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wxWidgets 2.5 for MGL installation
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IMPORTANT NOTE:
If you experience problems installing, please re-read these
instructions and other related files (todo.txt, bugs.txt and
osname.txt for your platform if it exists) carefully before
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 wxWidgets you are
using (including the beta) and what compiler on what system. One
example: wxMGL 2.5.2, gcc 2.95.3, Redhat 7.0
First steps
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- Download SciTech MGL library (version 5.0) from http://www.scitechsoft.com.
The downloads page is here (you need MGL version 5.0beta7 or newer):
http://www.scitechsoft.com/products/embedded/mgl_home.html
Install MGL according to provided instructions. In particular, make sure that
MGL_ROOT and NUCLEUS_PATH environment variables are set before attempting to
build wxMGL.
Make sure you installed all MGL components, including the "fonts" package
(it's called mgl50b7-font.tar.gz in Linux version). It is important to have
SciTech's basic fonts in $(MGL_ROOT)/fonts directory (you may want to add
Arial TrueType font for better output quality) and basic cursors in
$(MGL_ROOT)/cursors. wxMGL depends on their presence.
- Download wxMGL-x.y.z.tgz, where x.y.z is the version number.
Download documentation in a preferred format, such as
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 can now use configure or makefiles to build wxWidgets and the samples.
In case of problems, please use GNU make.
COMPILING
=========
Following systems are supported by wxMGL so far:
- Unix (Linux etc.)
- MS-DOS (DJGPP and Watcom compilers)
* Compiling using configure
----------------------------
These instructions apply to installation on a Unix system (such as Linux). Please
see bellow for information on using configure on non-Unix platforms.
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-mgl
> make
> su <type root password>
> make install
> ldconfig
> exit
Afterwards you can continue with
> make
> su <type root password>
> make install
> ldconfig
> exit
If you want to remove wxWidgets on Unix you can do this:
> su <type root password>
> make uninstall
> ldconfig
> exit
You can set many options to configure. Type
> ./configure --help
and you will get a list of supported options.
* Using wxMGL library built with configure
-------------------------------------------
'make install' will install wx-config script that can (and should) be used
to get compiler flags that are needed to build your program. wx-config --cxxflags
will output necessary C++ compiler flags and wx-config --libs will list all
needed libraries. See an example of wxWidgets application makefile:
minimal: minimal.o
$(CC) -o minimal minimal.o `wx-config --libs`
minimal.o: minimal.cpp mondrian.xpm
$(CC) `wx-config --cxxflags` -c minimal.cpp -o minimal.o
* Using configure to build MS-DOS version
------------------------------------------
Even though configure is a Unix script, you can use it to build MS-DOS version
of the wxMGL library. There are two possible ways to achieve this: you can
either cross-compile from Unix or compile natively. Either way you will needed
the DJGPP port of GCC compiler freely available from http://www.djgpp.org. You will
also need DJGPP version of SciTech MGL (this must be built using native tools).
Cross-compilation is very easy. It works like ordinary compilation with configure,
you only have to specify the target:
> ./configure --with-mgl --build=i586-linux --host=i586-pc-msdosdjgpp
> make
If you want to build wxMGL natively using DJGPP compiler, you will have to install
a couple of Unix utilities. The easiest way to get them is to install the Cygwin
package (available from RedHat, see http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=cygwin for exact
URL). Cygwin contains win32 compiler, so make sure you did *not* install it! Once
you have Cygwin utilities and DJGPP compiler in your PATH, run bash.exe and type
> ./configure --with-mgl
> make
in wxWidgets top directory. You can build wxMGL in MS-DOS with configure, sorry.
* Building wxMGL for MS-DOS using Watcom C/C++
-----------------------------------------------
You will need Watcom C/C++ compiler version 11 or newer (Watcom is going to be
OpenSourced by SciTech, check out http://www.openwatcom.org).
1. Edit $(WXDIR)\include\wx\univ\setup.h to suit your needs (in same way as you
do when compiling wxMSW).
2. Go to $(WXDIR)\src\mgl and run
> wmake -f makefile.wat all
3. You can compile the samples by typing 'wmake -f makefile.mgl all' in sample
directory if this file is available. If it is not, copy makefile.wat to
makefile.mgl and replace the line that says
!include $(WXDIR)\src\makeprog.wat
with
!include $(WXDIR)\src\mgl\makeprog.wat
Bug reports
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Please send bug reports with a description of your environment,
compiler and the error message(s) to the wxwin-developers mailing list at:
wx-dev@lists.wxwindows.org
Vaclav Slavik, Julian Smart, Robert Roebling and Vadim Zeitlin, February 2002.