installing wxWidgets under linux: setup.h is a problem...

[Evan Charlton]

Marc wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am rather new... I finally managed to get kdevelop working, and I
> installed wxWidgets in two ways :
> 1) locally by compiling it, and now my wx-config --prefix is /home/
> bletry/wxWidgets/ (it is the wxX11 version)
> 2) wxGTK via rpm (using yum).
> Under kdevelop I created their "hello world" wxWidgets which first
> could not find wx/wx.h, which I solved by a ln -s  wx-2.6/wx wx, but
> now it tells me :
> /usr/include/wx/platform.h:190:22: wx/setup.h : No such file or
> directory.
> Apparently, platform.h wants to find a setup.h that is not included in
> the rpm, but should come when compiling the library... ? there, I am
> lost. Could anyone help, please ? I am rather new to linux world...
> 
> Thanks a lot !!
> 
> Marc
> 

I've never tried setting up two different builds (wxX11 and wxGTK) of 
wx, but my process for building on Linux is as follows:
1. Download and extract the source (we'll say it's in ~/wxGTK-2.8.6/ for 
now)
2. `cd ~/wxGTK-2.8.6/`
3. `mkdir build-static` # I'll be building a statically-linked Unicode 
build for this example
4. `cd build-static/`
5. `../configure --prefix=/usr/local --disable-shared --enable-unicode`
6. `make`
7. `sudo make install`

And KDevelop works and builds fine. I'm not saying this is the best way, 
but it works for me. (anyone see any obvious flaws?)

Evan Charlton