1
2* The most simple case
3-----------------------
4
5If you compile wxWidgets on Linux for the first time and don't like to read 
6install instructions just do (in the base dir):
7
8> ./configure --with-wine
9> make
10> su <type root password>
11> make install
12> ldconfig
13> exit
14
15On all variants of Unix except Linux (and maybe except *BSD), shared libraries 
16are not supported out of the box due to the utter stupidity of libtool, so you'll 
17have to do this to get shared library support:
18
19> ./configure --with-wine --disable-unicode --disable-static --enable-shared
20
21Then you'll have to edit the wrongly created libtool script. There are two
22important entries with respect to shared library creation, which are
23
24  archive_cmds="\$LD -shared ....
25  archive_expsym_cmds="\$LD -shared ....
26  
27which should be something like
28
29  archive_cmds="\$CC -shared ....
30  archive_expsym_cmds="\$CC -shared ....
31  
32Afterwards you can continue with
33
34> make
35> su <type root password>
36> make install
37> ldconfig
38> exit
39
40If you want to remove wxWidgets on Unix you can do this:
41
42> su <type root password>
43> make uninstall
44> ldconfig
45> exit
46
47* The expert case
48-----------------
49
50If you want to do some more serious cross-platform programming with wxWidgets, 
51such as for GTK and Motif, you can now build two complete libraries and use 
52them concurrently. For this end, you have to create a directory for each build 
53of wxWidgets - you may also want to create different versions of wxWidgets
54and test them concurrently. Most typically, this would be a version configured 
55with --enable-debug_flag and one without. Note, that only one build can currently 
56be installed, so you'd have to use local version of the library for that purpose.
57For building three versions (one GTK, one WINE and a debug version of the WINE 
58source) you'd do this:
59
60md buildmotif
61cd buildmotif
62../configure --with-motif
63make
64cd ..
65
66md buildwine
67cd buildwine
68../configure --with-wine
69make
70cd ..
71
72md buildwined
73cd buildwined
74../configure --with-wine --enable-debug_flag
75make
76cd ..
77
78* The most simple errors
79------------------------
80
81wxWINE doesn't work yet as WINE isn't really up to the task yet. 
82
83You get errors during compilation: The reason is that you probably have a broken 
84compiler, which includes almost everything that is called gcc. If you use gcc 2.8 
85you have to disable optimisation as the compiler will give up with an internal 
86compiler error.
87
88If there is just any way for you to use egcs, use egcs. We cannot fix gcc.
89
90You get immediate segfault when starting any sample or application: This is either 
91due to having compiled the library with different flags or options than your program - 
92typically you might have the __WXDEBUG__ option set for the library but not for your 
93program - or due to using a broken compiler (and its optimisation) such as GCC 2.8.
94
95* The most simple program
96-------------------------
97
98Now create your super-application myfoo.app and compile anywhere with
99
100g++ myfoo.cpp `wx-config --libs --cflags` -o myfoo
101
102* General
103-----------------------
104
105The Unix variants of wxWidgets use GNU configure. If you have problems with your 
106make use GNU make instead.
107
108If you have general problems with installation, read my homepage at 
109
110  http://wesley.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~wxxt
111  
112for newest information. If you still don't have any success, please send a bug 
113report to one of our mailing lists (see my homepage) INCLUDING A DESCRIPTION OF 
114YOUR SYSTEM AND YOUR PROBLEM, SUCH AS YOUR VERSION OF WINE, WXWINE, WHAT DISTRIBUTION 
115YOU USE AND WHAT ERROR WAS REPORTED. I know this has no effect, but I tried...
116
117* GUI libraries
118-----------------------
119
120wxWidgets/WINE requires the WINE library to be installed on your system. 
121
122You can get the newest version of the WINE from the WINE homepage at:
123
124  http://www.winehq.com
125  
126* Create your configuration
127-----------------------------
128
129Usage:
130    ./configure options
131
132If you want to use system's C and C++ compiler,
133set environment variables CC and CCC as
134
135    % setenv CC cc
136    % setenv CCC CC
137    % ./configure options
138
139to see all the options please use:
140
141    ./configure --help
142
143The basic philosophy is that if you want to use different
144configurations, like a debug and a release version, 
145or use the same source tree on different systems,
146you have only to change the environment variable OSTYPE.
147(Sadly this variable is not set by default on some systems
148in some shells - on SGI's for example). So you will have to 
149set it there. This variable HAS to be set before starting 
150configure, so that it knows which system it tries to 
151configure for.
152
153Configure will complain if the system variable OSTYPE has 
154not been defined. And Make in some circumstances as well...
155
156
157* General options
158-------------------
159
160Given below are the commands to change the default behaviour,
161i.e. if it says "--disable-threads" it means that threads
162are enabled by default.
163
164Many of the configure options have been thoroughly tested
165in wxWidgets snapshot 6, but not yet all (ODBC not).
166
167You must do this by running configure with either of:
168
169    --with-wine              Use the WINE library
170    
171The following options handle the kind of library you want to build.
172
173    --enable-threads        Compile with thread support. Threads
174                            support is also required for the
175                            socket code to work.
176
177    --disable-shared        Do not create shared libraries.
178
179    --disable-optimise        Do not optimise the code. Can
180                            sometimes be useful for debugging
181                            and is required on some architectures
182                            such as Sun with gcc 2.8.X which
183                            would otherwise produce segvs.
184
185    --enable-profile        Add profiling info to the object 
186                            files. Currently broken, I think.
187                
188    --enable-no_rtti        Enable compilation without creation of
189                            C++ RTTI information in object files. 
190                            This will speed-up compilation and reduce 
191                            binary size.
192                
193    --enable-no_exceptions  Enable compilation without creation of
194                            C++ exception information in object files. 
195                            This will speed-up compilation and reduce 
196                            binary size. Also fewer crashes during the
197                            actual compilation...
198                
199    --enable-mem_tracing    Add built-in memory tracing. 
200                
201    --enable-dmalloc        Use the dmalloc memory debugger.
202                            Read more at www.letters.com/dmalloc/
203                
204    --enable-debug_info     Add debug info to object files and
205                            executables for use with debuggers
206                            such as gdb (or its many frontends).
207
208    --enable-debug_flag     Define __DEBUG__ and __WXDEBUG__ when
209                            compiling. This enable wxWidgets' very
210                            useful internal debugging tricks (such
211                            as automatically reporting illegal calls)
212                            to work. Note that program and library
213                            must be compiled with the same debug 
214                            options.
215
216* Feature Options
217-------------------
218
219Many of the configure options have been thoroughly tested
220in wxWidgets snapshot 6, but not yet all (ODBC not).
221
222When producing an executable that is linked statically with wxGTK
223you'll be surprised at its immense size. This can sometimes be
224drastically reduced by removing features from wxWidgets that 
225are not used in your program. The most relevant such features
226are
227
228    --without-libpng    Disables PNG image format code.
229    
230    --without-libjpeg    Disables JPEG image format code.
231    
232{   --without-odbc          Disables ODBC code. Not yet. }
233    
234    --disable-resources     Disables the use of *.wxr type
235                            resources.
236        
237    --disable-threads       Disables threads. Will also
238                            disable sockets.
239
240    --disable-sockets       Disables sockets.
241
242    --disable-dnd           Disables Drag'n'Drop.
243    
244    --disable-clipboard     Disables Clipboard.
245    
246    --disable-serial        Disables object instance serialisation.
247    
248    --disable-streams       Disables the wxStream classes.
249    
250    --disable-file          Disables the wxFile class.
251    
252    --disable-textfile      Disables the wxTextFile class.
253    
254    --disable-intl          Disables the internationalisation.
255    
256    --disable-validators    Disables validators.
257    
258    --disable-accel         Disables accel.
259    
260Apart from disabling certain features you can very often "strip"
261the program of its debugging information resulting in a significant
262reduction in size.
263
264* Compiling
265-------------
266
267The following must be done in the base directory (e.g. ~/wxGTK
268or ~/wxWin or whatever)
269
270Now the makefiles are created (by configure) and you can compile 
271the library by typing:
272
273    make
274
275make yourself some coffee, as it will take some time. On an old
276386SX possibly two weeks. During compilation, you'll get a few 
277warning messages depending in your compiler.
278
279If you want to be more selective, you can change into a specific
280directory and type "make" there.
281
282Then you may install the library and its header files under
283/usr/local/include/wx and /usr/local/lib respectively. You
284have to log in as root (i.e. run "su" and enter the root
285password) and type
286
287        make install    
288
289You can remove any traces of wxWidgets by typing
290
291        make uninstall
292    
293If you want to save disk space by removing unnecessary
294object-files:
295
296     make clean
297
298in the various directories will do the work for you.
299
300* Creating a new Project
301--------------------------
302
3031) The first way uses the installed libraries and header files
304automatically using wx-config
305
306g++ myfoo.cpp `wx-config --libs` `wx-config --cflags` -o myfoo
307
308Using this way, a make file for the minimal sample would look
309like this
310
311CC = g++
312
313minimal: minimal.o
314    $(CC) -o minimal minimal.o `wx-config --libs` 
315
316minimal.o: minimal.cpp mondrian.xpm
317    $(CC) `wx-config --cflags` -c minimal.cpp -o minimal.o
318
319clean: 
320    rm -f *.o minimal
321
322This is certain to become the standard way unless we decide
323to stick to tmake.
324
3252) The other way creates a project within the source code 
326directories of wxWidgets. For this endeavour, you'll need
327the usual number of GNU tools, at least
328
329GNU automake version 1.4
330GNU autoheader version 2.14
331GNU autoconf version 2.14
332GNU libtool version 1.3
333
334and quite possibly 
335
336GNU make
337GNU C++
338
339and if you have all this then you probably know enough to
340go ahead yourself :-)
341
342----------------------
343
344In the hope that it will be useful,
345
346        Robert Roebling <roebling@sun2.ruf.uni-freiburg.de>
347    
348
349Addition notes by Julian Smart, August 2002
350===========================================    
351
352I've fixed some compile errors, and got as far as
353compiling wxWINE, but actually linking a sample will take
354further work.
355
356To compile wxWINE, export these variables:
357
358export CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include/wine
359export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib/wine
360
361and configure with:
362
363configure --disable-static --enable-shared --enable-gui \
364 --with-wine --without-libpng --enable-debug_flag --enable-log \
365 --enable-debug_info --enable-ole --enable-clipboard --enable-dataobj \
366 --enable-debug --enable-threads --disable-sockets \
367 --with-libjpeg --enable-debug_cntxt
368
369Compiling a sample won't work yet because 'winebuild' needs
370to be called, and the resuling C file compiled and linked.
371Plus, Windows DLLs need to be imported.
372
373Note that the documentation on the WINE web site on using
374winebuild is out of date (August 2002) -- the spec file no
375longer supports import and type keywords. Instead look at
376samples in the WINE 'programs' directory for inspiration
377and compile options to use. It's probable that the
378wxWINE library will need recompiling with different options.
379
380Any progress on this front will be very welcome.
381
382Note that while wxWINE builds with --enable-unicode, samples
383don't run. Some samples will run when built with
384--disable-unicode, and others (such as auidemo) fail.
385
386