[Wxlua-users] Re: wxLua on win32

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

Hi,

John Labenski ha scritto:
>>app_wxlua complains about wxStryledTextCtrl being nill, which is a lua
>>problem i think.
> 
> 
> Somehow linking to the wxStyledTextCtrl has been removed from the dsp
> files and that wxLUA_USE_wxStyledTextCtrl has been set to 0 in
> wxluasetup.h. 
Sorry; probably it was my fault.
I probably committed my local wxluasetup.h changes together with new 
makefiles.


 >By default these two MUST be on for the main wxLua app
> to run.
I think that wxLua should build out of the box against a properly 
installed wxWidgets. However contribs are not installed by default.
Nor there is a wxUSE_STC symbol anywhere in STC contrib which we can use 
to detect STC.

I think that:
1) we should make wxStyledTextCtrl optional, maybe replacing it with a 
less powerful editor...
2) add a check in configure script for its presence; if present 
configure should set the wxLUA_USE_wxStyledTextCtrl to 1 otherwise to 0.
This can be done only using wxluasetup.h.in -> wxluasetup.h.
I did try to move bindings/wxwidgets/wxluasetup.h.in to 
modules/wxbind/include but I've found that there is a CPP file 
(linternal.cpp IIRC) that uses wxluasetup.h.in directly. Why ?

More generally this problem (listed as #1 in my "Remaining problems" 
mail) can be solved only using configure checks at run-time, IMO.
This is because while all other features presence can be auto-recognized 
using wxUSE_* symbols, contrib libs and 3rd party code cannot.
What do you think ?


> You can turn them off in your version. This is why it so
> important that it's easy create different wxbind lib versions, one for
> the wxLua app and one for your own programs. I will try my hand with
> the new bakefile to link to stc again.
so the WXLUASETUP_DIR and WXLUABINDLIB_DIR options (point #7) must be 
made operational, right ?

I'll try this tomorrow...

Good night :)
Francesco