Re: wxWidgets terminal commited

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Timothée Lecomte wrote:
> After 11 months of development, the wxWidgets has landed to the CVS ! 

(Belated) congratulations from me, too.

To explain why it took me so long: I tried to build this thing before 
commenting any further.  On Win32, just to make it bit more interesing. 
  Gosh --- I haven't had to download and install so many other packages 
to compile a single one since the days a Linux distro was something that 
fit on two or three dozen floppies, and running X11 on it was considered 
an extravagant option.

Let's see: so I had to get wxWidgets, obviously.  Getting that to 
compile was, ... tricky.  And its "make install" doesn't work --- puts 
the DLLs in $(prefix)/lib place where wgnuplot.exe doesn't find them. 
Windows tradition is to put DLLs in a the same place as the executables, 
since they'll be searched along the PATH.

On top of that then I needed to add to my MSYS/MinGW installation: 
pkg-config, fontconfig, glib, cairo, pango, libpng (had it already, but 
not "libpng13", and no pkg-config file), gettext, libiconv.  I 
eventually gave up on building cairo and pango from source.  Now that I 
forced pkg-config to work, maybe I'll revisit cairo.

And that's before I even begin investigating the possibility of using my 
now favourite Windows C/C++ compiler, OpenWatcom, to do this job.  I'm 
not even sure how to compile wxWidgets with that, yet.  I may have to 
dogde that and use MinGW-compiled DLLs with an OW-compiled wgnuplot.

So, lots of new things to discover.