Re: wxWindows + building from source in Debian

[Dave Howorth <dhoworth@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk>]

On Friday 17 October 2003 16:13, I wrote:
> | >>I need to install wxWindows 2.4 on a Woody system so I can build
> | >>another application (TreeView X).  Does anybody have any idea of the
> | >>best way to do this, and what steps are involved?

I haven't built Debian-ised software from source before (except a 
kernel). It seems a lot more complicated than just downloading the 
upstream package and building it.

Thankfully Derrick 'dman' Hudson replied:
> $ apt-get source libwxgtk2.4
> $ cd [wx...]    # whatever the directory is called
> $ fakeroot ./debian/rules binary
> $ su
> # dpkg -i ../libwxgtk2.4*.deb
>
> You'll definitely need the "lib" package to run that other app.
> You'll need the -dev package (or maybe it's called wxwin2.4-headers)
> to compile that other app.

I suspect I need both the -dev and the -headers but when I did the 
apt-get it looked to me like it downloaded the same package three times.

I tried the fakeroot command but it just sat there so I looked in the 
Debian Reference and tried

wxwindows2.4-2.4.1.2# dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc

(I'm running as root so I left out the -rfakeroot). It ran but produced 
failed dependencies:

dpkg-buildpackage: source package is wxwindows2.4
dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 2.4.1.2
dpkg-buildpackage: source maintainer is Ron Lee <ron@debian.org>
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture is i386
dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: libgtk1.2-dev, python 
(>=2.3), python2.3-dev, libpng2-dev, libtiff3g-dev, xlibmesa-gl-dev | 
libgl-dev, xlibmesa-glu-dev | libglu-dev, libesd0-dev
dpkg-buildpackage: Build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting.

Which leaves me with a general question and a specific one.

The general question is why the dependencies weren't picked up when I 
did the apt-get source?  And is there in principle a general way to 
resolve them or do I have to apt-get them all individually.

The specific question is why these particular dependencies are arising. 
It's asking for python but I didn't ask for the Python interface 
(libwxgtk2.4-python) [and it wants a version of Python I don't have 
since I'm on Woody] and it's asking for GL support though GL support is 
an optional feature of wxWindows that I don't believe is needed by the 
application I actually want to use (it's a feature of the python 
interface, though).  So I'd like to eliminate the need for those 
dependencies rather than upgrade python and who knows what else.

All suggestions gratefully received.

Thanks, Dave