[JOY] wxWindows

[David Fraser]

Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:

>Folks,
>
>Last night I managed to compile, link, and successfully run
>all(1) samples that come with wxWindows.
>
>In all honesty I am overjoyed! Let me explain why:
>
Excellent news!

>  -- wxWindows is a large piece of software that touches on
>     most (if not all) Wine aspects. It does put our headers
>     through their paces.
>  -- The porting effort has been simple, and it took me
>     a just a few days to do it.
>  -- I have not used _any_ of the previous efforts to port
>     wxWindows to Wine. I rather started with their MinGW port.
>  -- Most of the changes have been trivial fixes for Wine
>     which I have sent to wine-patches in the last few days.
>  -- The hacks to wxWindows have been trivial and few in
>     number. I have touched only a few files, and the
>     changes are real simple. They'll need some cleaning up,
>     and I'll submit them to the wxWindows folks for inclusion.
>  -- The wine{gcc,wrap} combo is a great success. All I had
>     to do was to touch only *one* file (makeg95.env), and
>     modify only a few lines to get *everything* to compile
>     and link.
>
>What does Wine get out of it:
>  -- A good test for our headers
>  -- Proof that wine{gcc,wrap} are a good idea (at least for me)
>  -- A large number of sample that show quite a few problems in Wine.
>
>If anyone is interested in more details please let me know, and I'll
>be glad to provide them. Once we decide on the __WINE__ vs. __WINESRC__
>thing, I'll cleanup the wxWindows changes and submit them for inclusion
>in their tree, so hopefully you'll be able to play with it using the
>official version not before long.
>
I'd be very interested in this, as I use wxWindows alot in my work...
This means we can try compile our app like this (it already kind of works
using wxGTK, but this will be interesting too)
Thanks a lot...

David