Ok I'm back. I believe I successfully compiled wxWidgets. I was able to make a project and I followed the first tutorial.
However, when I then tried to build the application, I'm getting an error in platform.h on line 196
error: wx/setup.h: no such file or directory
ok let me edit this. I found a tip somewhere that suggested I move the setup.h file from the msw folder to the wx folder, so I did.
This worked! However, I still get one final error when I build.
ld.exe cannot find -lwsmsw28ud
I don't know what this is but I'm looking for some info on it.