Re: [Wxdevide-devs] discussing wxDevIDE publicly

[Tony R. <re...@al...>]

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> As mentioned in my reply to Tony, if it is a simple change to paths etc.
> then we could offer a "Running under Wine" option which could implement the
> changes in Linux/Wine for the user.
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To expand on what is needed for the makefile:

Nuklear and I found that wxWidgets under Linux has a nice program called
"wx-config" which "asks" the runtime wxWidgets libraries what flags they
were built with (e.g. monolithic, exceptions, debug/releae, unicode/ansi,
etc.). So instead of a makefile that looks like this:

CPP = g++.exe
CC = gcc.exe
LIBS      = -L"C:/Program Files/Dev-Cpp/Lib" -lwxmsw28_stc -mwindows
-lwxmsw28 -lwxmsw28_gl -lwxtiff -lwxjpeg -lwxpng -lwxzlib -lwxregex
-lwxexpat -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lcomdlg32 -lwinspool -lwinmm
-lshell32 -lcomctl32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -luuid -lrpcrt4 -ladvapi32 -lwsock32
-lodbc32 -lopengl32
INCS      = -I"C:/Program Files/Dev-Cpp/Include"

we'd have something that look like this:

CPP = `wx-config --cc`
CC = `wx-config --cpp`
LIBS =`wx-config --wxlibs`
CXXINCS =`wx-config --cxxflags`

As you can see, it's an abstraction of the current makefile that just calls
"wx-config" at build time. What's brilliant is that we'd be able to use
anyone's wxWidgets build (and not have to keep producing our own devpaks).
wx-config would just query the unknown lib about what flags it needs.

There's an open-source project (http://wxconfig.googlepages.com/) that has
ported wx-config to windows. However, we still have the problem that
backticks `` aren't handled in Windows makefiles. This would require a work
around where we would call wx-config directly from wxDev-C++ at makefile
generation time to get the correct compiler types/flags/etc.

I'd like to see the wx-config approach used in wxDevIDE, but hesitate to add
it to wxDev-C++. Instead it might be good just to give the end-user the
information in a Wiki (tutorial) and just let them manually modify the
makefile. However, currently I don't have a Linux box to test things on or
write more specific instructions. Nuklear and I last tested on 6.10.2
probably more than a year or two ago. No idea how the new plugin version
will work.

-Tony