How to statically link applications to wxWidgets via Visual Studio 2008 and in Linux

MS Windows Procedure:

Build the wxWidgets as static
  1.  Uncompressed the source file “wxWidgets-2.8.12.tar.gz”
  2. Go to “..\wxWidgets-2.8.12\build\msw”
  3.  Right-click and open the file “wx.dsw” using Visual Studio 2008
  4. Change the “Runtime Library” property value into “Multi-threaded (/MT)”
  5. Rebuild the solution as “Release” mode
  6. The libraries can be found in “..\wxWidgets-2.8.12\lib\vc_lib”














Build the application to link with wxWidgets as static
  1. Add environment variable (for convinience) WXWIN and set the value to wherever your wxWidgets is located. Sample: c:\wxWidgets
  2. Open your application in Visual Studio 2008 and switch the mode to “Release”
  3. “Preprocessor Definitions” must be set to:

    WIN32
    __WXMSW__
    _WINDOWS
    NOPCH
    _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE  












     
 4. Change the “Runtime Library” property value into “Multi-threaded (/MT)”













      
 5. “Additional Library Directories” property value into “"$(WXWIN)\lib\vc_lib"”














       
6. “Additional Dependencies” property value into:


"$(WXWIN)\lib\vc_lib\wxbase28.lib"

"$(WXWIN)\lib\vc_lib\wxmsw28_adv.lib"
"$(WXWIN)\lib\vc_lib\wxmsw28_core.lib"
"$(WXWIN)\lib\vc_lib\wxmsw28_aui.lib"
winmm.lib
comctl32.lib
rpcrt4.lib
wsock32.lib
odbc32.lib 














6. Rebuild your application and execute without any wxWidgets runtime DLLs installed


SUSE Linux Procedure:

Build the wxWidgets as static

 1. Uncompressed the source file “wxWidgets-2.8.12.tar.gz”
2.  Go to “..\wxWidgets-2.8.12\build
3. Create new folder by issuing command in xterm "mkdir new_build"
4. Go inside the "new_build" folder by issuing command in xterm "cd new_build"
5. Issue command in xterm "../configure --disable-shared --enable-monolithic"
6. Issue the command in xterm "make"
7. Issue the command in xterm "make install". The libraries are installed in "/usr/local/lib"
8. Issue the command in xterm "ldconfig"

Build the application to link with wxWidgets as static

1. In the folder where your source files are located (*.cpp, *.h) issue the command
     in xterm "g++ *.cpp `wx-config --libs --cxxflags` -o MyApp"
2. At this time your executable file "MyApp" is created. You can now run this file without needing to install
    SO of wxWidgets.
 

That's it! =)

Comments

  1. AnonymousMarch 5, 2014 at 3:29 AM

    Thank you for this very good example! I've been searching for this for sometimes and your example is the best!!

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Creating tray application and popup context menu in Windows

If you want to add your application in system tray and popup a context menu #include<windows.h> #include "resource.h" HINSTANCE g_hInstance; const int WM_EX_MESSAGE = (WM_APP + 1); BOOL TrayIcon(HWND hWnd, HICON hIcon, DWORD msg) { NOTIFYICONDATA nid; ZeroMemory(&nid,sizeof(NOTIFYICONDATA)); nid.cbSize = sizeof(NOTIFYICONDATA); nid.hWnd = hWnd; nid.uID = IDI_ICON2; nid.uFlags = NIF_TIP | NIF_ICON | NIF_MESSAGE; nid.uCallbackMessage = WM_EX_MESSAGE; nid.hIcon = hIcon; lstrcpyn(nid.szTip, __TEXT("This is my tray app!"), 64); return Shell_NotifyIcon(msg,&nid); } void ContextMenu(HWND hwnd) { HMENU hmenu = LoadMenu(g_hInstance, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDR_MENU2)); HMENU hmnuPopup = GetSubMenu(hmenu,0); SetMenuDefaultItem(hmnuPopup,IDOK,FALSE); POINT pt; GetCursorPos(&pt); TrackPopupMenu(hmnuPopup,TPM_LEFTALIGN,pt.x,pt.y,0,hwnd,NULL); DestroyMenu(hmnuPopup); DestroyMenu(hmenu); } BOOL CALLBACK APP_DlgProc(HWND hDlg, UINT uiMsg,
Read more

How to put an image to wxPanel using wxWidgets

Image
1. I created the class xOsdHeaderPanel 2. Must call the function wxInitAllImageHandlers(); 3. Create a wxBitmap object and call SetBackgroundBitmap(..) class xOsdHeaderPanel : public wxCustomBackgroundWindow<wxPanel> { public: xOsdHeaderPanel(wxWindow* parent)     { wxInitAllImageHandlers(); const wxSize xxsize(733,80);         Create(parent, wxID_ANY,wxDefaultPosition,xxsize); wxBitmap bitmap(*new wxImage(wxT("./Header.png"),wxBITMAP_TYPE_PNG)); SetBackgroundBitmap(bitmap); new wxButton(this,wxID_ANY,wxT("Sample Button"));     } }; Result:
Read more