wxnet for under $1000
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 11:04 pm
Hi again,
So going through the windows build process I didn't want to use VS.net to
compile. I use SharpDevelop for C# and Dev-CPP for C++ and C development -
and *almost* have the wx-c and wx.net dlls compiling in these. I figure I
should share the directions so far so that people who haven't forked over
the $$ for visual studio and don't have access to a linux box can still
compile wxnet
This uses free software.
In the build instructions, when you run into "open the sln file" ... stop!
Grab SharpDevelop if you don't have it, and use File->Import to load the
sln file. You'll get a warning that it can't load wx-c, that's fine
because we're gonna use Dev-cpp for that
Before you compile it you have to make sure it can find keys.snk - I just
copied it 2 directories up from the Bin directory, and then it was happy.
For wx-c, follow the instructions to set Dev-CPP up for compiling with
MinGW/wxWidgets here: http://www.wxwindows.org/devcpp.htm
Then create a new empty C++ DLL project, and add all the cxx files from the wx-c
directory.
Under project options, setup the library/include/resource directories for wxWidgets, and set the parameters to
"-DWXMAKINGDLL -DWIN32 -D_WINDOWS -DWINVER=0x400 -D_MT -DwxUSE_GUI=1 -DWXUSINGDLL -DWXNET_DISPLAY -DWXNET_STYLEDTEXTCTRL -DWXMAKINGDLL_STC -DWXNET_XMLRESOURCE -D_DEBUG -D__WXDEBUG -DWXDEBUG=1"
(without the quotes)
When you compile, you'll get the error: "C:\Dev-Cpp\Makefile.win
[Build Error] [wx-c.dll] Error 255"
The input line is too long.
...so the last step has to be done manually, by copying and pasting the command from the compile log and making a bat file to do it. Take out all the "../wxNET/wx.NET/Src/wx-c/xmlresource.o ../wxNET/wx.NET/Src/wx-c/app.o ../wxNET/wx.NET/Src/wx-c/artprovider.o" etc and replace it with *.o open a command prompt and run the bat from the wx-c directory.
I'm stuck at this step, it crunches away for a little while then the errors roll, my .bat file looks like this:
dllwrap.exe --output-def libwx-c.def --driver-name c++ --implib libwx-c.a *.o C:\Dev-Cpp\wx-c_private.res -L"C:/MinGW/lib" -L"C:/wxWidgets-2.5.2/lib/vc_lib" -L"C:/wxWidgets-2.5.2/lib/vc_lib/mswd" -L"C:/wxWidgets-2.5.2/lib" --no-export-all-symbols --add-stdcall-alias -o wx-c.dll
I think it's some little configuration problem, though.. should have it solved shortly...
Hope this helps! I'm going through all this because I need wxTaskbarIcon...
Pete
So going through the windows build process I didn't want to use VS.net to
compile. I use SharpDevelop for C# and Dev-CPP for C++ and C development -
and *almost* have the wx-c and wx.net dlls compiling in these. I figure I
should share the directions so far so that people who haven't forked over
the $$ for visual studio and don't have access to a linux box can still
compile wxnet
This uses free software.In the build instructions, when you run into "open the sln file" ... stop!
Grab SharpDevelop if you don't have it, and use File->Import to load the
sln file. You'll get a warning that it can't load wx-c, that's fine
because we're gonna use Dev-cpp for that
Before you compile it you have to make sure it can find keys.snk - I just
copied it 2 directories up from the Bin directory, and then it was happy.
For wx-c, follow the instructions to set Dev-CPP up for compiling with
MinGW/wxWidgets here: http://www.wxwindows.org/devcpp.htm
Then create a new empty C++ DLL project, and add all the cxx files from the wx-c
directory.
Under project options, setup the library/include/resource directories for wxWidgets, and set the parameters to
"-DWXMAKINGDLL -DWIN32 -D_WINDOWS -DWINVER=0x400 -D_MT -DwxUSE_GUI=1 -DWXUSINGDLL -DWXNET_DISPLAY -DWXNET_STYLEDTEXTCTRL -DWXMAKINGDLL_STC -DWXNET_XMLRESOURCE -D_DEBUG -D__WXDEBUG -DWXDEBUG=1"
(without the quotes)
When you compile, you'll get the error: "C:\Dev-Cpp\Makefile.win
[Build Error] [wx-c.dll] Error 255"
The input line is too long.
...so the last step has to be done manually, by copying and pasting the command from the compile log and making a bat file to do it. Take out all the "../wxNET/wx.NET/Src/wx-c/xmlresource.o ../wxNET/wx.NET/Src/wx-c/app.o ../wxNET/wx.NET/Src/wx-c/artprovider.o" etc and replace it with *.o open a command prompt and run the bat from the wx-c directory.
I'm stuck at this step, it crunches away for a little while then the errors roll, my .bat file looks like this:
dllwrap.exe --output-def libwx-c.def --driver-name c++ --implib libwx-c.a *.o C:\Dev-Cpp\wx-c_private.res -L"C:/MinGW/lib" -L"C:/wxWidgets-2.5.2/lib/vc_lib" -L"C:/wxWidgets-2.5.2/lib/vc_lib/mswd" -L"C:/wxWidgets-2.5.2/lib" --no-export-all-symbols --add-stdcall-alias -o wx-c.dll
I think it's some little configuration problem, though.. should have it solved shortly...
Hope this helps! I'm going through all this because I need wxTaskbarIcon...
Pete
