build problems

[Rob Gayvert]

Cees de Groot wrote:

> Still attempting, in the background, to build the stuff. It all seems 
> to  work, but the 2.5.3 (0.4rc1 uses 2.5.3, not?) build process 
> doesn't leave  me with the _stc and _plot libraries which wxSqueak 
> seems to need. Any  hints on what is going wrong?

You're almost there. The stc and plot libraries are in the contrib 
directory, so you need to go the <wx>/contrib/build directory and build 
each of these separately. The resulting libraries wind up in 
<wx>/lib/vc_lib with everything else. The plot library is still 
necessary because I was too lazy to yank out the API calls, which I'm 
not using anywhere. The stc library (Scintilla) is needed for styled 
text. I suspect this will get merged into the standard base libraries in 
the future.

> (by the way - building wxWidgets 2.5.3 confirms that C++ is an 
> awesome  amount of crap. I mean, taking an hour or so on a 3.2GHz P4HT 
> and leaving  over 3GB of stuff on my disk just for a widget library? 
> C'mon...)

Well, not to defend C++, but the "Build All" setup in the wxWidgets 
project is massive overkill. It builds every combination of 
(release|debug/unicode|nonunicode/universal|generic/static|dll) for a 
total of 16 flavors of each library, when you really only need 1 or 2. 
But it takes almost as long to go through the dialogs to pick out the 
ones you want as it does to compile them all, so it's a tossup. ;)