Re: [wxCode-users] Component packaging

[Otto W. <ott...@or...>]

>        I would like to ask you an advice about component packaging: I
> have almost completed some components (wxscript, wxxml2 and
> paletteframe) and I would like to allow the programmer who wants to
> use them to easily add to his projects... how could I do this:
> 
>  - should I config my component as a separated very very small library
> (useful when the component has many source files and maybe some
> complicated compile-settings...) ?
> 
> - should I distribute my component as an extension of wxWidgets
> library; that is, distributing modified wxWidgets makefiles to make my
> component part of the final library (useful for my paletteframe
> component, for example, which
> has the same wxWidgets folder structure [common, generic, msw, gtk,
> x11 ...] and thus different compile-setting for
> different operating systems...) ?
> 
> - should I just distribute the sources and tell the programmer to
> compile & link them together with his source files ?
> 
I haven't found a good way to integrate my components into wxWidgets so
I just distribute sources and leave it to the user how to integrate them.

Look once at treelistctrl. Only a single source and include file are
distributed so it's rather easy for a user. I use it in my wyoEditor
where I integrate it via an environment variable $WXCODE which points to
the wxCode/components directory.

The best is probably if you build your sample like an application
outside of wxCode so it's easy for a user to see how to do it. I've just
upgraded the treelistctrl sample to use the same structure.

O. Wyss

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