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Paul1234
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Problem compiling my own projects

Post by Paul1234 »

Hi all,

I installed wxWidgets with no problems using
./configure --with-x11 --with-opengl
make
make install
ldconfig


I then set LD_LIBRARY_PATH and CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH to the base directory.

I can 'make' all the sample projects and run them with no problems. However I then wrote a simple program and tried to compile using:
g++ MyProj.cpp 'wx-config --libs --cxxflags' -o MyProj

but I then get the error:
g++: wx-config --libs --cxxflags: no such file or directory

and a lot of errors below this. If I type wxconfig --libs --cxxflags at the command line it works fine and returns a string of options (I also tried copying these to the g++ command directly without success). Im using GCC 3.3.5 and KDE on slackware 10.1.

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks.
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Post by cg »

Hi,

wx-config is a shell script. You need to either put the full path to this script or add the directory it's in to your PATH.

HTH

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Post by benedicte »

g++ MyProj.cpp 'wx-config --libs --cxxflags' -o MyProj
is not a valid call.

you call a program (g++)
with params:
  • MyProj.cpp
    'wx-config --libs --cxxflags'
    -o MyProj
the second parameter is not valid because this is a full command line.
either you use a make file for compiling your cpp file, or you set explicitely all the flags needed by g++.

you may do 'man gcc' or 'man g++' to have the full list/description of options you can use.
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Post by cg »

its a valid command. you just need to change your ' to ` in order to have it execute the wx-config part in the shell.
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Post by Paul1234 »

Hi again,

Thanks for your replies. I had included the path already for wx-config and created a symbolic link to the script within /bin. Cg was right and it was just that I had used ' instead of ` :x . Anyway it compiles fine now without problems!

I wanted to use wxwidgets rather than QT because I will be writing an OpenGL program which will be used in both Linux and Windows.

Thanks again,

Paul.
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