Can't create a wxWidgets Project

[coder99]

I'm trying to follow the wxWidgets project tutorial, and I get as far as creating a workspace, but after that things don't work.
When I highlight the just created work space, the wxWidgets icon becomes enabled, but when I click on it, nothing happens and I can't proceed following the rest of the tutorial.

What am I missing or how can I fix this

I have set the environment variables as suggested, but I am curious if these need to be adjusted if I wanted to build a release, non-Unicode ot statically linked version, since currently WXCFG points to the Unicode dynamically linked debug directory ?
TIA

[eranif]

Hi,

Which tutorial and which OS?

It works fine here (XP & WX2.8.7)

Eran

[coder99]

Sorry for being unclear

OS: WinXP - I've added it now to my signature
The tutorial: wxdemo_gui.html

Later edit:

After restarting now, the wxWidget Project dialog does come up - I'll keep going with that for now and let you know if things change

Later yet:
I can now create the project, but I get a pile of errors.
According to:
http://codelite.org/WxWidgets/GettingRe ... derWindows
my environment variables are:
WXWIN d:\wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9\
WXCFG gcc_lib\mswud

If I specify the extra include paths for the compiler, it does seem to find the header files, but quite obviously I need to define a bunch more things because I gett a lot of errors of the type:

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d:/wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9/include/wx/chkconf.h:103:9: #error "wxUSE_DYNLIB_CLASS must be defined."
d:/wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9/include/wx/chkconf.h:111:9: #error "wxUSE_EXCEPTIONS must be defined."
d:/wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9/include/wx/chkconf.h:119:9: #error "wxUSE_FILESYSTEM must be defined."
d:/wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9/include/wx/chkconf.h:127:9: #error "wxUSE_FS_ARCHIVE must be defined."
d:/wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9/include/wx/chkconf.h:140:9: #error "wxUSE_DYNAMIC_LOADER must be defined."
d:/wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9/include/wx/chkconf.h:148:9: #error "wxUSE_LOG must be defined."
d:/wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9/include/wx/chkconf.h:156:9: #error "wxUSE_LONGLONG must be defined."

But I'm unsure of how I make sure I get them all or specify them reasonably concisely.

[eranif]

Can u post the build log from the start?
the more interesting part is to see the command CodeLite is trying to execute

Eran

[coder99]

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Building: 
"mingw32-make.exe"  -j 2 -f "demo1_wsp.mk"
----------Building project:[ demo1 - Debug ]----------
g++ -c  "C:/demo1/demo1_app.cpp" -g -mthreads -DHAVE_W32API_H -D__WXMSW__ -D__WXDEBUG__ -D_UNICODE -Id:\wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9\lib\gcc_lib\mswud -Id:\wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9\include -Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy -pipe -fmessage-length=0    -D__WX__  -o ./Debug/demo1_app.o -Id:/wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9/include -Id:/wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9/include/msvc 
g++ -c  "C:/demo1/demo1_frame.cpp" -g -mthreads -DHAVE_W32API_H -D__WXMSW__ -D__WXDEBUG__ -D_UNICODE -Id:\wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9\lib\gcc_lib\mswud -Id:\wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9\include -Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy -pipe -fmessage-length=0    -D__WX__  -o ./Debug/demo1_frame.o -Id:/wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9/include -Id:/wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9/include/msvc 
In file included from d:/wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9/include/wx/platform.h:196,
                 from d:/wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9/include/wx/defs.h:21,
                 from d:/wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9/include/wx/event.h:15,
                 from d:/wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9/include/wx/window.h:19,
                 from d:/wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9/include/wx/toplevel.h:21,
                 from d:/wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9/include/wx/frame.h:19,
                 from C:/demo1/demo1_frame.h:4,
                 from C:/demo1/demo1_frame.cpp:1:
d:/wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9/include/msvc/wx/setup.h:247:6: #error "This file should only be included when using Microsoft Visual C++"
In file included from d:/wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9/include/wx/platform.h:293,
                 from d:/wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9/include/wx/defs.h:21,
                 from d:/wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9/include/wx/event.h:15,
                 from d:/wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9/include/wx/window.h:19,
                 from d:/wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9/include/wx/toplevel.h:21,
                 from d:/wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9/include/wx/frame.h:19,
                 from C:/demo1/demo1_frame.h:4,
                 from C:/demo1/demo1_frame.cpp:1:
d:/wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9/include/wx/chkconf.h:103:9: #error "wxUSE_DYNLIB_CLASS must be defined."
d:/wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9/include/wx/chkconf.h:111:9: #error "wxUSE_EXCEPTIONS must be defined."
d:/wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9/include/wx/chkconf.h:119:9: #error "wxUSE_FILESYSTEM must be defined."
d:/wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9/include/wx/chkconf.h:127:9: #error "wxUSE_FS_ARCHIVE must be defined."
d:/wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9/include/wx/chkconf.h:140:9: #error "wxUSE_DYNAMIC_LOADER must be defined."
d:/wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9/include/wx/chkconf.h:148:9: #error "wxUSE_LOG must be defined."
d:/wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9/include/wx/chkconf.h:156:9: #error "wxUSE_LONGLONG must be defined."
d:/wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9/include/wx/chkconf.h:164:9: #error "wxUSE_MIMETYPE must be defined."
d:/wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9/include/wx/chkconf.h:180:9: #error "wxUSE_PRINTF_POS_PARAMS must be defined."
d:/wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9/include/wx/chkconf.h:188:9: #error "wxUSE_PROTOCOL must be defined."
d:/wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9/include/wx/chkconf.h:230:9: #error "wxUSE_REGEX must be defined."

Let me know if you need more

[eranif]

You are mixing compilers/settings here.

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-Id:/wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9/include
-Id:/wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9/include/msvc 

However, the compiler used is g++

Which compiler are u using? MSVC or g++ ?

Eran

[coder99]

I'd like to use MinGW, if possible
Removing that entry changes nothing in the output, as far as I can see.

[eranif]

Now, the question is:
Do you have wxWidgets installed for g++?
It looks like you dont ...
Eran

[coder99]

I think I do
I use the same setup with Eclipse CDT - I finally got it to compile and run the minimal sample. It is using g++ - see below

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**** Build of configuration Release for project wxMinimal ****

**** Internal Builder is used for build               ****
g++ -LD:\wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9\lib\gcc_lib\mswu -LD:\wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9\lib\gcc_lib -Wl,--subsystem,windows -owxMinimal.exe minimal.o -lwxmsw28u_xrc -ladvapi32 -lwxbase28u_odbc -lwxmsw28u_dbgrid -lwxbase28u_net -lwxmsw28u_richtext -lwxmsw28u_media -lwxmsw28u_aui -lwxmsw28u_html -lwxmsw28u_adv -lwxbase28u_xml -lwxmsw28u_core -lwxbase28u -lwxtiff -lwxjpeg -lwxpng -lwxzlib -lwxregexu -lwxexpat -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lcomdlg32 -lwinspool -lwinmm -lshell32 -lcomctl32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -luuid -lrpcrt4 -lwsock32 -lodbc32
Build complete for project wxMinimal
Time consumed: 953  ms.  

As best I can tell, I ran the same steps to download and compile the wxWidgets package as outlined in your instructions in getting ready for wxWidgets.

Later edit:
After I recalled that I was getting similar error messages with Eclipse, I set the compiler include paths the same and I seem to be able to compile the release and the debug versions
The compiler paths I had to set are:
d

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:/wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9/include
"D:/wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9/lib/gcc_lib/mswud"
"D:/wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9/include/msvc"

In that order.
\Now it complains about not finding the libraries.
I will continue work on this to see how far I get.

Later yet:
the error message from the build step I now get is:

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Building: 
"mingw32-make.exe"  -j 2 -f "minimal_wsp.mk"
----------Building project:[ minimal - Debug ]----------
g++ -o ./Debug/minimal ./Debug/minimal_app.o ./Debug/minimal_frame.o  -Ld:/wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9/lib/gcc_lib/mswu -Ld:/wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9/lib/gcc_lib  -lwxmsw28u_xrc.lib -lwxmsw28u_html.lib -lwxmsw28u_adv.lib -lwxmsw28u_core.lib -lwxmsw28u_richtext.lib -lwxbase28u_xml.lib -lwxbase28u.lib -lwxtiff.lib -lwxjpeg.lib -lwxpng.lib -lwxzlib.lib -lwxregexu.lib -lwxexpat.lib -lwinmm.lib -lcomctl32.lib -lrpcrt4.lib -lwsock32.lib -lodbc32.lib  -O2  -mthreads -Ld:\wxWidgetsEclipse2.8.9\lib\gcc_lib -lwxmsw28ud_html -lwxmsw28ud_adv -lwxmsw28ud_core -lwxbase28ud_xml -lwxbase28ud_net -lwxbase28ud -lwxtiffd -lwxjpegd -lwxpngd -lwxzlibd -lwxregexud -lwxexpatd -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lcomdlg32 -lwxregexud -lwinspool -lwinmm -lshell32 -lcomctl32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -luuid -lrpcrt4 -ladvapi32 -lwsock32  -mwindows
c:\mingw-3.4.5\bin\..\lib\gcc\mingw32\3.4.5\..\..\..\..\mingw32\bin\ld.exe: cannot find -lwxmsw28u_xrc.lib
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
mingw32-make[1]: *** [Debug/minimal] Error 1
mingw32-make.exe: *** [All] Error 2
0 errors, 0 warnings, total time: 00:00:00 seconds
----------Build Ended----------

It looks like Codelite is looking for MS type libs, but there are no *.lib files in that directory, they all are libxxxxxx.a files and Eclipse is happy with them.

[eranif]

My guess is:
You imported the minimal using CL VS importer?

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-lwxexpat.lib -lwinmm.lib -lcomctl32.lib -lrpcrt4.lib

Who added these libraries?

CodeLite is searching what you told him to search...

Can u try and create a simple wx project using CL WX wizard?

point
WXWIN to the base of your WX install directory
and
WXCFG gcc_lib\mswud

Eran
Eran