Re: [wxhaskell-devel] The 'making wxC build on all platforms thread

[Jeremy O'D. <jer...@gm...>]

On 17 January 2012 22:40, Jeremy O'Donoghue <jer...@gm...>wrote:

> On 17 January 2012 21:38, Jeremy O'Donoghue <jer...@gm...>wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have collected together all of the people who I know are making the
>> effort to build Dave's latest code on different platforms. I'd also like to
>> introduce Andrej, who is testing wxC in the context of D (so could we go
>> easy on the Zygohistomorphic Premorphisms and other deep Haskell-ism in
>> this thread :-)
>>
>> I'd suggest that we try to pull together all of the experiences into a
>> single thread - makes it easier for people to keep up.
>>
>> For the moment, I'd like to bring up my experience with wxC on Windows:
>>
>> First, you need at least a patch to wx-config-win32 which sorts out
>> library names (msys libraries are incorrectly named due to a 2.8/2.9
>> change)
>>
>> At line 948 of wx-config-win.cpp, you need:
>> if (cfg["BUILD"] == “debug” && cfg["DEBUG_FLAG"] == “default”)
>> po["WXDEBUGFLAG"] = “”;
>>
>> if (cfg["DEBUG_FLAG"] == “1″)
>> po["WXDEBUGFLAG"] = “”;
>>
>>
>> Second, in wxc/Setup.hs you need to change line 82 (just after output
>> readProcess “wx-config” ["--libs", "std,gl,stc,xrc,richtext,aui,media",
>> "--cppflags"] “”
>>
>> This is needed because wx-config-win does not support the new ‘all’ flag,
>> and I haven’t had time to fix wx-config-win properly.
>>
>> Third, the library then builds for me, but fails to link (link errors in
>> StyledTextCtrl). I hope to work out why tonight or tomorrow.
>>
>>
>>
>
> I've worked out why, but haven't fixed it.
>
> wx-config-win doesn't know about some of the new libraries, and is giving
> incorrect results in other cases. I don't have time to fix this tonight,
> but:
>
> C:\usr\local\src\haskell\wxhaskell-dev\wxhaskell-2.9\wxc>wx-config --libs
> base,gl,xrc,richtext,aui,media returns
>  -mthreads -LD:\Builds\wxWidgets-2.9.3\lib\gcc_dll -lwxmsw29u_richtext
> -lwxmsw29u_gl -lopengl32 -lglu32 -lwxmsw29u_media -lwxbase29u -lwxtiff
> -lwxjpeg -lwxpng -lwxzlib -lwxregexu -lwxexpat -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32
> -lcomdlg32 -lwxregexu -lwinspool -lwinmm -lshell32 -lcomctl32 -lole32
> -loleaut32 -luuid -lrpcrt4 -ladvapi32 -lwsock32
>
> C:\usr\local\src\haskell\wxhaskell-dev\wxhaskell-2.9\wxc>wx-config --libs
> returns
>  -mthreads -LD:\Builds\wxWidgets-2.9.3\lib\gcc_dll -lwxmsw29u_html -lwxmsw29u_adv
> -lwxmsw29u_core -lwxbase29u_xml -lwxbase29u_net
> -lwxbase29u -lwxtiff -lwxjpeg -lwxpng -lwxzlib -lwxregexu -lwxexpat
> -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lcomdlg32 -lw xregexu -lwinspool -lwinmm
> -lshell32 -lcomctl32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -luuid -lrpcrt4 -ladvapi32
> -lwsock32
>
> Missing base libraries in red.
>
> I'll try to fix this tomorrow.
>
>

Quick status update - it's a bit more involved than I thought. I have coded
most of the changes needed to wx-config-win, but need to get them working.
C++ isn't like Haskell where things work first time once they compile, you
know :-)

ETA for wx-config-win update is now Friday night (GMT) - I have several
commitments tomorrow, so I won't do very much, I suspect.

Jeremy