wxFreeChart - issues buildng with mingw-w64

[jibaer]

With the current version (master-branch) i got following issues with building the demo:

• Missing windows-libraries

Add following libraries to linker command: -luxtheme -lversion -lshlwapi -loleacc

• not linked static

Add following flags for shared=0 to linker command: -static -static-libgcc -static-libstdc++

[PB]

Search this forum for "wxFreeChart" and you will find links to wxFreeChart repositories that built with current wxWidgets versions.

Or you can try a different charting library.

[jibaer]

After applying the fixes from my post to the makefile.gccc it builds with wx 3.1.4.

My post was only a hint to the maintainers to fix source-repository.

Even your github-repo and the github repo 'with more fixes' (https://github.com/iwbnwif/wxFreeChart) have the same issues.

[PB]

JFYI, FWIW...

Firstly, (unfortunately) there are no real wxFreeChart maintaners, the library was abandoned by its creator many, many years ago. There is just a bunch of forks with a patch here and there.

Secondly, your "static" fixes are not actual fixes. shared=0 just means link to wxWidgets statically, it does not affect the compiler libraries (CRT etc.) linkage. This mimicks (like in all original wxThings libraries) the build pattern of wxWidgets itself (however, unlike with GCC makefiles with CMake it is now possible to link to the CRT statically when building wxWidgets even with MinGW).