Re: [wxVTK] Basic Question. Compiling on Linux and Windows.

[R S <gri...@ho...>]

Thanks a bunch for the help! No wonder wxVTK python was so easy to use. Hopefully the wx guys will make some concessions. Thanks a lot!


RS

> CC: gri...@ho...; wxv...@li...
> From: nie...@st...
> To: mat...@gm...
> Subject: Re: [wxVTK] Basic Question. Compiling on Linux and Windows.
> Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:45:14 +0200
> 
> For gtk2 the situation is a bit less troublesome if you make use of  
> pkg-config.
> For our project I add the output of `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0` to  
> the CPPFLAGS together with -I/usr/X11R6/include and add -lgdk-x11-2.0  
> as an additional library to link to.
> The use of pkg-config saves you the trouble of enumerating all the -I  
> paths for gtk2 yourself.
> 
> However, this is all without using CMake.
> 
> Best regards,
> Sander
> 
> On 11 jun 2008, at 09:44, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> 
> > Hi RS,
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 1:04 AM, R S <gri...@ho...> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> This is probably a basic question for all of you, I would like to  
> >> use wxVTK
> >> in my own project. I tried to include the source files directly in my
> >> project but I gave up because I had to add all the gtk  
> >> dependencies, headers
> >> and what not to the project which I don't really want to do because  
> >> I am
> >> using wx.
> >
> > Yeah I know, I can give you all the details for this one. For  
> > instance:
> >
> > http://lists.wxwidgets.org/pipermail/wx-dev/2004-September/050814.html
> >
> > I have been begging since 2004 for just *ONE* hook in the wxWidgets
> > library, and they have consistently refuse. Basically they are not
> > happy that I want to access the XWindow pointer on UNIX to open a
> > window. There point of view if if you are using wx-gtk1 you need to
> > know that internally you have open a gtk1 window, and if you want to
> > access anything hidden in gtk1, then YOU need to include all the gtk1
> > headers, same goes for gtk2...
> > So the real problem is that that port that most people use on *NIX is
> > a double indirection on top of X11, and wx people only probivde access
> > to the first indirection layer.
> >
> > the thing that really pi*** me off, is that Robert Roebling has made
> > this hook available in his python-wx library (the python code of wxVTK
> > is actually cleaner than the c++ library and does not require
> > importing anything from gtk*).
> >
> > Actually if you have python-wx installed on your machine you could
> > call this python function :-P
> >
> >> So I did the standard cmake compilation but that pretty much builds  
> >> the
> >> samples and leaves with only an object file burried deep in the  
> >> directory
> >> structure.
> >
> > I cannot simply make a library made of a single class, the overhead is
> > AFAIK way too high (dll initialization, static linking...). Therefore
> > I assumed people would just simply integrate the single C++ class
> > directly into there project. (*)
> >
> >> How can I compile it into a static or dynamic library on linux to  
> >> include it
> >> into my project? OR how can I add it to my project without going  
> >> through the
> >> whole gtk run around?
> >
> > Suscribe to wx-dev mailing list, and tell them your story...
> >
> >> I am newbie to cmake so if there is a simple command... don't  
> >> scream at me
> >
> > No that's not a cmake issue, you HAVE TO (last time I checked) include
> > the gtk header to be able to extract the XWindow pointer from a
> > GTKWindow pointer.
> >
> > HTH
> > -- 
> > Mathieu
> > (*) There is also a nasty problem due to my initial design, the wxVTK
> > class has multiple inheritance which make it actually difficult to
> > wrap in a shared/static library...
> >
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