Build wxWidgets from sln file

[gtafan]

Hi,
wxWidgets gives you Makefile in order to build the library.
Thank you.
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But which exactly Makefile you tallking about? There are some files with the name Makefile, but none of them can be opened with CB.

[ONEEYEMAN]

Hi,
Why do you want to OPEN it?

Check with C::B team on how to build wxWidgets from inside...

Thank you.

[gtafan]

Hi,
Why do you want to OPEN it?

Check with C::B team on how to build wxWidgets from inside...

Thank you.

Can you explain what exactly you mean by build wxWidgets from inside?

[ONEEYEMAN]

Hi,
In MSVC you can add the dependency project in the solution you are trying to build.

Just add wxWidgets source and include folder inside the C::B project.

Or ask CB team how to build wxWidgets itself from inside the IDE.

Or even better - use CMake thingy.

Thank you.

[gtafan]

Hi,
In MSVC you can add the dependency project in the solution you are trying to build.

Just add wxWidgets source and include folder inside the C::B project.

Or ask CB team how to build wxWidgets itself from inside the IDE.

Or even better - use CMake thingy.

Thank you.

But how to use CMake? Have not found CMakelist.txt.

[ONEEYEMAN]

Hi,
What version of wxWidgets do you have? On what platform? What version of CMake?
How did you search for the file?

Thank you.

[gtafan]

Hi,
What version of wxWidgets do you have? On what platform? What version of CMake?
How did you search for the file?

Thank you.

wxWidgets-3.0.5, platform is Windows, version of CMake 3.22.1 and I am searching in build\msw.

[ONEEYEMAN]

Hi,

Hi,
What version of wxWidgets do you have? On what platform? What version of CMake?
How did you search for the file?

Thank you.

wxWidgets-3.0.5, platform is Windows, version of CMake 3.22.1 and I am searching in build\msw.

Why?
Did you try the c:\wxWidgets?

Thank you.

[gtafan]

Why?
Did you try the c:\wxWidgets?

Thank you.

Yes I tried, but no CMakeLists.txt.

[doublemax@work]

wx 3.0.5 is pretty old, it didn't have official cmake support back then.

The current wx 3.2.1 does have a CMakeLists.txt

[gtafan]

While this seems to be a problem of CB in first place, really don´t understand the reason for having diferent build setings for Visual Studio and GCC.

I was able to build all samples from wxWidgets in CB using the coresponding vcprj files and the samples work fine.

[ONEEYEMAN]

Hi,
What do you mean "different build settings"?
Try to run "--configure--help" on Linux.

Thank you.

[gtafan]

Hi,
What do you mean "different build settings"?
Try to run "--configure--help" on Linux.

Thank you.

Was refering to Windows only, should be clear from the context of the question.

[ONEEYEMAN]

Hi,
In this case, open include\wx\msw\setup.h and see all the defines available.
But besides that, you can use dynamic/static, debug/release and up until now UNICODE/ASCII builds.
So there are different settings available to build wxWidgets...
But in you so unique and so unsupported case only one build setting is.

Thank you.

[PB]

Firstly, let me repeat my opinion: I think trying to build wxWidgets with Code::Blocks instead of any of the many supported, easy, and robust ways is counter-productive.

Be that as it may, I tried to build wxWidgets inside Code::Blocks using the simplest possible way: with CMake, using "CodeBlocks - MinGW Makefiles" generator.

1. I have installed CMake (v 3.24.1), C::B (v20.03) and MinGW (MSYS2 package mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain) and wxWidgets 3.2.1 sources.
2. I went to the wxWidgets folder and ran

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PATH=C:\msys64\mingw64\bin;C:\Program Files\CMake\bin\;%PATH%
cmake-gui -S . -B ..\wxWidgets-3.2.1-build-CB-msysgcc_x64_DLL-debug

where "..\wxWidgets-3.2.1-build-CB-msysgcc_x64_DLL-debug" is the out-of-source folder where wxWidgets will be built.
3. I pressed "Configure", selected "CodeBlocks - MinGW Makefiles" generator, the only thing I have changed in the build settings CMakeGUI was setting wxBUILD_SAMPLES to "SOME" and pressed Generate.

wxwidgets-cmakegui-cb.png (72.37 KiB) Viewed 1410 times

4. I have opened the generated project "wxWidgets.cbp", made sure it used my compiler configuration (I don't use the default GNU GCC Compiler) and pressed Build. After about twenty minutes, wxWidgets project (including a few samples) was successfully built.

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Once again, this is very impractical, among else "CodeBlocks - MinGW Makefiles" generator not supporting multiple targets at once (e.g., Debug and Release) and building by default with just one CPU core. Either way, the goal, i.e., "build wxWidgets with Code::Blocks" was achieved even if it was just a pointless exercise. For real use, I should have let CMake also install the wxWidgets and made sure that headers and both Debug and Release libraries are where expected.

Once again, I strongly advise against attempting to build wxWidgets inside C::B.