Re: [Mingw-users] Problems with zlib and the mingw compiler

[Greg C. <gch...@sb...>]

On 2007-10-19 13:53Z, John E./ TDM wrote:
> 
> Greg Chicares <gchicares@...> writes:
>> My advice would be to follow the instructions you quoted above:
>> 
>> > other environments (such as UNIX or Unix-like, e.g. MSYS where you have
>> > to use configure instead, see the section below)
>> 
>> and build wx with MSYS. One advantage is that 'configure'
>> will test for gcc and report if it's not found. Another is
>> that you can use 'wx-config' (search the wx documentation)
>> to pass the configuration you built wx with to your program
>> that uses wx. Yet another is that you can customize wx by
>> passing arguments to 'configure', which is the easiest
>> approach to maintain--much easier than editing 'config.h'
>> every time you want to build a new wx version.
> 
> My advice would be *not* to do this. Building wxWidgets directly from the 
> command line is somewhat faster and quite a lot easier.

How is it easier than 'configure && make'?

> Finally, *editing 
> config.h is a very bad idea!*

Oops, I meant 'setup.h', or 'setup0.h' (I can't remember which),
but you're right: 'config.h' isn't the file to edit.