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A note about the Windows builds

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pjk:
Can I bring this thread back to the build process
 Quote from tiwag December 22, 2005, 12:48:42 PM

--- Quote ---The inconsistent usage of WX_CFG in these project files (sometimes set to "NonUnicode", sometimes set to "" ) is
really annoying and last not least a reason, why some ( less experienced ) users couldn't build a SVN version by themself.
--- End quote ---
As a less experience user who has been compiling the svn version I would like to suggest that as changes are made to the build process the build instructions in svn trunck should be kept reasonably up to date and a little more detailed. I don't think it needs quite the detail of thomas'  Compiling CodeBlocks for Windows ( ANSI and Unicode) from December 19, 2005, 10:47:44 AM - http://forums.codeblocks.org/index.php?topic=1701.0 , but the basic instructions.
It may be that you do not want to encourage less experience user to try the svn version, but I would have thought more testers would be better. From my point of view the features that interest me most are constantly improving and I want to be up to date with this.
The cause of most of my confusion was instructions about compiling wxwidgets with VENDOR=cb option and then moving to a seperate folder, which appears in many places in the wiki and the forum.
There does seem to be some sense in maintaining a specific codeblocks wxwidgets dll because you may not always want to compile codeblocks with the latest wxwidgets but may want it for other projects. Perhaps the best answer is to use a seperate tree forthe codeblocks version of wxwidgets (lib and include).

grv575:
Yeah that page has to be cleaned up.  It's a patchwork of many different ways of building over time.  The part about moving or renaming directories is not needed, as this can be done by passing CFG=Unicode or CFG=NonUnicode.  In addition, the CFG flag should probably be ommitted, unless you do want seperate codeblocks and other wxwidgets dlls -- just having Unicode and ANSI wxwidgets dlls in the same directory is supported and works fine.  Btw, it is a wiki, so anyone can make changes to it -- the reason it isn't always up to date like larger project (uhhh kde or something) is time commitment (although code improvements are rapidly added to the SVN repository in preparation for a 1.0 release).

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