[wxPython-users] Building Under Cygwin

[Robin Dunn]

Harry Goldschmitt wrote:

> I got everything to work after a bit of fiddling.
> 
> The first failure was compiling stc_wrap.cpp, because wx/stc/stc.h 
> couldn't be found.  So I created an stc directory under 
> /opt/wx/2.8/include/wx-2.8/wx, copied stc.h from contrib/src/stc to it.  
> stc_wrap.cpp compiled successfully, but the ld step failed because the 
> wx_mswd_stc-2.8 library couldn't be found.  I copied it to /opt/wx/2.8/lib.
> 
> Next, I had similar problems with the gizmos directory.  I copied all 
> the header files from the gizmos directory to a new 
> /opt/wx/2.8/include/wx-2.8/wx/gizmos directory.  I also had to copy the 
> dll.a for it to /opt/wx/2.8/lib.


You probably didn't do the make install step for the stc and gizmos libs.

> 
> Do you have a test suite I can run?  I've run a couple of the demo.py 
> demos, but haven't done an exhaustive check.

A test suite was recently added from a Google Summer of Code project, 
it's in the SVN repository.

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Robin Dunn
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