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This page contains information about all platforms (meaning architecture+compiler combinations) supported by the upcoming wxWidgets 3.0 release.
You may also be interested in the list of supported classes for each platform.
Tier-1 Platforms
These architectures/compilers are tested regularly and before each release and are never supposed to be broken:
- Win32 using Microsoft Visual C++ 2005, 2008, 2010.
- Win64 using Microsoft Visual C++ 2010.
- Linux using g++ 4
- OS X using Apple g++ or clang
We try to support as many other platforms as possible but they are not tested as regularly. Your help with testing them and reporting your results on this wiki is welcome!
Platforms supported by wxMSW
The programs using wxMSW run on any of the desktop 32-bit Windows version, including Windows 95 (and Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/Vista/2008/7/8/2012). wxMSW was tested with the following compilers:
| OS | Compiler | Version | Last tested svn revision | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Win32 (Windows 9x/NT/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7/8/2012) |
Microsoft Visual C++ | 5.0 | Not officially supported but may work using VC6 project files | |
| 6.0 | 2.9.2 / trunk | checked by a buildbot | ||
| 7.1 (a.k.a. 2003) | 2.9.0 | |||
| 8.0 (a.k.a. 2005) | 2.9.0 | |||
| 9.0 (a.k.a. 2008) | 2.9.5 / trunk | checked by a buildbot | ||
| 10.0 (a.k.a. 2010) | trunk-rev66841 | Starting rev 66836, everything compiles w/o errors. No need for any project-files workaround. | ||
| mingw32 g++ | 3.4.2 (using makefiles) | 2.9.0 | ||
| 3.4.5 (with MSYS/configure) | 2.9.5 | |||
| 4.3.1 (with MSYS/configure) | 55381 | |||
| 4.5.2 (using makefiles) | 2.9.3 RC1 | |||
| 4.6.1 (using MSYS/configure) | r70370 | |||
| Cygwin g++ | 3.4.4/4.3.4 (Cygwin 1.5/1.7) |
65114 | Compiles, links, and appears to run. Unit testing has not been run as of 2010/07/26 | |
| 4.3.4 (Cygwin 1.7) | 2.8.10 | build fails, see <http://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/11626> | ||
| 4.5.3 (Cygwin 1.7) | 2.9.5 | Configured with --host=i686-w64-mingw32 --build=i686-pc-cygwin as explained in <http://wxwidgets.blogspot.com/2011/06/choosing-gcc-for-building-wxwidgets.html>. If using wxWebView, insert two missing '}' characters at the lines pointed out by the compiler in /usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/mshtml.h | ||
| Borland C++ | 5.5 | Fixed with Patch ID 1902415. Was: Broken as of r51810 due to wxWeakRef changes. | minimal Ok; larger programs should be built using -DSHARED=1 for library and program | |
| 5.6 | ||||
| 5.8 (BCB 2006) | minimal Ok; larger programs should be built using -DSHARED=1 for library and program | |||
| 6.3 (CodeGear C++Builder 2008) | r66666 | minimal Ok | ||
| Open Watcom | 1.6 / 1.7 | 53417 | have issues with templates (2.8.7 is Ok with 1.6 and 1.7) | |
| 1.8 beta tested 30 April | 53417 | compiles, links and run ok | ||
| Digital Mars | 8.50 | ~50000 | does not compile | |
| Win64 (Windows XP/2003/Vista/2008/7/8/2012) |
Microsoft Visual C++ | 7.1 (a.k.a. 2003) | ||
| 9.0 (a.k.a. 2008) | 2.9.5 | |||
| mingw64 | 4.4.0 (experimental) |
Platforms supported by wxGTK
wxGTK can be compiled either using GTK+ 2 or GTK+ 1.2. The latter port is called wxGTK1 and is not actively maintained any more, although it is still supported for now. wxGTK2 should, in principle, work with any GTK+ 2 version but is mostly tested with GTK+ >= 2.4 as many of optional features are not available with GTK+ 2.2 or below and some features only work with GTK+ 2.12 or later.
| OS | Arch | Compiler | Version | Last tested wx version | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux (2.4 or 2.6 kernel, glibc 2.x) |
x86 | g++ | 2.95 | ||
| 3.2 | |||||
| 3.3 | |||||
| 3.4 | |||||
| 4.0 | |||||
| 4.1 | |||||
| 4.4/4.5/4.6 | 2.9.3 | ||||
| 4.7 (2012-01-28 snapshot) | r70472 | Building in C++11 mode requires the patch of r70556. | |||
| Intel C/C++ (icc) | 9.1 | r48901 | |||
| 10.0 | r56828 | PCH support works fine in this version (see below) | |||
| 11.0 | r56828 | PCH support seems to be broken | |||
| Sun CC for Linux | 5.11 | 2.9.3 | |||
| x64 | g++ | 4.7 (2012-01-28 snapshot) | r70472 | Building in C++11 mode requires the patch of r70556. | |
| NetBSD 3.1 | amd64 | g++ | 3.3.3 | r48909 | |
| FreeBSD 6.2 | amd64 | g++ | 3.4.6 | 2.9.0 | |
| OpenBSD 4.2 | x86 | g++ | 3.3.5 | ~r45000 | |
| Solaris | UltraSPARC IV+ Sun-Fire-V890 |
g++ | 3.4.5 | r49502 | |
| UltraSPARC IV+ Sun-Fire-V890 |
Sun CC | 5.9 | r49502 | ||
| x86 | Sun CC | 5.12 | 2.9.3 | Last OpenSolaris version (5.11 snv_134) | |
| HP-UX 11.31 | ia64 | HP aC++ | B3910B A.06.15 | trunk r56786 | |
| HP-UX 11.11 | PA | HP aC++ | 3.80 | trunk r51426 | CC="aCC -Ae" CXX="aCC -AA -ext" |
| AIX 5.3 | IBM XL C/C++ | 7.00 | 2.9.3 |
Platforms supported by wxX11/Univ
wxX11 port was recently tested in the following configurations:
| OS | Compiler | Version | Last tested wx version | Remarks |
|---|
Platforms supported by wxDFB
| OS | Compiler | Version | Last tested wx version | Remarks |
|---|
Platforms supported by wxMotif
wxMotif can be used either with Motif (version 2, version 1 might still be supported but is not tested as Motif 1 is rather difficult to find nowadays) or Lesstif.
| OS | Compiler | Version | Last tested wx version | Remarks |
|---|
Other ports
Other ports are limited to their native OS: wxMac builds under OS X, wxPM -- under OS/2 and so on.
Old cumulative platforms table
Here is the copy of the old page for the reference, testing results for the platforms not yet tested with wxWidgets 3.0 are welcome!
| Platform | Compiler | Status | Tested By | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Win32 (Win 9x/NT/2K/XP) | Visual C++ 4.2/5.x/6.0 | Yes | VZ, JS | Project files are provided for all versions except 4.2 |
| Borland C++ 5.0 | Yes | Also works with free command line Borland C++ 5.5 | ||
| Mingw32 | Yes | GRG, VZ | Cross compilation from Linux works as well. Version 2.95.2 recommended, otherwise some (included) patches must be applied. Memory debugging code doesn't seem to work well. | |
| Cygwin | Yes | Stephane Junique Andrea Venturoli |
Tested under NT 4, cross-compiling for Mingw also works. | |
| Watcom C++ 10 | Partial | JS | Tested with 10.6: works, but wxImage seems to be broken. no support for JPEG, TIFF or OpenGL. | |
| Watcom C++ 11 | Yes | Markus Neifer | Tested with 11.0b under Win95. | |
| Open Watcom 1.0 | Yes | Chris Elliott | Tested with 1.0 under W2K(?). | |
| Digital Mars (was Symantec C++) | Yes | Chris Elliott | Tested with 8.34b. | |
| Win64 (Windows XP/2003) | Visual C++ 7.1 | No | Some minor corrections not done yet but will be in time for 2.6.0. | |
| Win16 (Windows 3.1) | Visual C++ 1.52 | Partial | Some features are missing (OLE related classes, threads, ...). Borland C++ can't cope with ODBC, resources and new wxGrid class. Last working version is wxWindows 2.2.7, support for Win16 has been abandoned in 2.4.x. and all traces of Win16 code were removed after cvs BEFORE_WIN16_REMOVAL tag. | |
| Borland C++ 4.0/5.0 | Partial | JS | ||
| Linux x86 | wxGTK with gcc 2.7.2 | No | Might work, but nobody uses it any more. | |
| wxGTK with gcc 2.95--3.3 | Yes | VZ, RR | ||
| wxMotif | Yes | With LessTif 0.87 | ||
| wxMotif | Yes | With OpenMotif | ||
| All BSD system tests are for wxGTK using gcc. | ||||
| FreeBSD | All versions between 3.2 and 5.1 on x86 | Yes | VZ | |
| NetBSD | 1.6, Alpha | Yes | VZ | |
| OpenBSD | 3.1, Alpha | Yes | VZ | Some problems with shared libraries, ok with static ones. |
| Solaris | wxMotif with Sun CC 4.2 | Yes | VZ | Thread support must be disabled on system with not MT-safe X11. |
| wxMotif with gcc | Yes | |||
| wxGTK with Sun CC 4.2 | Yes | |||
| wxGTK with gcc | Yes | |||
| wxGTK with Sun CC 5.0 and 6.1 (Solaris 7 and 8) | Yes | Jiri Mracek | You have to edit line 2079 in glib.h to fix GTK+ error. | |
| wxGTK 2.5.1 with Sun CC 6.2 (Solaris 6 and 8) | Yes | Carl Godkin | Using GNU make. | |
| AIX | wxGTK 2.2.9 with gcc 3.0.4 | Yes | Ian Brown | Shared library building doesn't work, use --disable-shared. |
| wxGTK 2.3.3 with xlC (AIX 4.3.2) | Yes | Irvin Probst | Both static and shared wxGTK libraries work, but only with static GTK+ and GLib. | |
| wxX11 2.4.2 with xlC 6 (AIX 5.1) | Yes | Swengtoo | In 2.4.2 you need to remove parentheses from the configure line containing AIX_CXX_LD. You should also use GNU make. | |
| wxMotif with xlC 3.1.4.0 (AIX 4.2) | Yes | Bernhard Eck | Some problems with OpenGL and native X server. | |
| wxMotif 2.6.2 with gcc 3.3 (AIX 5.2) | Yes | VZ | Because of the bugs in gcc standard headers I had to use --disable-largefile. Both static and shared libraries work. | |
| HP-UX | HP-UX 10.20 wxGTK with HP CC A.10.22 or HP aCC B3910B A.01.18 | Yes | Staf Verhaegen | You need to add -Aa -D_HPUX_SOURCE to CFLAGS. |
| HP-UX 10.20 wxGTK with gcc | Yes | Julian Albo Garcia | ||
| HP-UX B.11.00 wxGTK 2.6.2 with gcc 3.3.1 | Yes | Christoph Haller | Remove /opt/imake/bin and /usr/sbin from PATH because they contain versions of install which don't work. | |
| HP-UX 11i v1 PA-RISC, wxMotif 2.5.4, tried aCC A.03.57 and g++ 3.4.2 | Yes | Ian, Mike | For a 32-bit PA-RISC build, if you want to use SHLIB_PATH to make it easier to use wxWidgets without installing it, then add LDFLAGS='-Wl,+s'. If you want to compile the test suite then aCC A.03.57 requires CXX='aCC -AA'. aCC can also be used as the C compiler instead of cc by adding CC='aCC -Ae'. | |
| HP-UX 11i v2 IA64 wxMotif and wxGTK1 2.7.0, aCC A.06.05 or g++ 3.4 | Yes | Mike, VZ | ||
| IRIX | Note that all entries use MIPSPro 7.3 compiler on IRIX 6.5 with default flags (i.e. in n32 mode) if not mentioned otherwise. Also note that you need to set LD_LIBRARYN32_PATH under IRIX to run wxWidgets programs. | |||
| wxGTK 2.2 | Yes | Ian | You may need to use --disable-catch_segvs if you get compiler error in utilsunx.cpp. | |
| wxGTK 2.5 | Yes | Carl Godkin | ||
| wxMotif 2.5 | Yes | David Marshall | On IRIX 6.5.6 (Indigo2, 64bit), with SGI Motif 1.2. | |
| wxMotif 2.6.2 | Yes | VZ | IRIX 6.5.27m, both 32 and 64 bit with SGI Motif 2.1 using CC 7.4.4m. | |
| SCO UnixWare | wxGTK with gcc | Yes | William Suetholz | UnixWare 2.1.3 with UnixWare 7 compatibility PTF. |
| DEC OSF/1 (a.k.a. Tru64) | wxGTK with gcc | Yes | Fabrice Didierjean | OSF1 4.0 on Dec Alpha you may need to run configure with the --host=alpha-dec-osf switch. |
| wxMotif1 2.7.0 (with Compaq/HP cxx 7.1) | Yes | VZ | OSF1 5.1B on AlphaServer ES45. You must set BIN_SH to "xpg4" to use wx-config. | |
| OS/2 | wxOS2-2.4.x with VAC++ 3.0 | Partial | DW | Support for this out-dated compiler has been given up for 2.5. |
| wxOS2 with EMX | Partial | SN | ||
| wxOS2 with EMX+gcc 3.2.1 | Partial | Dave Parsons | ||
| Innotek gcc 3.2.2 | No | DW | This compiler uses an object format incompatible with the current X11 libraries, so forget about wxGTK/wxMotif/wxX11. CVS now supports building wxOS2, but linking does not yet work OOTB. | |
| Open Watcom 1.0/1.1 | No | Again, object format is incompatible with X11 libs, so forget about wxGTK/wxMotif/wxX11. We would need somebody with enough time to dig into the build system and find out how to adapt OpenWatcom's makefiles (or rather bakefiles) for Windows to OS/2. | ||
| wxGTK with EMX | Yes | SN | ||
| wxMotif with EMX | Yes | SN | With LessTif 0.89 | |
| wxX11 with EMX | Yes | SN | ||
| wxGTK with EMX+gcc 3.2.1 | Yes | |||
| wxMotif with EMX+gcc 3.2.1 | Yes | With LessTif 0.89 | ||
| wxX11 with EMX+gcc 3.2.1 | Yes | |||
| OpenVMS | wxGTK with Compaq-C++ V6.2 (OpenVMS Alpha 7.3) | Yes | Jouk Jansen | |
| Linux S/390 | wxGTK with gcc 2.95.2 | Yes | VZ | 2.3.1+ only |
| Mac OS | wxMac CFM (OS 8.6+) | Yes | SC | With Metrowerks CodeWarrior 8.3 |
| wxMac Mach-O (OS X) | Yes | SC | CodeWarrior or Apple DevTools (gcc) | |
| wxCocoa (OS X) | Partial | DE | Apple DevTools (gcc) | |