Re: wxWidgets terminal commited

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Timothée Lecomte wrote:

> You seem to have compiled wxWidgets as shared libraries. You can also
> compile it statically in gnuplot. 

I'm aware of that.  But I really don't think a library of this size is 
suitable for static linking.  It's simply too huge for that.

[cairo, pango & friends...]

> Fortunately, we have precompiled binaries for all of these on Windows !

Yes.  But what kind of a developer uses prebuilt binaries (and outdated 
ones, at that), where source is available?

> 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 ?

pkg-config is actually quite clever.  But the main problem was that some 
packages I wanted to build insisted on having a "libpng13" --- but the 
only package I found that actually provided a pkg-config entry under 
that name appears not to be a native Win32 (--> MinGW32) version.

And then of course there's that chicken-and-egg problem between 
pkg-config and glib...

> On the wxWidgets wiki, OpenWatcom is reported to work.

Yes --- I discovered the relevant files in the meantime.  But it appears 
to be only a limited part of the overall functionality.  Anyway, the 
true challenge for OpenWatcom will be to build or at least use all that 
Cairo/Pango stuff.