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William C. Yap | Compiling wxWidgets

Compiling wxWidgets

Compiling wxWidgets is not difficult. Here are instructions for compiling wxWidgets.
Windows

1. Download and install Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition.
2. Download the latest wxWidgets stable release for Windows (under "wxMSW"). I prefer the zip archive over the installer version.
3. Extract wxWidgets. For this example, I downloaded wxMSW-2.8.9.zip and extracted the "wxMSW-2.8.9" directory to "c:/dev/libs" (directories I created). My wxWidgets path is "c:/dev/libs/wxMSW-2.8.9/" . Yours may be different; adjust accordingly.
4. Open "wxMSW-2.8.9/build/msw/wx.dsw" . This should bring up Visual C++.
5. Choose one of the DLL build configurations under "Solution Configurations" in the toolbar. (Do not choose a "Universal" configuration, as this configuration is limited and does not use native widgets.)

I prefer to use the "DLL Unicode Debug" and "DLL Unicode Release" builds. wxWidgets 3 (The Next Generation) may only support Unicode builds, and not ANSI.

Furthermore, if you are contemplating using wxWidgets for a proprietary or closed source project, the LGPL license does not permit you to statically link your project. However, you may use dynamic linking via DLL's.
6. Right click on each project in the "Solution Explorer" and choose "Build".

Projects must be built in the following order:
jpeg
png
tiff
zlib
regex
expat
base
net
odbc
core
gl
html
media
qa
adv
dbgrid*
xrc
aui
richtext

*If dbgrid fails to build, make sure "dbgrid" is selected in Solution Explorer. Go to the "Project" menu / "Properties" / "Configuration Properties" / "Linker" / "Input". Under "Additional Dependencies", delete the entry "../../lib/vc_dll/wxbase28ud_odbc.lib". Attempt to build dbgrid again.
7. Go to the "Start" menu / "Control Panel" / "System" / "Advanced tab" / "Environment Variables" button.

Click on "New" and under "Variable name:" enter "wxwin".
Under "Variable value:" enter "c:/dev/libs/wxMSW-2.8.9" or the path to your wxWidgets base directory. Click on "OK".
8. If all has gone well, wxWidgets is fully compiled and ready for use. The following are important variables to feed into your compiler for your own apps:

Additional Include Directories: "($wxwin)/include" "($wxwin)/lib/vc_dll/mswud"
Additional Library Dependencies: "($wxwin)/lib/vc_dll"
9. That's it! Open the sample applications and compile them.