Re: [Wxruby-dev] Corrections for Windows build error

[Park Heesob]

Hi,
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin Smith" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 11:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Wxruby-dev] Corrections for Windows build error


> On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 05:23, Park Heesob wrote:
> > Current wxRuby  mswin32 version supports only DLL wxWindows version.
> > You must build a DLL version of wxWindows.
> > Choose one of these build configurations:
> >    wxmsw24.lib  wxmsw24d.lib   ; ANSI DLL Release/Debug
> >    wxmsw24u.lib wxmsw24ud.lib  ; UNICODE DLL Release/Debug
> > Modify extconf.rb's $WXVERSION to one of these:
> >    $WXVERSION = '24'
> >    $WXVERSION = '24d'
> >    $WXVERSION = '24u'
> >    $WXVERSION = '24ud'
>
> I think we can solve this by using the wx-config command. Under Linux,
> we actually run this command at make-time, to figure out the specific
> name of the library to link against:
>
>     DLDFLAGS =  -L$(exec_prefix)/lib  `wx-config --libs`
> -Wl,--version-script,./version-script
>
> Note the `wx-config --libs` thingy.
>
> Under MSW, that won't work inside nmake. But we could run it as part of
> extconf.rb, assuming wxWindows is configured before wxRuby. Since MinGW
> seems to support the `` stuff, its extconf.rb section should be modified
> to look more like the Linux version. You'll notice that we don't have to
> specify the 24/241 under Linux, because wx-config already knows the
> version.
>
> I think the VC++ section of extconf.rb could look something like this:
>
> elsif have_header("windows.h") and have_library("kernel32")
>     $WXDIR=ENV['WXWIN']
> #    $WXVERSION = '24'
>     $WXSRC="#$WXDIR/src/msw"
>     $WXINC="#$WXDIR/include"
>     $INCTEMP="#$WXDIR/lib/mswdll"
> #    $WXLIB="#$WXDIR/lib/wxmsw#$WXVERSION.lib"
>     $CFLAGS += " -I#$WXINC -I#$INCTEMP #$WINFLAGS #$EXTRADLLFLAGS
> -DSTRICT -DWIN32 -D__WIN32__ -D_WINDOWS -DWINVER=0x0400 /D__WIN95__
> /D__WXMSW__ /DWXUSINGDLL=1 /D__WINDOWS__ -D__WXMSW__  "
> #    $libs += " #$WXLIB"
>     $libs += `wx-config --libs`
>     $objs.push("wx.res")
>
> end
>
> Can you try it, Roy and Park?
>
> Thanks much,
>
> Kevin

Unfortunately there is no wx-config in wxMSW package.

Regards,

Park Heesob