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wondering is wxdev for me???

Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 11:45 pm
by code2d
I use dev c++ alot and Im wondering is wxdev c++ for me.

I want to be able to use wxWidgets to create application for Windows,MAC,Linux and maybe freebsd (kind of likely.)

thx for any help :wink:

Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 4:43 am
by NinjaNL
so the answer there would be .....yes.

Since wxDevC++ uses the GCC compiler which is available on all platforms, you should have no trouble moving your code to these platforms,

Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 5:10 pm
by deantomlinson
Is there any way to do this from inside wxDev-C++ running on MSW or do need to compile source on an OS X system for example.

Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 5:16 pm
by NinjaNL
There has been some success with allowing wxDevC++ to run from within Linux, and there is some investigation going on wrt allowing wxDev to generate Linux compatible makefiles. The upshot of this would be that you could run wxDev under Linux (under WINE) and with a bit of fiddling allow wxDev to use the Linux based compiler and tools, to make executables for your flavour of Linux.

A to Mac, unless there is something like Wine for Mac then you will need to find another method of compiling your code on that platform.

However, the code generated by wxdev should have no problems being compiled under the Mac system.

Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 8:08 am
by Peer Sommerlund
You could also consider CodeBlocks. It runs on OS X as well as the other platforms you mentioned.

See http://www.codeblocks.org/

It includes wxSmith - a tool for designing a gui. See http://wiki.codeblocks.org/index.php?ti ... h_features

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 2:20 am
by code2d
What are the legal issues??? Can you use it for commurcial use without sharing the source code to others????

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 6:25 am
by tbreina
code2d wrote:What are the legal issues??? Can you use it for commurcial use without sharing the source code to others????
Yes. Look at the wxWidgets license: http://www.wxwidgets.org/about/feature2.htm

-Tony

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 7:09 pm
by Peer Sommerlund
The license of CodeBlocks is GPL, see http://www.codeblocks.org/license.shtml

.. but that only means that you will have to publish any modifications you make to the CodeBlocks source code - and you will probably not modify it.

wxSmith generates code but does not force a license on you. The source code of your own applications are only affected by the libraries you link with, in this case wxWidgets.