Re: wxWidgets terminal commited

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> Timoth=E9e 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 tha=
t
> fit on two or three dozen floppies, and running X11 on it was considere=
d
> 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.

Two remarks :
wxWidgets lacks precompiled libraries. It is said to be the policy of its
developpers not to provide any binaries, because that would be unrighteou=
s
to do that for one platform (likely Windows) but not others.
You seem to have compiled wxWidgets as shared libraries. You can also
compile it statically in gnuplot. That's what I have done for all the
snapshots that I provided on sourceforge.

> 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.

Fortunately, we have precompiled binaries for all of these on Windows !
The following page helped me to find them :
http://www.freeciv.org/index.php/Install-Windows

By the way, the only problem I had with pkg-config was to set up the path
correctly. Is it also what you mean by forcing pkg-config to work ?

> And that's before I even begin investigating the possibility of using m=
y
> 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.

On the wxWidgets wiki, OpenWatcom is reported to work.

> So, lots of new things to discover.

I guess it is the price to pay to use these great toys. I just hope it is
not too expensive.

Timoth=E9e