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Building wxPython on Unix or Unix-like Systems
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The basic steps for building wxPython for Unix or Unix-like systems
are:
NOTE: You should probably look at the ../ README.1st.txt file for
directions for how to build wxPython the "new way." This files
describes the "old way" to build on unix-like systems. The difference
is very simple: The new way uses a private copy of wxGTK while the
old way uses either an existing wxGTK that may be installed and used
by other apps, or you can build a wxGTK that will be accissible by
other apps.
1. Compile and/or install glib and gtk+
2. Compile and/or install wxGTK
3. Compile and install wxPython
We'll go into more detail of each of these steps below, but first a
few bits of background information on tools.
NOTE 2: I use a tool called SWIG (http://www.swig.org) to help
generate the C++ sources used in the wxPython extension module.
However you don't need to have SWIG unless you want to modify the *.i
files. I've made several modifications to and older version of SWIG
that are specific to wxPython's needs and so the modified sources are
included in the wx CVS at .../wxPython/wxSWIG. But because of the
size and since most people won't need it my SWIG is not included in
the wxPythonSrc tarball. You'll need to get it from CVS or a CVS
snapshot.
I use a tool called SWIG (http://www.swig.org) to help generate the
C++ sources used in the wxPython extension module. However you don't
need to have SWIG unless you want to modify the *.i files. I've made
several modifications to SWIG specific to wxPython's needs and so the
modified sources are included in the wx CVS at .../wxPython/wxSWIG.
If you need to modify the *.i files for wxPython then change to this
directory and run:
If you need to modify the *.i files for wxPython then you will need to
build wxswig. Change to the .../wxPython/wxSWIG directory and run:
configure
make
@@ -46,29 +50,13 @@ A. First of all, check and see if you've already got glib/gtk+ on your
gtk-config --version
If you have version 1.2.5 or better then you're all set. You can
skip to step #2.
If you have version 1.2.7 or better then you're all set. Otherwise
either get the pacakges for your unix distribution and install them
or get the sources from www.gtk.org and build and install them.
B. If your system has a binary package mechanism, (RPMs, debs,
whatever...) check and see if binaries for glib abd gtk+ are
available. Be sure to get the runtime library package as well as
the development package, if they are separate. Install them with
your package tool, and skip to step #2.
C. If all else fails, you can get the source code for glib and gtk+ at
http://www.gtk.org/. Fetch the latest of each in the 1.2.x
series. Compile and install each of them like this:
gzip -d [package].tar.gz | tar xvf -
cd [package]
./configure
make
make install
The last step will probably have to be done as root. Also, if your
system needs anything done to update the dynamic loader for shared
libraries, (such as running ldconfig on Linux) then do it after
each library is installed.
The best version to get is the latest 1.2.x release as the
wxWindows support for GTK 2.x is still beta-level. (Most tings
work great though, and it looks real nice.)
@@ -77,23 +65,33 @@ C. If all else fails, you can get the source code for glib and gtk+ at
A. You can find the sources and RPMs for wxGTK at
http://wxwindows.org/, just follow the download links from the
nevigation panel. You can also check out a current snapshot of the
sources from the CVS server. (Some information about annonymous
CVS access is at http://wxwindows.org/cvs.htm.) The advantage of
using CVS is that you can easily update as soon as the developers
check in new sources or fixes. The advantage of using a released
version is that it usually has had more thorough testing done. You
can decide which method is best for you.
navigation panel.
Source code for wxGTK is now included with the wxPythonSrc tarball,
and is the recommended way to get released wxGTK source code if you
plan on building both.
You can also check out a current snapshot of the sources from the
CVS server. (Some information about annonymous CVS access is at
http://wxwindows.org/cvs.htm.) The advantage of using CVS is that
you can easily update as soon as the developers check in new
sources or fixes. The advantage of using a released version is
that it usually has had more thorough testing done. You can decide
which method is best for you.
B. You'll usually want to use a version of wxGTK that has the same
version number as the wxPython sources you are using. (Another
advantage of using CVS is that you'll get both at the same time.)
advantage of using wxPythonSrc or CVS is that you'll get both at
the same time.)
C. If using the RPMs be sure to get both the wxGTK and wxGTK-devel
RPMs (at a minimum) and then install them as root.
rpm -Uhv wxGTK-2.2.2-0.i386.rpm wxGTK-devel-2.2.2-0.i386.rpm
D. If using the sources (either from the tarball or from CVS) then
configure it like this:
@@ -118,6 +116,10 @@ D. If using the sources (either from the tarball or from CVS) then
special debugging code in wxWindows by defining the __WXDEBUG__
macro. You'll get some extra asserts, failure logging, etc.
If you are using GTK 2.x then you'll want to add --enable-gtk2 and
probably also --enable-unicode.
E. Now just compile and install. You need to use GNU make, so if your
system has something else get GNU make and build and install it and
use it instead of your system's default make command.
@@ -129,6 +131,7 @@ E. Now just compile and install. You need to use GNU make, so if your
system needs anything done to update the dynamic loader for shared
libraries, (such as running ldconfig on Linux) then do it now.
F. You can test your build by changing to one of the directories under
build/samples or build/demos, running make and then running the
executable that is built.
@@ -140,33 +143,24 @@ F. You can test your build by changing to one of the directories under
A. You have the same options (and same advantages/disadvantages) for
getting the wxPython source, either a released snapshot or from
CVS. The released version file is named wxPython-[version].tar.gz
CVS. The released version file is named wxPythonSrc-[version].tar.gz
and is available at http://wxpython.org/download.php. If you want
to use CVS you'll find wxPython in the wxWindows CVS tree (see
above) in the wxWindows/wxPython directory.
B. As mentioned previouslly, wxPython is built with the standard
Python Distutils tool. If you are using Python 2.0 or later you
are all set, otherwise you need to download and install Distutils
1.0 from http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/.
B. wxPython is built with the standard Python Distutils tool and
currently includes it's own snapshot of the latest version of
distutils which can also be used with previous versions of Python
On Unix systems Distutils figures out what commands and flags to
use for the compiler and linker by looking in the Makefile that was
used to build Python itself. Most of the time this works okay. If
it doesn't, there doesn't seem to be a way to override the values
that Distutils uses without hacking either Distutils itself, or
Python's Makefile. (Complain to the distutils-sig about this
please.) For example, on a Solaris system I had to edit
/usr/local/lib/python1.5/config/Makefile and replace
LDSHARED=ld -G
with
LDSHARED=gcc -G
This particular problem has been fixed in Python 1.6 and beyond,
but there may be similar issues on other platforms.
Python's Makefile. (NOTE: This has been changed with the
distutilsincluded with Python 2.3 but I havn't yet looked into how
best to utilize this in wxPython...)
While we're on the subject of how Python was built... Since
wxPython is a C++ extension some platforms and/or compilers will
@@ -188,13 +182,14 @@ B. As mentioned previouslly, wxPython is built with the standard
make install
I recently built Python 2.1.3 and Python 2.2.1 on Solaris and did
not have to resort to this workaround so apparently thigns are
not have to resort to this workaround so apparently things are
getting better there. I will leave this note here though in case
there are similar issues elsewhere. However I did run into a
Python build issue that affects the wxPython build when attempting
to use SunCC instead of GNU gcc. See the note below titled
"Building with non-GNU compilers" if you are interested.
C. Change to the root wxPython directory and look at the setup.py
file. This is the script that configures and defines all the
information that Distutils needs to build wxPython. There are some
@@ -221,17 +216,7 @@ C. Change to the root wxPython directory and look at the setup.py
will be executed to regenerate the wrapper C++
and shadow python files.
IN_CVS_TREE If you are using the CVS version of the
wxWindows and wxPython sources, or a combined
source archive from the CVS snapshots or the
distributed wxPythonSrc-*.tar.gz then you will
need to set this flag to non-zero. This is
needed because some source files from the
wxWindows tree are copied to be under the
wxPython tree in order to keep Distutils happy.
With this flag set then setup.py will
automatically keep these copied sources up to
date if the original version is ever updated.
etc.
D. To build and install wxPython you simply need to execute the
@@ -241,15 +226,25 @@ D. To build and install wxPython you simply need to execute the
site-packages directory you may need to be root to run the install
command.
python setup.py build
python setup.py install
python setup.py build install
If you need to change any of the build flags that can also be done
on the setup.py command line, like this:
python setup.py BUILD_GLCANVAS=0 build install
If you are using GTK 2.x then you'll want to add these flags:
python setup.py WXPORT=gtk2 UNICODE=1 build install
E. At this point you should be able to change into the wxPython/demo
directory and run the demo:
python demo.py
F. If you would like to make a test build that doesn't overwrite the
F. If you would like to make a test build that doesn't overwrite any
installed version of wxPython you can do so with this command
instead of the install command above:
@@ -332,5 +327,7 @@ before running configure, like this in bash:
After making and installing Python with this configuration you should
be able to build wxPython as described in the steps above.
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