[Reduce-algebra-developers] wxWidgets...

[Arthur N. <ac...@ca...>]

I have put a *PATCHED* set of wxWidgets sources in 
trunk/csl/support-patches and so feel I should record what I have done and 
why. The changes are to provide what I hope is a nicer interface for 
registering application specific fonts, and to make those available with 
wxGraphicsContext under Windows. This does not apply to the default built 
of CSL-reduce - just to what happens if you go ./configure --with-csl 
--with-wx to get my experimental unfinished development version. I have 
tried submitting my changes to wxWidgets so I hope that at some stage they 
will adopt them or provide their own better solution.

Now compiling wxWidgets takes a reasonable age - especially on Windows 
using cygwin's i686-w64-mingw32-g++. Thus I try to avoid it getting 
compiled at all often since I hope and expect it to remain stable. But to 
get the new snapshot this is what you need to do
    cd ..../trunk
    rm -rf csl/wxWidgets
    ./configure --with-csl --with-wxWidgets

The configure step will spot that the unpacked directory of wxWidgets 
sources is not in the csl directory so will find a .tar.bz2 file in 
csl/support-packages and unpack it and configure it. One thing to note is 
that the survive with my patch on a Windows machine you *MUST* arrange to 
have gdiplus headers where your C compiler can find them. The 
i686-w64-mingw32 set of headers at the time of sending this message seem 
not to so I needed to copy some in from elsewhere. If you do not pay 
attention to this then wxWidgets will configure without support for 
wxGraphicsContext and the stuff I am now developing will not even build.

              Arthur