[wx-dev] Solaris and X11 support?

[Nancy Buehmann]

Well, I took a week off for spring break, but I'm back.

I'm having better luck with the Solaris GTK build ("--with-gtk").  The 
"treectrl" sample runs well with both a Unicode build as well as an ANSI 
build.  With a Unicode build, my app causes the pango_layout_set_text() 
calls to report "Invalid UTF-8 string" messages (with my LANG shell 
variable set to either "C" or "en_US.UTF-8").  The 
pango_layout_set_text() routine expects to see a UTF-8 string.  It 
appears that the wxWidgets code properly translates input text into this 
format.  Unfortunately, the pango_layout_set_text() routine is a void, 
so the calling (wxWidgets) code cannot tell whether pango is 
complaining.  The gtk/dcclient.cpp and gtk/window.cpp files contain many 
of the more interesting pango_layout_set_text() calls.

This problem persists across wxWidgets 2.6.3, 2.8.0, and 2.8.2.

A nice pango reference appears at 
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/pango/pango-Layout-Objects.html 
.  I don't know which version of pango is on my system.  I see a 
/usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/ directory.  The pango libraries in /usr/lib have 
"-1.0" in their file names.

To get around this pango problem, I built my app with an ANSI build of 
wxWidgets.

Certainly, since the "treectrl" sample is okay, the suspicion moves to 
my app.