Re: MacOS X Build Help

> I thought I saw some hints on MacOS X build but can't find them.
> According to this screen shot someone has done it!
> 
>    http://www.gnu.org/projects/dotgnu/screenshot14.html
> 
> Does anyone have any build instructions?

I wrote up some instructions a while back when I created that screenshot
under Mac OSX Panther.  Since I'm not a Mac user, and didn't have a lot
of time to work on wx.NET with the Mac, the results were _far_ from
stable, and a few hacks were required.  This was also back when we were
using wxWidgets 2.4.2.

The following are modified sources for wx.NET, with hacks to get the
Makefiles to create .dylib's in Darwin, and parts of the code
uncommented where wxMac didn't support certain functionality.

   http://wxnet.sf.net/mac/wx.NET-mac.tar.gz

(Note: these sources are from last November, and were only tested with
wxWidgets 2.4.2).  To attempt a build, don't use Premake; use the
Makefiles provided.

> I've installed wxWidgets 2.5.1 via DarwinPorts. I've used premake to
> create Makefiles. But one glitch is that the premake.lua files know
> about linix and windows but not MacOS X. To get started I hard coded
> in "OS = "linux" into the wx-c version.
> 
> I get warnings and errors right away. When compiling bitmap.cxx:
> ...
> bitmap.cxx: In function `bool wxBitmap_LoadFile(wxBitmap*, const
> char*, int)':
> bitmap.cxx:84: error: no matching function for call to
> `wxBitmap::LoadFile(
>    wxString, int&)'
> /usr/local/dports/include/wx/mac/bitmap.h:172: error: candidates are:
> virtual
>    bool wxBitmap::LoadFile(const wxString&, wxBitmapType =
>    wxBITMAP_TYPE_BMP_RESOURCE) <near match>
> make[1]: *** [obj/bitmap.o] Error 1
> make: *** [wx-c] Error 2

> I am C++ ignorant :-(.

If you want to try building the latest wx.NET release in OSX, not
knowing a bit of C/C++ will make things fairly difficult.  The Makefiles
in the above archive may give you some idea on how to get things to
link properly, but code will need to be adjusted to get things to
compile correctly.

Hopefully someone with some (wx)Mac development experience can
help out one of these days. :-)


Cheers.

-- 
Bryan Bulten
http://www.bulten.ca/
http://wxnet.sourceforge.net/

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