Difference between revisions of "Compiling wxWidgets with MinGW"
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it's probably because you have MSYS installed and the MSYS\bin folder in your PATH, and this confuses mingw32-make. Remove the MSYS\bin folder from your PATH and try again, it should work. (Alternatively, use MSYS to build wxWidgets, as described in build\msw\install.txt in the wxWidgets source tree). | it's probably because you have MSYS installed and the MSYS\bin folder in your PATH, and this confuses mingw32-make. Remove the MSYS\bin folder from your PATH and try again, it should work. (Alternatively, use MSYS to build wxWidgets, as described in build\msw\install.txt in the wxWidgets source tree). | ||
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In some cases, actually everything is fine, but you might have more than one similar complier installed on your machine. | In some cases, actually everything is fine, but you might have more than one similar complier installed on your machine. | ||
Revision as of 04:13, 22 March 2011
| This article applies to the following versions | ||
| Platform | wxWidgets | MinGW |
|---|---|---|
| Windows XP | 2.8.11 | 5.1.4 |
| Windows 7 | 2.9.1 | 5.1.4 |
| Status: Up to Date | ||
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| Using Makefiles to compile wxWidgets |
Install MinGW
Please follow the steps described in Installing MinGW under Windows.
Download and Install wxWidgets
See Downloading and installing wxWidgets.
Build the library
Open the command prompt (Start > Run... > cmd). Change the directory to the build\msw folder. For example:
CD wx\\wx288\\build\\msw
Clean up the source:
mingw32-make -f makefile.gcc MONOLITHIC=1 SHARED=1 UNICODE=1 BUILD=release clean
Then, compile the library:
mingw32-make -f makefile.gcc MONOLITHIC=1 SHARED=1 UNICODE=1 BUILD=release
| Note: For more information on the UNICODE and BUILD options, see WxWidgets Build Configurations. |
Build Output
In the example above a DLL was created under \lib\gcc_dll. The resultant setup.h file can be found under \lib\gcc_dll\mswu\wx
See Also
Understanding wxWidgets Build Scheme
Precompiled Headers in MinGW
Troubleshooting
Note: if you get errors like this:
if not exist gcc_mswu mkdir gcc_mswu
process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, -c "if not exist gcc_mswu mkdir gcc_mswu", ...) failed.
make (e=2): The system cannot find the file specified.
mingw32-make: [gcc_mswu] Error 2 (ignored)
if not exist ..\..\lib\gcc_lib mkdir ..\..\lib\gcc_lib
process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, -c "if not exist ..\..\lib\gcc_lib mkdir ..\..\lib\gcc_lib", ...) failed.
make (e=2): The system cannot find the file specified.
mingw32-make: *** [..\..\lib\gcc_lib] Error 2
it's probably because you have MSYS installed and the MSYS\bin folder in your PATH, and this confuses mingw32-make. Remove the MSYS\bin folder from your PATH and try again, it should work. (Alternatively, use MSYS to build wxWidgets, as described in build\msw\install.txt in the wxWidgets source tree).
Winavr interference In some cases, actually everything is fine, but you might have more than one similar complier installed on your machine.
For a real example, I have C:\WinAVR-20100110\bin;C:\WinAVR-20100110\utils\bin; installed on my machine for some microcontroller firmware development.
The installed WinAVR containing a series GNU compiler like gcc, g++ , etc.
As the WinAVR tool chain is also registered to the window via PATH environment variable.So same kind of error as aboved occurs when I tried to compile wxWidgets-2.8.11.
This could be solved by temporary remove the related Winavr directory locaiton from PATH environment variable.(Not only your current user environment variable also the Global environment variable set by administrator)
External Links
Code::Block's WxWindowsQuickRef
Compiling wxWidgets 2.8.6 to develop Code::Blocks (MSW)