X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/f6bb64a625e2aa0234153dae65ee7c24809314e1..852b6c3ce7baa055da25f5254f6ee2eee0cd79b7:/docs/latex/wx/body.tex?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/body.tex b/docs/latex/wx/body.tex index d6a03e8281..aa983ac361 100644 --- a/docs/latex/wx/body.tex +++ b/docs/latex/wx/body.tex @@ -141,11 +141,13 @@ To make use of wxWidgets, you currently need one of the following setups. (a) MS-Windows: \begin{enumerate}\itemsep=0pt -\item A 486 or higher PC running MS Windows. -\item A Windows compiler: most are supported, but please see {\tt install.txt} for -details. Supported compilers include Microsoft Visual C++ 4.0 or higher, Borland C++, Cygwin, -MinGW, Metrowerks CodeWarrior. -\item At least 60 MB of disk space. +\item A 32-bit or 64-bit PC running MS Windows. +\item A Windows compiler: MS Visual C++ (embedded Visual C++ for wxWinCE +port), Borland C++, Watcom C++, Cygwin, MinGW, Metrowerks CodeWarrior, +Digital Mars C++. See {\tt install.txt} for details about compiler +version supported. +\item At least 100 MB of disk space for source tree and additional space for +libraries and application building (depends on compiler and build settings). \end{enumerate} (b) Unix: @@ -154,7 +156,8 @@ MinGW, Metrowerks CodeWarrior. \item Almost any C++ compiler, including GNU C++ (EGCS 1.1.1 or above). \item Almost any Unix workstation, and one of: GTK+ 1.2, GTK+ 2.0, Motif 1.2 or higher, Lesstif. If using the wxX11 port, no such widget set is required. -\item At least 60 MB of disk space. +\item At least 100 MB of disk space for source tree and additional space for +libraries and application building (depends on compiler and build settings). \end{enumerate} (c) Mac OS/Mac OS X: @@ -162,8 +165,9 @@ If using the wxX11 port, no such widget set is required. \begin{enumerate}\itemsep=0pt \item A PowerPC Mac running Mac OS 8.6/9.x (eg. Classic) or Mac OS X 10.x. \item CodeWarrior 5.3, 6 or 7 for Classic Mac OS. -\item The Apple Developer Tools (eg. GNU C++) or CodeWarrior 7 for Mac OS X. -\item At least 60 MB of disk space. +\item The Apple Developer Tools (eg. GNU C++), CodeWarrior 7 or above for Mac OS X. +\item At least 100 MB of disk space for source tree and additional space for +libraries and application building (depends on compiler and build settings). \end{enumerate} \section{Availability and location of wxWidgets}\label{where} @@ -193,10 +197,10 @@ Hermann Dunkel, Jos van Eijndhoven, Chris Elliott, David Elliott, Tom Felici, Thomas Fettig, Matthew Flatt, Pasquale Foggia, Josep Fortiana, Todd Fries, Dominic Gallagher, Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia, Wolfram Gloger, Norbert Grotz, Stefan Gunter, Bill Hale, Patrick Halke, Stefan Hammes, Guillaume Helle, -Harco de Hilster, Cord Hockemeyer, Markus Holzem, Olaf Klein, Leif Jensen, +Harco de Hilster, Kevin Hock, Cord Hockemeyer, Markus Holzem, Olaf Klein, Leif Jensen, Bart Jourquin, Guilhem Lavaux, Ron Lee, Jan Lessner, Nicholas Liebmann, Torsten Liermann, Per Lindqvist, Thomas Runge, Tatu M\"{a}nnist\"{o}, -Scott Maxwell, Thomas Myers, Oliver Niedung, Stefan Neis, Hernan Otero, +Scott Maxwell, Thomas Myers, Oliver Niedung, Stefan Neis, Ryan Norton, Hernan Otero, Ian Perrigo, Timothy Peters, Giordano Pezzoli, Harri Pasanen, Thomaso Paoletti, Garrett Potts, Marcel Rasche, Robert Roebling, Dino Scaringella, Jobst Schmalenbach, Arthur Seaton, Paul Shirley, Wlodzimierz `ABX' Skiba, @@ -259,16 +263,12 @@ the following section before any other includes: The file {\tt "wx/wxprec.h"} includes {\tt "wx/wx.h"}. Although this incantation may seem quirky, it is in fact the end result of a lot of experimentation, -and several Windows compilers to use precompilation (those tested are Microsoft Visual C++, Borland C++ -and Watcom C++). - -Borland precompilation is largely automatic. Visual C++ requires specification of {\tt "wx/wxprec.h"} as -the file to use for precompilation. Watcom C++ is automatic apart from the specification of -the .pch file. Watcom C++ is strange in requiring the precompiled header to be used only for -object files compiled in the same directory as that in which the precompiled header was created. -Therefore, the wxWidgets Watcom C++ makefiles go through hoops deleting and recreating -a single precompiled header file for each module, thus preventing an accumulation of many -multi-megabyte .pch files. +and several Windows compilers to use precompilation which is largely automatic for +compilers with necessary support. Currently it is used for Visual C++ (including +embedded Visual C++), Borland C++, Open Watcom C++, Digital Mars C++ +and newer versions of GCC. +Some compilers might need extra work from the application developer to set the +build environment up as necessary for the support. \section{Libraries}\label{libraries} @@ -325,8 +325,8 @@ xxx is the platform of interest, such as msw, gtk, x11, mac. \section{Windows-specific files}\label{windowsfiles} -wxWidgets application compilation under MS Windows requires at least two -extra files, resource and module definition files. +wxWidgets application compilation under MS Windows requires at least one +extra file: a resource file. \subsection{Resource file}\label{resources} @@ -546,8 +546,8 @@ development can be done. The program can be found in {\tt utils/configtool}. \item[{\bf XRC resource system}] This is the sizer-aware resource system, and uses XML-based resource specifications that can be generated by tools -such as \urlref{wxDesigner}{http://www.roebling.de} and XRC's own wxrcedit. -You can find this in {\tt src/xrc}, {\tt include/wx/xrc}, {\tt samples/xrc}, and {\tt utils/wxrcedit}. +such as \urlref{wxDesigner}{http://www.roebling.de}. +You can find this in {\tt src/xrc}, {\tt include/wx/xrc}, {\tt samples/xrc}. For more information, see the \helpref{XML-based resource system overview}{xrcoverview}. \item[{\bf Object Graphics Library}] OGL defines an API for applications that need to display objects connected by lines.