wxWidgets Discussion Forum

Splitting into a GUI and a headless control process certainly would have been the right design when I started. Unfortunately, I now have GUI control references scattered through the main app and 10 or so plugin DLLs (the main app can ask a plugin to display a configuration dialog, version info, etc....

I have a wxWidgets app that runs under Linux (GTK2) and Windows. The main thread does nothing but service the GUI which allows a user to set up various rules for processing 'events' generated by hardware devices, network connections, etc. Once the rules are constructed, worker threads do all the rea...

sue - I get the same errors. I think it's a known problem with gcc 4.2x under MinGW. If you do a Web search for 'mingw gcc thunk alias' you'll find other references and bug reports. In reading some of the posts, it appears someone produced a patch a year or more ago, but it wasn't applied to the mai...

I built wxWidgets 2.8.0 with current MinGW and gcc 3.4.5 using DialogBlocks and configuring for shared, monolithic. The build is successful, but there are a bunch of annoying warnings (warning: type attributes are honored only at type definition). Apparently a known problem. When I link and run a si...

Just for closure, to paraphrase the answer I received on the bakefiles mailing list.

You can't express source/header dependencies. It's assumed you'll be using native make tools that find dependencies dynamically.

Thanks, I figured that out after I posted here. Now I have twice the chance of getting a good answer, right? :D I also found a reference on the list to the undocumented <depends-on-file> tag which solves the problem for headers included by all sources, but I'm still hoping for help on making an obje...

OK, it doesn't get much simpler than this, but I can't find the answer. I'm trying to write a bakefile that will output a static MSVC makefile. The project has two source files, myfile1.cpp and myfile2.cpp. Each source file depends on a header file by the same name, myfile1.h and myfile2.h. Also, bo...

Thanks, Ryan. The sad part is, I haven't seen a failure, but I now have reports from two testers who say they have a crash or hang while backing up large directories or files with the new version of my app which uses wxZipStreams rather than calling zlib directly. It's likely I'm doing something wro...

I'm porting an app originally written in Borland Builder to wxWidgets. The BB version used a zlib/minizip library to produce zip files, but I've changed the code to use wxZipOutputStream. The new version seems to have problems producing very large archives (>1 GB). Small archives complete OK, but la...

Ryan, Can you tell me whether fromdll works for you using 2.5.4? I've reverted to 2.5.3 because all DLL based samples were crashing on my system when linked with 2.5.4, but are fine with 2.5.3. I've compared the config.vc and setup.h files and believe the two builds are configured identically, yet I...

What version of wxWidgets and what OS are you using?

The 'FromDLL' sample on the Wiki crashes when I link with MSW 2.5.4 DLLs, but works when I link with 2.5.3 DLLs.

Jerry

Good question - what targets does CMake support? Seems like it would be part of the FAQ, doesn't it? The Windows GUI lets you select these targets: Borland Makefile, NMake Makefile, Unix Makefile, VS 6, VS 7, NS7 Net2003, VS8 2005 And the installation has a 'platform' directory that contains these f...

Thanks for the information. >I wonder what 'mature' means in this context. bakefile appears to be developing and changing more quickly with updates occurring more frequently. CMake definitely seems to have been around longer - maybe 'older' rather than 'more mature'? :) Any comments on what features...

I think either of these tools would make my life easier. My question - which one to use? CMake appears to be a bit more mature with more complete documentation, but I assume bakefile has some features that the wx devs like since they adopted it rather than CMake. Anyone care to share their experienc...

>it would have to be optional
Right. The way I patched my makefile.vc was to set EXTRALIBS_FOR_BASE to strmiids.lib if USE_DIRECTSHOW=1.

Obviously, you know *much* better than I do the right way to handle such things, though.

Thanks for your replies.

Jerry