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Re: Ubuntu Edgy vs wxWidgets

• Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at gmail.com> Mar 19, 2007
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Matt Lewis wrote:
> 
> Once I get the vm installed, I'll try to figure out exactly what is 
> needed from a vanilla install.
> 

OK, I got it to work on an Ubuntu Edgy (6.10) VMWare appliance (and this 
post should be considered guide for other distros, too):

http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/693

You have to have these things installed:
gcc
g++
libgtk2.0-dev

Don't try to use the Applications->Add/Remove, because it doesn't have
them.  I had to go into synaptic to add these.  Then do the 

$ ./configure &&  make && sudo make install

for wxWidgets.  The binary of my library didn't work, [probably] because 
for whatever reason, it decided differently on whether to use the system 
or wx supplied libraries for tiff and jpeg.  So I had to compile from 
source.  There were several changes I had to make to the Makefile to get 
it to build:

1.  Change top_srcdir and top_builddir to point to the correct directory
2.  Change the definitions of __LIB_TIPP_p and __LIB_JPEG_p to use
    the wx-supplied libaries.  There could be others on your system that
    have the same issue, but the fix is pretty easy:

Find the _LIB_TIPP_p definition in the Makefile.
It should look something like this:
__LIB_TIFF_p  \
	=  -ltiff
#	-lwxtiff$(WXDEBUGFLAG)$(WX_LIB_FLAVOUR)-$(WX_RELEASE)$(HOST_SUFFIX)

Basically, you want it to be defined to the value that's commented out:
__LIB_TIFF_p  \
	= -lwxtiff$(WXDEBUGFLAG)$(WX_LIB_FLAVOUR)-$(WX_RELEASE)$(HOST_SUFFIX)
#	=  -ltiff

Note that thw -lwxtiff might be missing the 'wx' (my fault).  If so, you
need to put it back.

Once you've made these changes:

$ make && sudo make install

...and you should be ready to go.  It's not ideal, but it should at least 
work for now.  We need to come up with a better way to automate this
(some sort of a configure script, ideally), but I'm not sure exactly how
to go about it, so if anyone has any ideas, I'd really appreciate it.

Matt