A no GUI version of wxWidgets?

Tim Stahlhut stahta01 at verizon.net
Sat Feb 9 20:59:06 PST 2008


Tom Horsley wrote:

> I begin with a confession of utter ignorance of wxWidgets,
> so I have no idea how stupid this question is :-).
>
> I see lots of different implementations of wxWidgets with
> different underlying toolkits. Is there an implementation
> which doesn't do GUI at all? I.e. merely has all the other
> wxWidgets structure, but fails if you actually try to
> do any GUI operations?
>
> I ask because truecrypt 5.0 was just released and it is
> completely rewritten to use wxWidgets throughout, and that
> currently renders it incapable of operating without an X
> server to make the library happy (even when you use the
> option that says you are running in text mode only).
>
> It would be very handy if I could just plug the right
> wxWidgets source code into the build, and wind up with
> a true text mode only truecrypt.

If using configure use option --disable-gui

If on windows pass option USE_GUI=0 to make command; you may also need
to define wxUSE_GUI as 0. Not sure of the best way to do this of if it
will be done if automacically by USE_GUI=0.

Tim S






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