From 75fcbf8e16c6b1cf177e7471b9cc27f97edb3c94 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?V=C3=A1clav=20Slav=C3=ADk?= Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 20:33:16 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] updating docs to reflect build system changes git-svn-id: https://svn.wxwidgets.org/svn/wx/wxWidgets/trunk@22613 c3d73ce0-8a6f-49c7-b76d-6d57e0e08775 --- BuildCVS.txt | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- docs/gtk/install.txt | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- docs/motif/install.txt | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- docs/x11/install.txt | 28 ++++++++++++++++++--------- 4 files changed, 99 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-) diff --git a/BuildCVS.txt b/BuildCVS.txt index 998a896..b7ddba7 100644 --- a/BuildCVS.txt +++ b/BuildCVS.txt @@ -25,23 +25,27 @@ You can get MinGW from http://www.mingw.org/ Cygwin is available at http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ -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 @@ -56,10 +60,10 @@ c) Build instructions and std iostreams are disabled with #define wxUSE_STD_IOSTREAM 0 --> type: cd c:\wxWin\src\msw --> type: set WXWIN=c:\wxWin --> type: make -f makefile.g95 (if using GNU tools) +-> type: cd c:\wxWin\build\win32 +-> 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. @@ -68,9 +72,12 @@ d) Borland (including free command line tools) See docs/msw/install.txt for details; in brief --> type set WXWIN=c:\wxwindows --> type cd %WXWIN%\src\msw --> type make -f makefile.b32 +-> type cd %WXWIN%\build\win32 +-> type make -f makefile.bcc + +You can customize many things in the build process, detailed description is +in docs/msw/install.txt. + II) Unix ports -------------- @@ -81,10 +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). @@ -141,7 +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). diff --git a/docs/gtk/install.txt b/docs/gtk/install.txt index 2999a29..487ce0b 100644 --- a/docs/gtk/install.txt +++ b/docs/gtk/install.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -wxWindows 2.4 for GTK installation +wxWindows 2.5 for GTK installation ---------------------------------- IMPORTANT NOTE: @@ -44,11 +44,11 @@ If you want to remove wxWindows on Unix you can do this: * The GTK+ 2 case ----------------- -wxGTK 2.4.0 has support for the new version 2.0.X of GTK+. This means -that wxGTK apps can now make use Unicode as the underlying encoding -for all text operations. This is a very fundamental change and will -need time to stabilize, so be careful. Anyways, after installing a -recent version of GTK+ 2.0, do this +wxGTK has support for the new version 2.0.X of GTK+ since version 2.4.0. +This means that wxGTK apps can now make use Unicode as the underlying encoding +for all text operations. This is a very fundamental change and will need time +to stabilize, so be careful. Anyways, after installing a recent version of GTK+ +2.0, do this > ./configure --with-gtk --enable-gtk2 --enable-unicode > make @@ -175,14 +175,8 @@ at my homepage. wxWindows/Gtk 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, these Linux distributions have correct glibc -2 support: - - - RedHat 5.1 - - Debian 2.0 and 3.0 - - Stampede - - DLD 6.0 - - SuSE 6.0 +many aspects. As of writing this, virtually all Linux distributions have +correct glibc 2 support. You can disable thread support by running @@ -296,6 +290,10 @@ The following options handle the kind of library you want to build. --disable-shared Do not create shared libraries, but build static libraries instead. + --enable-monolithic Build wxWindows as single library instead + of as several smaller libraries (which is + the default since wxWindows 2.5.0). + --disable-optimise Do not optimise the code. Can sometimes be useful for debugging and is required on some architectures @@ -367,6 +365,8 @@ are --without-libtiff Disables TIFF image format code. + --without-expat Disable XML classes based on Expat parser. + --disable-pnm Disables PNM image format code. --disable-gif Disables GIF image format code. @@ -403,6 +403,10 @@ Apart from disabling certain features you can very often "strip" the program of its debugging information resulting in a significant reduction in size. +Please see the output of "./configure --help" for comprehensive list +of all configurable options. + + * Compiling ----------- @@ -464,6 +468,12 @@ 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 +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 GNU autoconf version 2.14 and add an entry to your Makefile.in diff --git a/docs/motif/install.txt b/docs/motif/install.txt index 8962f5c..65bad2c 100644 --- a/docs/motif/install.txt +++ b/docs/motif/install.txt @@ -156,15 +156,9 @@ You can get the newest version of the Lesstif from the lesstif homepage at: wxWindows/Motif 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, these Linux distributions have correct glibc -2 support: - - - RedHat 5.1 - - Debian 2.0 and 3.0 - - Stampede - - DLD 6.0 - - SuSE 6.0 - +many aspects. As of writing this, virtually all Linux distributions have +correct glibc 2 support. + You can disable thread support by running ./configure --disable-threads @@ -286,15 +280,19 @@ The following options handle the kind of library you want to build. --disable-threads Compile without thread support. Threads support is also required for the - socket code to work. + socket code to work. --disable-shared Do not create shared libraries. - --disable-optimise Do not optimise the code. Can + --enable-monolithic Build wxWindows as single library instead + of as several smaller libraries (which is + the default since wxWindows 2.5.0). + + --disable-optimise Do not optimise the code. Can sometimes be useful for debugging - and is required on some architectures - such as Sun with gcc 2.8.X which - would otherwise produce segvs. + and is required on some architectures + such as Sun with gcc 2.8.X which + would otherwise produce segvs. --enable-profile Add profiling info to the object files. Currently broken, I think. @@ -355,6 +353,10 @@ are --without-libjpeg Disables JPEG image format code. --without-odbc Disables ODBC code. + + --without-libtiff Disables TIFF image format code. + + --without-expat Disable XML classes based on Expat parser. --disable-threads Disables threads. Will also disable sockets. @@ -381,6 +383,10 @@ Apart from disabling certain features you can very often "strip" the program of its debugging information resulting in a significant reduction in size. +Please see the output of "./configure --help" for comprehensive list +of all configurable options. + + * Compiling ----------- @@ -442,6 +448,12 @@ 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 +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 GNU autoconf version 2.14 and add an entry to your Makefile.in diff --git a/docs/x11/install.txt b/docs/x11/install.txt index b9d30f0..b17a6c1 100644 --- a/docs/x11/install.txt +++ b/docs/x11/install.txt @@ -145,15 +145,9 @@ wxWindows/X11 requires the X11 library to be installed on your system. wxWindows/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, these Linux distributions have correct glibc -2 support: - - - RedHat 5.1 - - Debian 2.0 and 3.0 - - Stampede - - DLD 6.0 - - SuSE 6.0 - +many aspects. As of writing this, virtually all Linux distributions have ++correct glibc 2 support. + You can disable thread support by running ./configure --disable-threads @@ -274,6 +268,10 @@ 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 + of as several smaller libraries (which is + the default since wxWindows 2.5.0). + --disable-optimise Do not optimise the code. Can sometimes be useful for debugging and is required on some architectures @@ -336,6 +334,8 @@ are --without-libjpeg Disables JPEG image format code. { --without-odbc Disables ODBC code. Not yet. } + + --without-expat Disable XML classes based on Expat parser. --disable-resources Disables the use of *.wxr type resources. @@ -367,6 +367,10 @@ Apart from disabling certain features you can very often "strip" the program of its debugging information resulting in a significant reduction in size. +Please see the output of "./configure --help" for comprehensive list +of all configurable options. + + * Compiling ----------- @@ -428,6 +432,12 @@ 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 +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 GNU autoconf version 2.14 and add an entry to your Makefile.in -- 2.7.4