wxWidgets 2.4.2 (MSW, GCC) installation instructions

[rickg22]

Finally I made a step-by-step tutorial on installing and configuring wxWidgets 2.4.2 under Microsoft Windows (TM).

Enjoy!

[mandrav]

Great stuff Rick
I just added a note that MSYS is not actually required... It works just the same without it

Yiannis.

[rickg22]

Um, then my setup's the one not working  So how can I compile wxWidgets WITHOUT msys?

[mandrav]

But, you 're using nothing MSYS-specific. Just 'cd' and 'mingw32-make'. Did I miss something? I read it very carefully.
And I don't have MSYS installed here...

Yiannis.

[cyberkoa]

I manage to compile codeblock but get a few warnings . And when I try to run it , the normal windows error message pop "codeblocks.exe is causing error .. "

However , I do not follow exactly the steps in wiki , in fact I am testing the options 2 .
 
I plan to reinstall MSYS , MingW and wxwidgets-2.4.2 , and build again .

Just have a question , if I compile the wxwidgets with UNICODE=1 , will there be any problem ? because I may want to build Unicode application with the wxwidgets.

Thanks for all the guidance , if I manage to compile successfully with the options 2 , I shall add in the wiki later.

[Anonymous]

I hv tried again but still failed.

Therefore, I decided to use the method in wiki , however, I got the same result.  (I deleted the CVS and download again)

Still trying to figure out what had happened.

[David Perfors]

I try to compile wx2.4.2 according the manual, but ut says it couldn't find setup.h

Code

cp ../../include/wx/msw/setup.h ../../lib/mswdlld/wx/setup.h
process_begin: CreateProcess((null), cp ../../include/wx/msw/setup.h ../../lib/mswdlld/wx/setup.h, ...) failed.
make (e=2): The system cannot find the file specified.
mingw32-make: *** [../../lib/mswdlld/wx/setup.h] Error 2

It is a complete fresh install (wxAll). Any ideas?

--edit--
I see what the problem is, no cp.exe
Solution: get the extra.zip package (probably only when you didn't install msys)

[rickg22]

Cool! Can you put that in the wiki, too?

[mandrav]

I see what the problem is, no cp.exe Smile
Solution: get the extra.zip package (probably only when you didn't install msys)

That's why I missed it!
With C::B full install we supply cp.exe and, if I remember correctly, I *think* I have posted a link to extra.zip some time ago...

Thanks mispunt

Yiannis.

[David Perfors]

updated, perhaps it is possible to remove the msys completly?

[mandrav]

updated, perhaps it is possible to remove the msys completly?

Sure thing. Go on and edit it.

Yiannis.

[David Perfors]

Two things:
Thirst, I can't reach the wiki page via the menu (it is edit only)
Secons, where do I have to set ${WX_VER}? It should be set somewhere, but I don't know where.

[rickg22]

The tutorial linked to a non-existent version of the wx242 article. Fixed. Now you can edit the wiki

NOTE: You have to sign up for the wiki (it uses a different login than the forums')

Update: I just changed the "Setup MSYS" section. But the part about building wxWidgets still needs to be updated.

[Anonymous]

Two things:
Thirst, I can't reach the wiki page via the menu (it is edit only)
Secons, where do I have to set ${WX_VER}? It should be set somewhere, but I don't know where.

You can set it under menu "Project" > build option > Custom variable

add in a variable WX_VER and value 242

I added in when I encounter a failure compiling one of the plugin yesterday. Today , re download from CVS, the project files already added in this variable.

[cyberkoa]

forget to login when replying  ... it's me

[cyberkoa]

I have managed to compile and run C::B, by setting the path   , I have written the steps in one of the post below

http://www.codeblocks.org/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=362&start=15

I do not modify the wiki because after compilation , it needs some tweak to make the CB run . I am not sure whether is because my steps is not totally correct .

Hope it helps.

[CarlYoung]

Two things:
Thirst, I can't reach the wiki page via the menu (it is edit only)
Secons, where do I have to set ${WX_VER}? It should be set somewhere, but I don't know where.

You can set it under menu "Project" > build option > Custom variable

add in a variable WX_VER and value 242

I added in when I encounter a failure compiling one of the plugin yesterday. Today , re download from CVS, the project files already added in this variable.

I downloaded the source today (to add OpenWatcom support), and I had the same problem with WX_VER. I thought it was trying to get it from the environment, but I see it wasn't...

I also had build errors trying to locate ..\..\..\MingW\include as a relative path in the src project (compiler options...directories...resource compiler) as I obviously installed my C::B one level deeper than the original developer.

I'm now up and running and have a debuggable C::B (after downloading zip.exe from info-zip  :oops: ).

Nice product! Regards,

Carl

[CarlYoung]

I downloaded the source today (to add OpenWatcom support), and I had the same problem with WX_VER. I thought it was trying to get it from the environment, but I see it wasn't...

Sorry, it appears I was wrong. I did have the updated Makefile with WX_VER=242 in it but I was still getting errors related to "can't find libwxmsw$(WX_VER).a".

I'm wondering if this was related to my source code being one layer lower in a folder hierarchy than the original. I moved to /dev/codeblocks and it all worked first build...

Carl

[mandrav]

I downloaded the source today (to add OpenWatcom support)

I just did
I will commit the changes later, after I run some tests.

Yiannis.

[squizzz]

Yup, I finally managed to build CVS version of C::B (hoooray! under Windows.

First of all, big thanks for this Wiki article - it was extremely helpful resource I would surely perish without. :mrgreen:

Then, still I encountered 2 little problems, that are not mentioned in the Wiki. Maybe this can somehow help other people.

1) WX_VER problem. It is described in this very thread, but still seems to exist in CVS version. I don't know where WX_VER variable is set (I haven't found it under Build options->Custom variables), but it seems that $(WX_VER) produces 2.4.2 (2.6.1 respectively) instead of 242 (261), so I got:

Linking dynamic library: devel\codeblocks.dll
E:\progs\dev\MinGW\bin\..\lib\gcc\mingw32\3.4.2\..\..\..\..\mingw32\bin\ld.exe: cannot find -lwxmsw2.4.2
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

wxWidgets 2.4.2 compilation (if followed as described in Wiki) produces: libwxmsw242.a

2) Hmmm. Somehow I was aware to run update.bat in order to create zipped resource files and put them into right places, but it would be nice to mention this, too.
However, it was not the problem that I encountered.
You might find this funny, but... it took me quite a moment to set up zip command that is compatible with update script! (that uses -j switch). Maybe it was just my almighty luck (tm) that I used bunch of wrong command-line zip tools (even gzip shipped with extra.zip package didn't make it), but in case someone also have trouble with this - one of these tools should help. This one worked fine for me - just unpack somewhere, and point to its zip.exe in C::B  update.bat script (i.e set ZIPCMD=c:\zip\zip.exe).

Again, thanks for great IDE.


Btw. I found out that compiler option "Stop compiling after first error"  always seem to produce error (I use MinGW)

cc1plus.exe: error: unrecognized command line option "-Wfatal-errors"

[CrayzeeIvan]

You can set the WX_VER variable in the "Build options", in the "Custom variables" tab. Just add a variable name WX_VER and set its value to 242 -> you're done. My problem with it was a little different though, the error was it couldn't find the library "wxmsw$(WX_VER)", so the var wasn't defined at all...
So I second your request, this should be documented somewhere, took me some time to find it out
The zip problem also applied with me, but I just searched my HD for "zip.exe" and was lucky enough to find one that worked -- dunno where though

[CrayzeeIvan]

Okay, I added a page to the "Tipps 'n Tricks" section of the wiki, to be found here: http://codeblocks.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Setting_the_WX_VER_variable