Re: [OT] Compiling with wxWindows

[Joseph Barillari <jbarilla@princeton.edu>]

>>>>> "RS" == Roberto Sanchez <rcsanchez97@yahoo.es> writes:

    RS> I have recently (actually, today) embarked on learning wxWindows so as to be
    RS> able to properly develop cross-platform apps.  Mostly because I am now a
    RS> diehard Linux user (zealot even) and most of my professors only hear the drone
    RS> of the Microsoft marketing machine.  But, I digress.

    RS> I was having a heck of a time because nothing would compile.  I finally decided
    RS> to go the website and read a tutorial.  Anyhow, this is the command that I need
    RS> to execute to compile my Hello World! program:

    RS> g++ -g hworld.cpp `wx-config --libs` `wx-config --cxxflags` -o hworld

    RS> I have been using gcc/g++ for a few months now, but for the life of me I can't
    RS> figure out what `wx-config --libs` means and what `wx-config --cxxflags` means.
    RS>  I tried substituting -lwx-config for the first one, but that doesn't work.


I've never compiled a wxWindows app, but the backtick operators (` `)
tell the shell to replace the string in backticks with the output of
the string as a shell command. On my box, this is:

jdb@bigbox:~$ wx-config --libs
-pthread -lwx_gtk-2.3
jdb@bigbox:~$ wx-config --cxxflags
-I/usr/lib/wx/include/gtk-2.3 -DGTK_NO_CHECK_CASTS -D__WXGTK__ -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGE_FILES

So your command line is really:

g++ -g hworld.cpp -pthread -lwx_gtk-2.3 -I/usr/lib/wx/include/gtk-2.3 -DGTK_NO_CHECK_CASTS -D__WXGTK__ -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGE_FILES -o hworld

--Joe

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