Re: [jazzplusplus-devel] Any thoughts on this ?

[Pete S. <pst...@ve...>]

KC = Kevin Cosgrove
KC>>> Do you know the relationship between wxWidgets and wxGTK?
KC>>> I've got the latter installed, of course the version is
KC>>> too old.

PS = Pete Stieber
PS>> Requires GTK 2.  Here's what I have installed on my
PS>> Fedora 8 box.  This is way more than what you need.
PS>> You need the gtk2-devel packages.

KC> Does that mean that wxWidgets built with gtk2 is
KC> equivalent to wxGTK, disregarding version numbers
KC> for the moment?

Yes.

KC> I'm trying to figure out a clean way to get wxGTK
KC> and wxWindows to coexist on my machine,

wxGTK is wxWidgets.  Note that Microsoft forced a name change. 
wxWindows is now wxWidgets.  wxWidgets built for the Microsoft Windows 
API is called wxMSW.  wxWidgets built using GTK is called wxGTK.

KC> and looking to the future when my distribution
KC> supplied wxGTK might fulfill the Jazz++
KC> requirements.

I think I understand.  Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) also 
uses wxWidgets and someone builds an RPM for both wxWidgets and Audacity 
that end up on the Fedora mirrors.  In this case, Audacity 
(audacity-1.3.2-17.fc8.x86_64) uses version 2.6.4 of wxWidgets installed 
as a package called compat-wxGTK26-2.6.4-0.8.x86_64.

There is also a more current version of wxWidgets (2.8.4) available on 
Fedora using GTK that is called wxGTK-2.8.4-6.fc8.x86_64.  We probably 
couldn't use that version because it is probably a stock build.

If I used shared objects from wxGTK, we might need something like 
jazz-wxGTK-2.8.7-0.1.x86_64, but I statically link with wxGTK.  We might 
just be able to distribute Jazz++ without a wxGTK (i.e. wxWidgets) 
distribution on Linux.

Hope that helps,
Pete