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Hi - I have installed all this in Windows:

• C:\usr\local\gcc-13.2.0 (from winlibs)

• C:\usr\local\cmake-3.27.6 (from KitWare)

• C:\usr\local\wxWidgets-3.2.2.1 (from wxwidgets.org)

• C:\usr\local\codelite-17.6.0 (from codelite.org)

Then I build wxWidgets in the directory C:\usr\local\wxWidgets-3.2.2.1\build (that seemed the right place to do that), using the CMake and gcc executables above, using mingw32-make from the compiler directory. The binaries end up in build\lib\gcc_x64_dll in the wxWidgets directory.

My plan is to just build a 'Hello World' program with a GUI, just to see how to do that with wxWidgets.

What I did to set up CodeLite were the following steps:

1. changed Settings -> Build Settings, to add the compiler above

2. changed Settings -> GDB Settings, to add the debugger in the same directory as the compiler

3. added WXWIN=C:\usr\local\wxWidgets-3.2.2\build and WXCFG=gcc_x64_dll\mswu to the environment variables

Then, for the project:

1. I started a new C++ workspace,

2. opened a new project 'hello_wxwidget' of the category 'GUI', type 'wxWidgets GUI application', compiler and debugger as just specified, build system 'CodeLite Makefile Generator',

3. in the Golbal Settings of the project itself, add 'C:\usr\local\wxWidgets-3.2.2.1\include' to the Additional Include Paths

The last item on the list was to get rid of the error wx/wxprec.h: No such file or directory. After adding the include directory, the C++ compiler itself returns no errors any more, but windres.exe returns the error wx/msw/wx.rc: No such file or directory.

But that does not make sense because this path is also in the same include directory that I have just added...

So I would be grateful to find out: does this mean I have done something wrong in my settings, in either the numbered or the lettered list? Should I not have built the wxWidgets library in the directory that was already there? Did I choose the wrong project type for this goal? Or is something else wrong that I haven't thought of?

Thanks for your help! Also: happy to send more information or output files if that makes the situation clearer.

The file that produces the error is hello_wxwidget\win_resources.rc (that's the name of my project).

The lines that produce the error are these:

// this is not always needed but doesn't hurt (except making the executable
// very slightly larger): this file contains the standard icons, cursors, ...
#if !defined(__llvm__)
#include "wx/msw/wx.rc"
#endif

So what i have tried, if the lines are not always needed, is to comment them out.
Unfortunately I apparently do need them (for not using clang I guess) as with the lines commented out I get:

C:/usr/local/gcc-13.2.0/bin/windres.exe
-i "C:/Users/myname/Documents/cpp-devel/hello_wxwidget/win_resources.c"
--include-dir "C:/usr/local/wxwidgets-3.2.2.1/build/lib/gcc_x64_dll/mswu"
--include-dir "C:/usr/local/wxwidgets-3.2.2.1/build/include"
--define __WXMSW__ --define __UNICODE__ --define __WXUSINGDLL__
-o ../build-Debug/hello-wxwidget/win_resources.rc.0
C:/usr/local/gcc-13.2.0/bin/windres.exe: no resources

This is strange because in my project settings (Global Settings) I include C:/usr/local/wxwidgets-3.2.2.1/include, which has a path wx/msw/wx.rc in its tree, but the windres.exe command line includes ``, which does not exist.

After I copy the directory C:/usr/local/wxwidgets-3.2.2.1/include also to C:/usr/local/wxwidgets-3.2.2.1/build I can succesfully compile the program, but nothing (no window / GUI) appears on the screen when I run it, except:

Executing: hello_wxwidget.exe
Program exited

Does this mean that the installation of wxWidgets has not finished correctly, or is there something wrong in my setup of CodeLite?

You should take this to the wx forum...