wxWidgets/docs/msw/install.txt

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Installing wxWindows 2.0
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Unarchiving
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If there is a setup program, run the setup program that comes with the Windows version.
Do not install into a path that contains spaces. The installation program should set the
WXWIN environment variable, which will be activated when your machine is rebooted.
If there is no setup program, it will come as a series of .zip
files:
wx200gen.zip Generic source code and samples (required)
wx200msw.zip Windows-specific source code and samples (required)
wx200doc.zip Documentation source code (not required)
wx200hlp.zip WinHelp documentation
wx200pdf.zip Acrobat PDF documentation
wx200htm.zip HTML documentation
wx200vc.zip MS VC++ 5.0 project files
wx200cw.zip Metrowerks CodeWarrior project files
Unarchive the required files plus any optional documentation
files into a suitable directory such as c:\wx. Alter your
WXWIN environment variable to point to this directory.
Compilation
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At present, wxWindows compiles with VC++ 4.0/5.0/6.0,
BC++ 4.5/5.0, Gnu-Win32 b19/b20, and Mingw32. It may compile
with 16-bit compilers (BC++ and VC++ 1.5) but this hasn't
been tested lately.
Visual C++ 4.0/5.0/6.0 compilation
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Using project files:
1. Unarchive wx200vc.zip, the VC++ 5 project makefiles.
2. Open src/wxvc.dsp, set Debug or Release configuration, and
compile. This will produce lib/wxvc.lib or lib/wxvc_debug.lib.
3. Open a sample project file, choose a configuration, and compile.
The project files don't use precompiled headers, to save
space, but you can switch PCH compiling on for greater speed.
Using makefiles:
1. Make sure your WXWIN variable is set.
2. Change directory to wx\src\msw. Type 'nmake -f makefile.nt' to
make the wxWindows core library.
3. Change directory to wx\samples and type 'nmake -f makefile.nt'
to make all the samples. You can also make them individually.
Notes: if you wish to use templates, please edit
include\wx\msw\setup.h and set wxUSE_DEBUG_NEW_ALWAYS to 0.
Without this, the redefinition of 'new' will cause problems in
the headers. Alternatively, #undef new before including template headers.
Visual C++ 1.5 compilation
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1. Make sure your WXWIN variable is set, and uses the FAT (short
name) form.
2. Change directory to wx\src\msw. Type 'nmake -f makefile.dos' to
make the wxWindows core library.
3. Change directory to a sample, such as wx\samples\minimal, and
type 'nmake -f makefile.dos'.
Borland C++ 4.5/5.0 compilation
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1. Make sure your WXWIN variable is set, and uses the FAT (short
name) form if doing a 16-bit compile.
2. Change directory to wx\src\msw. Type 'make -f makefile.b32' to
make the wxWindows core library. Ignore the warnings about
'XXX' not found in library.
3. Change directory to a sample such as minimal, and type
'make -f makefile.b32'.
Note: the wxWindows library and (some) samples compile in 16-bit mode
using makefile.bcc, but at present the wxWindows resource system is switched
off in this mode. See issues.txt for details.
Watcom C++ 10.6 compilation
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Currently under construction, but so far we have:
1. Make sure your WXWIN variable is set, and uses the FAT (short
name) form.
2. Change directory to wx\src\msw. Type 'wmake -f makefile.wat' to
make the wxWindows core library.
3. Change directory to wx\samples\minimal and type 'wmake -f makefile.wat'
to make this sample. There are a lot of link errors at this
point, so can anyone help work out what I've done wrong?
Metrowerks CodeWarrior compilation
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1. Downloaded and unzip wx200cw.zip.
2. Load the make_cw.mcp project in wx\src, and compile.
3. Load the make_cw.mcp project in wx\samples\minimal, and compile.
Further project files for samples will be available in due
course.
Gnu-Win32 b19/b20/Mingw32 compilation
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wxWindows 2.0 supports Gnu-Win32/Cygwin b19, b20, Mingw32, and Mingw32/EGCS.
Thanks are due to Keith Garry Boyce (garp@opustel.com) and Cygnus for making
it all possible.
From wxWindows 2.0 beta 9, both Gnu-Win32 and Mingw32 (the minimal
distribution of Gnu-Win32) can be used with the same makefiles.
Here are the steps required:
- Retrieve and install the latest beta of Gnu-Win32, or Mingw32, as per the
instructions with either of these packages.
- If using Mingw32 (including the EGCS variant), you need some
extra files to use the wxWindows makefiles. You can find these
files in ports/mingw32 on the ftp site or CD-ROM, as extra.zip.
These should be extracted to the Mingw32 directory.
IMPORTANT: also see mingw32.txt in this directory (docs/msw)
about a fix that has to be applied to a Mingw32 header file.
- Modify the file wx/src/cygnus.bat (or mingw32.bat or mingegcs.bat)
to set up appropriate variables, if necessary mounting drives.
Run it before compiling.
- For Gnu-Win32, make sure there's a \tmp directory on your
Windows drive or bison will crash.
- Edit wx/src/makeg95.env and search for MINGW32. Take note of
the comments for adjusting settings to suit Gnu-Win32 or
Mingw32. Basically, this is just a case of adding the __MINGW32__ symbol
to OPTIONS for Mingw32, or removing it for Cygnus Gnu-Win32.
For Mingw32/EGCS, add both __MINGW32__ and __EGCS__.
- Mingw32 may not support winsock.h, so comment out
socket-related files in src/msw/makefile.g95.
- Use the makefile.g95 files for compiling wxWindows and samples,
e.g.:
> cd c:\wx\src\msw
> make -f makefile.g95
> cd c:\wx\samples\minimal
> make -f makefile.g95
- Use the 'strip' command to reduce executable size.
- With Cygnus Gnu-Win32, you can invoke gdb --nw myfile.exe to
debug an executable. If there are memory leaks, they will be
flagged when the program quits.
- If using GnuWin32 b18, you will need to copy windres.exe
from e.g. the Mingw32 distribution, to a directory in your path.
All targets have 'clean' targets to allow removal of object files
and other intermediate compiler files.
Gotchas:
- libwx.a is 48 MB or more - but much less if compiled with no
debug info (-g0) and level 4 optimization (-O4).
- install.exe doesn't have built-in decompression because lzexpand.lib
isn't available with Gnu-Win32. However, you can use it with external
decompression utilities.
- Doesn't compile src/msw/ole files, so no drag and drop.
References:
- The GNU-WIN32 site is at
http://www.cygnus.com/gnu-win32/
- Mingw32 is available at:
http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~janjaap/mingw32/index.html
- See also http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/gnuwin32.htm
Notes
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- Debugging: under Windows 95, debugging output isn't output in
the same way that it is under NT or Windows 3.1. Set
wxUSE_DBWIN32 to 1 if you wish to enable code to output debugging
info to an external debug monitor, such as Andrew Tucker's DBWIN32.
You can download DBWIN32 from:
http://ftp.digital.com/pub/micro/NT/WinSite/programr/dbwin32.zip
and it's also on the wxWindows CD-ROM under Packages.