wxWidgets/debian/README.Debian
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wxwidgets for Debian
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The following packages are built from the wxWidgets CVS source.
libwxgtk wxGTK runtime shared libraries, including selected
contrib libs.
libwxgtk-dev extra files required for building wxGTK apps
libwxgtk-dbg wxGTK libraries built with -g and __WXDEBUG__
libwxgtk-python Python binding to wxGTK (from 2.2.3 onward, this
obsoletes the libwxgtk-python-contrib package as
all python modules are built into a single monolith)
wx-headers common header files for building wxWidgets apps
wx-doc HTML version of the wxWidgets manual
wx-examples wxWidgets and wxPython demos and samples (source)
wx-i18n message catalogs for native language support
Note that static libraries are no longer supplied in these
packages. Please read, or have understood:
http://people.redhat.com/drepper/no_static_linking.html
among others before reporting this as a bug.
The following binaries can be built from the source package
with the mingw32 cross compiler, but are not currently
distributed by Debian. If you feel that should change,
please file a bug against the wxwidgets2.6 package, or
append your views to a report already there if you're not
the first to do so.
[ you can check the current state of affairs at:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=wxwidgets2.6 ]
Oh and, please do *not* file bug reports for these packages
to the Debian bts. But do feel free to email me personally
if you find problems and/or have patches to fix them.
libwxmsw-dev mingw32-cross wxMSW libs.
libwxmsw-dbg mingw32-cross wxMSW (debug) libs.
wx-headers-msw extra headers needed for wxMSW.
You can build these extra packages using the binary-cross target
in debian/rules.
It is also possible to build a libwxgtk-dbg-python package.
There are some limitations (like this package cannot be installed
concurrently with the release version), but some developers may
find such a thing useful in any case. It will transparently
replace the release package for installed apps that depend on the
release package, but should NEVER be used when preparing packages
for upload. This package may be created from the source using the
binary-dbg-py target in debian/rules. (note that doing this will
also destroy any release build that exists in the same tree, they
cannot coexist there either yet)
Finally, because all of these packages can take quite some time to
build, the source package supports the use of distcc. The package
builds will automatically parallelise to suit the number of hosts
you have listed in DISTCC_HOSTS. This will work for both native
and cross builds of the c++ libraries, if you have the relevant
compilers on all your build hosts. wxPython builds cannot be
parallelised at this stage and will run serially regardless of
your configuration.
-- Ron Lee <ron@debian.org>, Sun, 13 Feb 2000 18:40:00 +1030