[Audacity-devel] wx linking problem

[Patrick R. <pro...@lo...>]

I've been working for a couple of days trying to get Audacity to
compile with a default "configure" but have run into a problem that I
just can't seem to track down, and I hope someone with wxWidgets
experience can help.  (Since this will be my first time using
wxWidgets).

Everything seems to compile fine, but in the final linking of the
audacity executable, I get of bunch of undefined references for wx,
mostly for the wxString and wxStringBase classes.   The link command
has:

-pthread -L/usr/X11R6/lib  -lwx_gtk2u_richtext-2.8 -lwx_gtk2u_aui-2.8
-lwx_gtk2u_xrc-2.8 -lwx_gtk2u_qa-2.8 -lwx_gtk2u_html-2.8
-lwx_gtk2u_adv-2.8 -lwx_gtk2u_core-2.8 -lwx_baseu_xml-2.8
-lwx_baseu_net-2.8 -lwx_baseu-2.8

Which it picks up from wx-config, and it can find the libs, and the
libs do contain the methods which the linker says it can't find.

I get a number of "warning: deprecated conversion from string constant
to 'wxChar*'
" but I don't think that has anything to do with it.

I thought it might have been a mangling issue, so I compiled and
installed wxGTK-2.8.8 from the source.  Still have the problem.

I'm using gcc version 4.2.3 (4.2.3-6mnb1)

Any help is appreciated.  (I want to stop fighting the build chain
start coding new features!)

Thanks,
Pat