Possible Configure Flags under OS X
For a list of all possible configure flags, run ../configure --help.
The following are common ones:
| configure flag | Description |
|---|---|
| --enable-universal_binary | Gives you a universal binary running on ppc and i386 OS X variants. |
| --with-macosx-version-min | For specifing the minimal supported OS X version, eg. --with-macosx-version-min=10.4. |
| --with-macosx-sdk | For specifing which SDK you want to build against, the maximum system whose API you want to benefit from, ie it can run on newer systems, but newer APIs would not be used, eg --with-macosx-sdk=/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk. |
| --with-opengl | Enables OpenGL support. |
| --enable-debug | Build the library with debug support (recommended for development phase of your product) |
| --disable-shared | Builds static libraries. (note: Linking your own applications against dynamic libraries is quicker than against static ones.)(note 2 : do not combine with monolithic) |
| --enable-unicode | Builds wxWidgets with Unicode support. |
| --enable-monolithic | Packages everything in a single file. (Do not combine with static build). |
Note 1 : If you are on OS X 10.5 and wish that your application runs on 10.4, pass flags --with-macosx-version-min=10.3.9 --with-macosx-sdk=/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk, and make sure to build your Xcode project by following instructions described in the Creating Xcode projects for wxWidgets applications article (you will need to change a few settings about symbol visibility). To make it work on PPC 10.4 systems, just add --enable-universal_binary
Note 2 : If you have installed lipng, libjpg, etc., wxWidgets will depend on them. If you installed any of these libraries and still want wxWidgets to be self-contained in order to ease distibution, pass the following flags:
- --with-libjpeg=builtin
- --with-libpng=builtin
- --with-regex=builtin
- --with-libtiff=builtin
- --with-zlib=builtin
- --with-expat=builtin
Note 3 : It has been reported that it's possible to make an app built against the 10.5 SDK run on 10.4 by doing export LDFLAGS='-flat_namespace' before building wxWidgets (Why would one want to do that, I don't know...)