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BuildingWxWidgetsWin

Compiling wxWidgets with MinGW

Prerequisites

• Download and install MinGW. CodeLite is built with MinGW w64 7.1 64 bit (or 32) version MinGW-w64-7.1-POSIX-SEH
• Open CMD shell and add the bin folder to the PATH environment, e.g: C:\MinGW-64\bin

 set PATH=C:\MinGW-64\bin;%PATH%

• Download wxWidgets sources, CodeLite requires wxWidgets 3.0 or later from here
• If you have cloned wxWidgets repository from git master, you will also need to run this git submodule update --init from the root wxWidgets folder

Release

CodeLite requires a wxWidgets build which enables Graphic Context, to do this:

• open CMD.EXE, cd to \Path\To\wxWidgets\Sources\build\msw and type:

  mingw32-make -f makefile.gcc setup_h SHARED=1 UNICODE=1 BUILD=release VENDOR=cl

• Next, open the file: \path\to\wxwidgets\lib\gcc_dll\mswu\wx\setup.h and ensure that wxUSE_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT and wxUSE_GRAPHICS_DIRECT2D are both set to 1:

#   define wxUSE_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT 1
...
#   define wxUSE_GRAPHICS_DIRECT2D 1

• Start the build

 mingw32-make -j8 -f Makefile.gcc SHARED=1 UNICODE=1 BUILD=release VENDOR=cl CXXFLAGS="-fno-keep-inline-dllexport -std=c++11"

Debug

• open CMD.EXE, cd to \Path\To\wxWidgets\Sources\build\msw and type:

  mingw32-make -f makefile.gcc setup_h SHARED=1 UNICODE=1 BUILD=debug VENDOR=cl

• Next, open the file: \path\to\wxwidgets\lib\gcc_dll\mswud\wx\setup.h and change line 784 (ish) to:

#   define wxUSE_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT 1

• Start the build

 mingw32-make -j8 -f Makefile.gcc SHARED=1 UNICODE=1 BUILD=debug VENDOR=cl CXXFLAGS="-fno-keep-inline-dllexport -std=c++11"