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@ -192,6 +192,9 @@ We are using the <a href="cvs.htm">CVS</a> system to develop and maintain wxWind
us to make alterations and upload them instantly to the server in Edinburgh, from
which others can update their source.<P>
To build source from CVS, see the file BuildCVS.txt in the top-level wxWindows distribution
directory.<P>
<H3>How is wxWindows 2 distributed?</H3>
By ftp, and via the <a href="cdrom2.htm">wxWindows CD-ROM</a>.<P>
@ -203,8 +206,8 @@ finished?) to think very far ahead. However, we know we want to make wxWindows a
and well-publicised as possible. We also want to aim for better platform-independence of
resources such as icons and bitmaps, standardising on the PNG for all platforms.<P>
Other possibilities include: DCOM/CORBA compatibility; a wxWindows book; an
<a href="http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/wxide.htm">IDE</a>;
Other possibilities include: DCOM/CORBA compatibility; a wxWindows book;
<a href="http://wxstudio.linuxbox.com/">wxStudio</a>, an IDE;
other platforms; other interface abilities such as speech output.<P>
We will investigate the possibility of compiler or operating system vendors bundling wxWindows with

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@ -166,6 +166,79 @@ optimized. For example, in wxWindows project, set to 'Minimum
Size'. In Dialog Editor project, set to 'Customize: Favor Small
Code' (and no others). This will then work.<P>
<H3>How are the wxWindows makefiles edited under Windows?</H3>
As of wxWindows 2.1, there is a new system written by Vadim Zeitlin, that
generates the makefiles from templates using tmake.<P>
Here are Vadim's notes:<P>
<blockquote>
To use these new makefiles, you don't need anything (but see below).
However, you should NOT modify them because these files will be
rewritten when I regenerate them using tmake the next time. So, if
you find a problem with any of these makefiles (say, makefile.b32)
you'll need to modify the corresponding template (b32.t in this
example) and regenerate the makefile using tmake.<P>
tmake can be found at
<a href="http://www.troll.no/freebies/tmake.html" target=_new>www.troll.no/freebies/tmake.html</a>.
It's a Perl5 program and so it needs Perl (doh). There is a binary for
Windows (available from the same page), but I haven't used it, so
I don't know if it works as flawlessly as "perl tmake" does (note
for people knowing Perl: don't try to run tmake with -w, it won't
do you any good). Using it extremely simple: to regenerate makefile.b32
just go to distrib/msw/tmake and type<P>
<pre>tmake -t b32 wxwin.pro -o ../../src/msw/makefile.b32</pre><P>
The makefiles are untested - I don't have any of Borland, Watcom or
Symantec and I don't have enough diskspace to recompile even with
VC6 using makefiles. The new makefiles are as close as possible to the
old ones, but not closer: in fact, there has been many strange things
(should I say bugs?) in some of makefiles, some files were not compiled
without any reason etc. Please test them and notify me about any problems.
Better yet, modify the template files to generate the correct makefiles
and check them in.<P>
The templates are described in tmake ref manual (1-2 pages of text)
and are quite simple. They do contain some Perl code, but my Perl is
primitive (very C like) so it should be possible for anybody to make
trivial modifications to it (I hope that only trivial modifications
will be needed). I've tagged the ol makefiles as MAKEFILES_WITHOUT_TMAKE
in the cvs, so you can always retrieve them and compare the new ones,
this will make it easier to solve the problems you might have.<P>
Another important file is filelist.txt: it contains the list of all
files to be compiled. Some of them are only compiled in 16/32 bit mode.
Some other are only compiled with some compilers (others can't compile
them) - all this info is contained in this file.<P>
So now adding a new file to wxWindows is as easy as modifying filelist.txt
(and Makefile.ams for Unix ports) and regenerating the makefiles - no
need to modify all files manually any more.<P>
Finally, there is also a file vc6.t which I use myself: this one
generates a project file for VC++ 6.0 (I didn't create vc5.t because
I don't need it and can't test it, but it should be trivial to create
one from vc6.t - probably the only things to change would be the
version number in the very beginning and the /Z option - VC5 doesn't
support edit-and=continue). This is not an officially supported way
of building wxWindows (that is, nobody guarantees that it will work),
but it has been very useful to me and I hope it will be also for
others. To generate wxWindows.dsp run<P>
<pre>tmake -t vc6 wxwin.pro -o ../../wxWindows.dsp</pre><P>
Then just include this project in any workspace or open it from VC IDE
and it will create a new workspace for you.<P>
If all goes well, I'm planning to create a template file for Makefile.ams
under src/gtk and src/motif and also replace all makefiles in the samples
subdirectories with the project files from which all the others will be
generated. At least it will divide the number of files in samples
directory by 10 (and the number of files to be maintained too).
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