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User forums => Help => Topic started by: Arthur Dent on January 02, 2012, 12:12:02 pm

Title: New to Code::Blocks - WxWidgets Problem
Post by: Arthur Dent on January 02, 2012, 12:12:02 pm

Hello All,

I am just a casual hobbyist programmer. I have installed Code::Blocks having previously used KDevelop which is a bit OTT for my needs. I want to do some simple (very simple!) cross-platform C++ GUI apps.

I have installed Code::Blocks on my Fedora 16 machine which has the gcc toolchain already in place.
I have installed wxGTK and wxGTK-devel using yum.

When I try to compile a simple Hello World test project using wxsmith I get the following error:
fatal error: wx/app.h: No such file or directory

I'm sure I have left out a simple configuration step, but I can't for the life of me work out where...

Thank you in advance for any help and support.

Mark

Title: Re: New to Code::Blocks - WxWidgets Problem
Post by: oBFusCATed on January 02, 2012, 05:09:02 pm

Do you have the devel packages for wxWidgets?

Title: Re: New to Code::Blocks - WxWidgets Problem
Post by: Jenna on January 02, 2012, 05:28:28 pm

wxGTK-devel is the development package.
Do you have wx-config on your system ?
Type

Code

wx-config --list

Output should be something like:

Code

    Default config is gtk2-unicode-release-2.8

  Default config will be used for output

  Alternate matches:
    base-unicode-release-2.8

If you don't have wx-config, you have to install the appropriate package (I don't know, which one it is on fedora).

And if C::B was open after the first try (while installing the package including wx-config), you have to restart it (C::B) !

Title: Re: New to Code::Blocks - WxWidgets Problem
Post by: Arthur Dent on January 03, 2012, 04:54:42 pm

Hi Chaps,

Apologies for my slow reply to your rapid ones, but real-life got in the way I'm afraid.

Quote from: jens on January 02, 2012, 05:28:28 pm

And if C::B was open after the first try (while installing the package including wx-config), you have to restart it (C::B) !

Ooops! I think that was the problem - or at least I think I needed to logout and back in again after installing the extra packages. After I had done that everything seems to work just fine.

Thanks for the help and sorry for the noise. I'm off to try to play with C::B now!
Thanks again.

Mark