Re: [Wxlua-users] wxLua Compiles and works in Linux

[Francesco M. <f18...@ya...>]

Hi,

John Labenski wrote:
> wxLua now compiles and works completely in Linux. All you need to do is
> $cd wxLua/apps/wxlua/src
> $make bindings # generate cpp files from .i files in modules/wxbind
> $make # compile EVERYTHING needed for wxLua
Good !
I've just updated the bakefile build system to be able to build wxLua also from unix.
Much of the stuff was borrowed from wxCode build system: that's allow us to support all 
types/configurations of wxWidgets builds on at least MSW, linux, MacOS.

The build system is not perfect yet; I'm trying to look what's wrong in the bakefiles 
looking in your hand-written Makefile...



> The "make bindings" will eventually become unnecessary since the
> bindings have all the appropropriate #ifdefs to compile on any
> platform and version of wxWidgets, but I'd like to test a little more.
ok


> The previous problem was with the lines
> %win %class wxMessageDialog, wxDialog FIXME THIS DOES NOT WORK CURRENTLY
> %gtk|%mac %class %noclassinfo wxMessageDialog, wxDialog
> ...
> in dialogs.i that caused a problem in generating the wrappers.
> 
> I will try my hand with the bakefiles and get it going in MSW in the
> next few days.
perfect; now that I'm basically a linux user, I can help easily to keep unix version 
tested; if you keep win32 build system tested, then everything should work at 100% ;)


> 
> **************************************
> 
> wxLua devs, I am going to switch to using the SF version of wxLua
> exclusively, so lets try to keep the CVS always in a working state
> (accidents and little oops aside, we're human after all). I don't mind
> if any changes are made, even if they're significant and not backwards
> compatible, just write to the list before committing any changes so
> we'll know how to update own own stuff. If no one responds in a couple
> days, just ensure that the wxLua sample app works completely,
> including the samples and assume that no one minds. Remember, nothing
> is set in stone since the user group of wxLua (at least from the c++
> end) is pretty small, I think the lua side should probably remain the
> same as much as possible.
I agree; only I need some time to get bakefile build system completely working.

NOTE: where do we want to install wxLua libraries and headers on unix ?
$PREFIX/lib and $PREFIX/include seem a nice place for me, but we can consider also 
$PREFIX/lib/wxlua and $PREFIX/include/wxlua, specially if our lua headers/libs could give 
problems to other builds of lua installed in the same prefix...

Francesco


PS: I added wxLua link to wikipedia page for wxWidgets; I wonder if
1) we should move the page which is currently at http://www.luascript.thersgb.net/ to 
http://wxlua.sourceforge.net
  or
2) make a redirection from http://wxlua.sourceforge.net to http://www.luascript.thersgb.net/

?