wxWidgets !!!
December 14, 2008Just wanna try my hand on wxWidgets toolkit so as get refresh my GUI programming course and also i would be easier for me to use in my future projects.
Before we get started with wxWIdgets u need to get ur IDE and compiler ready . For IDE i would be using code block . This the first time that i would be working on Code Blocks . One thing that i would like to mention over here is that code blocks itself is developed in wxWidgets and is cross platform that make it really very interesting to work with it . Download the Code Blocks win binary release 8.02 without out the compiler ( i would be installing mingw seperately so that i can share the same with other IDE’s ). Now after selecting the IDE next step is see which compiler you would be using . I prefer mingw compiler and downloaded 5.1.4 from the ming site. During the course of installation make sure that u select the c++ compiler during custom installation . After installing the above u can proceed with to install the wxwidget toolkit (current stable release 2.8.9 win installer). Make sure that u first install the ming compiler package which should be in c:\ so that Code Block can auto detect the GCC compiler suite ) which u can install in any destination u desire .
Ok now the important part : before u can create u first application with wxWidgets u need to compile the liab first . Compliation will make around 10 min to compile but important things over here is the make option that u would be using since that will have a effect on how u would be configuring the CodeBlock to use wxWidgets Liab.
Anyway everything went smooth and below is the pic of my first app created with wxWidgets .
Just a simple notepad !!! but useful . Anyway there is lot more things to cover before i could use wxWidgets functionally however this simple app marks my very first step towards GUI Programming with wxWidgets .
source:
– Mingw Compiler ( Minimal GNU for windows )
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