Re: [Mingw-users] To configure/make with MSYS or not?

[Kirk J. <kir...@gm...>]

>> 1. Use the included configure and make files through MSYS.

> This should be your preferred option.

Glad to hear it, as the other option sounded kind of dumb and seemed
to bypass the point of MSYS

> configure seems to support an option for specifying the boost location;
> what does 'configure --help' say about specifying wxWidgets location?

It has a similar option for wxWidgets but it hasn't been working. I'm
probably just doing something stupid.

Responding to a few points at once here because they're related...

> So, where did your build, via Code::Blocks, install wxWidgets?

> See: http://www.mingw.org/wiki/IncludePathHOWTO
> and: http://www.mingw.org/wiki/LibraryPathHOWTO (although incomplete)

> my preference is option #2, as described in the IncludePathHOWTO

I did not build wxWidgets through Code::Blocks. I built it from within
MSYS like this:
$ cd H:/wxWidgets-2.8.12/msys-build
$ ../configure --disable-shared --enable-unicode
$ make
$ make install

This seems to have installed wxWidgets into the usual Linux style
directories with respect to the MSYS root. When this happened, and
after reading and re-reading the HOWTOs, I decided to just try to use
the effective MSYS filesystem as my "option #2 (in the parlance of the
includePathHOWTO)" file tree. I think I finally understand that now,
having put my dependencies in the MSYS file system, I just need to add
-l and -L when I run my project's configure to make sure those
dependencies are found.

By the way, after I ran install make on wxWidgets the following
message was printed

"The installation of wxWidgets is finished. On certain
platforms (e.g. Linux) you'll now have to run ldconfig
if you installed a shared library and also modify the
LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or equivalent) environment variable."

I guess this is a way to not have to explicitly type -l and -L options?

> It's been a while since I last used wxWidgets; doesn't it install a
> wx-config script, which will tell you what -I and -L paths it expects?

There is indeed a wx-configure.in file. Typing config --help in the
wxWidgets directory prints an enormous amount of text so long that I
can't see most of it. I guess I need to learn how to filter.

Thanks for you help. I think I will figure this out now. I'll pipe up
if I really can't get it. Also, when I'm all done with this I will
very likely have suggestions for the docs and I'd be very happy to
contribute personally.

-kjoppy