wxBase installation/comoilation docs

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BuildCVS.txt

@@ -115,6 +115,20 @@ ftp server at ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/cygwin/.
 Of course, you can also build the library using plain makefiles (see
 section I).
 
+IV) wxBase
+----------------------------------------
+
+wxBase is the non GUI part of wxWindows. Currently it can be only built using
+configure (i.e. under Unix and probably under Win32 with cygwin) and with
+Visual C++.
+
+To build it using configure, just add "--disable-gui" argument to it.
+
+To build wxBase with VC++, use the project files wxBase.dsp and wxBaseDll.dsp
+included in the CVS. See http://www.wxwindows.org/vadim/wxDocs/buildmsw.html
+for the instructions on how to generate the project files for the programs
+using wxBase.
+
 V) MacOS
 ----------------------------------------
 

docs/base/install.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+
+Installing wxBase 2.2
+---------------------
+
+This is wxBase 2.2 for Microsoft Windows 9x/NT/2000 and generic Unix
+platforms. wxBase is a collection of non GUI classes, functions and macros
+used by wxWindows framework.
+
+It contains several data structure classes (as wxWindows predates STL, it has
+its own string, list, array, hash table, ... classes and also a powerful
+wxDateTime class), OS-abstraction classes (wxThread, wxSocket, wxStopWatch &c)
+and a few more utility classes (wxCmdLineParser, wxConfig for working with
+.INI and other configuration files, wxDllLoader for run-time binding and much
+more).
+
+Compilation
+-----------
+
+a) under Win32 with Visual C++: open the provided wxBase.dsw workspace. From
+   it, you can build wxBase as a static library and/or as a DLL. Please see
+
+            http://www.wxwindows.org/vadim/wxDocs/buildmsw.html
+
+   for the instructions on how to use wxBase in your own projects. You can
+   also download the precompiled binaries from
+
+            http://www.wxwindows.org/vadim/wxDocs/binaries.html
+
+   NB: it should be possible to compile wxBase with other compilers as well,
+       if you managed to do this, please let me know so that your makefiles
+       could be included in the next distribution.
+
+b) under Unix/BeOS: use configure with --disab;e-gui argument. Building wxBase
+   in a separate directory is recommended, i.e.:
+
+        $ gunzip -c wxBase-x.y.z.tar.gz | tar xvf -
+        $ cd wxBase-x.y.z
+
+        # assuming you want to build the debug version of the library
+        $ mkdir debug
+        $ cd debug
+        $ ../configure --disable-gui --enable-debug
+
+        # if you want to build the release version:
+        $ mkdir release
+        $ cd release
+        $ ../configure --disable-gui
+
+        # in both cases
+        $ make && make install
+
+    Under most modern Unices you can specify --disable-static option to
+configure to avoid building the static libraries (but only the shared ones) to
+save some time and disk space.
+
+Problems
+--------
+
+If you encounter problems or bugs, please report them to
+wx-users@wxwindows.org mailing list. Be sure to mention your platform, wxBase
+version and the compiler information. Thanks!

docs/base/todo.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+
+TODO for wxBase 2
+-----------------
+
+better BeOS support.

docs/html/platform.htm

@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ often don't work.
 <tr>
 <td bgcolor="#F0F0F0" align=center valign=center rowspan=2>AIX</td>
      <td>wxGTK with AIX CC</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="icons/no.gif" ALT=Unknown></td><td><br></td><td><br></td>
-<tr> <td>wxMotif with xlC (AIX 4.2)</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="icons/yes.gif" ALT=Ok></td>
+<tr> <td>wxMotif with xlC 3.1.4.0 (AIX 4.2)</td><td align=center><IMG SRC="icons/yes.gif" ALT=Ok></td>
                                  <td>Bernhard Eck</td>
                                  <td>Some problems with OpenGL and native X server</td>
 </tr>

docs/readme.txt

@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ wxWindows 2 currently supports the following platforms:
 - Mac (not covered here: please see the wxWindows web site
   for details)
 
+Additionally, the wxBase library containing only the non GUI classes can be
+built under Unix/Win32 and (with some limitation) BeOS.
+
 Most popular C++ compilers are supported; see the install.txt
 file for each platform (available via docs/html/index.htm) for details.
 See also http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~zeitlin/wxWindows/platform.html.
@@ -45,7 +48,21 @@ The distribution is available in archive formats appropriate to the
 target system. Documentation is available mainly in zip format.
 Some add-on libraries (such as the Object Graphics Library) are
 available in zip form only. In the following, x.y.z represents
-the current version number.
+the current version number (for example, 2.2.1).
+
+wxBase (wxWindows without GUI) distribution
+-------------------------------------------
+
+wxBase-x.y.z.tgz                    wxBase source distribution (the same files
+wxBase-x.y.z.zip                    but compressed using different formats)
+
+wxBase-x.y.z-0.i386.rpm             wxBase Linux binaries as an RPM
+wxBase-x.y.z-0.src.rpm              source for the i386 RPM above
+wxBase-devel-x.y.z-0.i386.rpm       wxBase headers (requires wxBase.rpm)
+
+wxBase doesn't include the documentation as you are likely to already have it
+from either wxGTK or wxMSW distributions. If you don't, please download the
+manual separately.
 
 wxWindows for GTK distribution
 ------------------------------
@@ -126,6 +143,7 @@ the samples or write your own applications.
 For installation information, please see the install.txt file
 in the individual directories:
 
+  docs/base
   docs/msw
   docs/gtk
   docs/motif