to read +If you compile wxWidgets on Linux for the first time and don't like to read install instructions just do (in the base dir): > ./configure --with-x11 @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Afterwards you can continue with > ldconfig > exit -If you want to remove wxWindows on Unix you can do this: +If you want to remove wxWidgets on Unix you can do this: > su > make uninstall @@ -68,10 +68,10 @@ If you want to remove wxWindows on Unix you can do this: * The expert case ----------------- -If you want to do some more serious cross-platform programming with wxWindows, +If you want to do some more serious cross-platform programming with wxWidgets, such as for GTK and X11, you can now build two complete libraries and use 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 +of wxWidgets - you may also want to create different versions of wxWidgets 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 be installed, so you'd have to use local version of the library for @@ -122,12 +122,12 @@ g++ myfoo.cpp `wx-config --libs --cxxflags` -o myfoo * General --------- -The Unix variants of wxWindows use GNU configure. If you have problems with +The Unix variants of wxWidgets use GNU configure. If you have problems with your make use GNU make instead. -If you have general problems with installation, see the wxWindows website at +If you have general problems with installation, see the wxWidgets website at - http://www.wxwindows.org/ + http://www.wxwidgets.org/ for newest information. If you still don't have any success, please send a bug report to one of our mailing lists (see my homepage) INCLUDING A DESCRIPTION OF @@ -137,12 +137,12 @@ YOU USE AND WHAT ERROR WAS REPORTED. I know this has no effect, but I tried... * GUI libraries --------------- -wxWindows/X11 requires the X11 library to be installed on your system. +wxWidgets/X11 requires the X11 library to be installed on your system. * Additional libraries ---------------------- -wxWindows/X11 requires a thread library and X libraries known to work with +wxWidgets/X11 requires a thread library and X libraries known to work with threads. This is the case on all commercial Unix-Variants and all Linux-Versions that are based on glibc 2 except RedHat 5.0 which is broken in many aspects. As of writing this, virtually all Linux distributions have @@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ exit Please send comments and question about the OS/2 installation to Stefan Neis and patches to -the wxWindows mailing list. +the wxWidgets mailing list. In the following list, the version numbers indicate the configuration that was actually used by myself, newer version should cause no problems and @@ -217,6 +217,20 @@ untested). The SGI native compiler support has only been tested on Irix 6.5. +* Building wxX11 on Cygwin +-------------------------- + +The normal build instructions should work fine on Cygwin. The one difference +with Cygwin is that when using the "--enable-shared" configure option (which +is the default) the API is exported explicitly using __declspec(dllexport) +rather than all global symbols being available. + +This shouldn't make a difference using the library and should be a little +more efficient. However if an export attribute has been missed somewhere you +will see linking errors. If this happens then you can work around the +problem by setting LDFLAGS=-Wl,--export-all-symbols. Please also let us know +about it on the wx-dev mailing list. + * Create your configuration --------------------------- @@ -268,9 +282,9 @@ The following options handle the kind of library you want to build. --disable-shared Do not create shared libraries. - --enable-monolithic Build wxWindows as single library instead + --enable-monolithic Build wxWidgets as single library instead of as several smaller libraries (which is - the default since wxWindows 2.5.0). + the default since wxWidgets 2.5.0). --disable-optimise Do not optimise the code. Can sometimes be useful for debugging @@ -310,7 +324,7 @@ The following options handle the kind of library you want to build. such as gdb (or its many frontends). --enable-debug_flag Define __DEBUG__ and __WXDEBUG__ when - compiling. This enable wxWindows' very + compiling. This enable wxWidgets' very useful internal debugging tricks (such as automatically reporting illegal calls) to work. Note that program and library @@ -321,11 +335,11 @@ The following options handle the kind of library you want to build. ----------------- Many of the configure options have been thoroughly tested -in wxWindows snapshot 6, but not yet all (ODBC not). +in wxWidgets snapshot 6, but not yet all (ODBC not). When producing an executable that is linked statically with wxX11 you'll be surprised at its immense size. This can sometimes be -drastically reduced by removing features from wxWindows that +drastically reduced by removing features from wxWidgets that are not used in your program. The most relevant such features are @@ -396,7 +410,7 @@ password) and type make install -You can remove any traces of wxWindows by typing +You can remove any traces of wxWidgets by typing make uninstall @@ -432,14 +446,14 @@ clean: This is certain to become the standard way unless we decide to stick to tmake. -If your application uses only some of wxWindows libraries, you can +If your application uses only some of wxWidgets libraries, you can specify required libraries when running wx-config. For example, `wx-config --libs=html,core` will only output link command to link with libraries required by core GUI classes and wxHTML classes. See the manual for more information on the libraries. 2) The other way creates a project within the source code -directories of wxWindows. For this endeavour, you'll need +directories of wxWidgets. For this endeavour, you'll need GNU autoconf version 2.14 and add an entry to your Makefile.in to the bottom of the configure.in script and run autoconf and configure before you can type make. @@ -456,7 +470,7 @@ and configure before you can type make. # makewxx11 # Sets permissions (in case we extracted wxX11 from zip files) # and makes wxX11. - # Call from top-level wxWindows directory. + # Call from top-level wxWidgets directory. # Note that this uses standard (but commonly-used) configure options; # if you're feeling brave, you may wish to compile with threads: # if they're not supported by the target platform, they will be disabled @@ -468,7 +482,7 @@ and configure before you can type make. -------:x-----Cut here-----:x----- This script will build wxX11 using shared libraries. If you want to build - a static wxWindows library, use --disable-shared. + a static wxWidgets library, use --disable-shared. Troubleshooting --------------- @@ -508,5 +522,4 @@ compiler and the error message(s) to the wxwin-developers mailing list at: wx-dev@lists.wxwindows.org -Julian Smart, Robert Roebling and Vadim Zeitlin, February 2002.