wxWidgets and GTK - installing

[griptypethyne]

In order to compile a program called Proximodo I need wxWidgets >= 2.5.3, which in turn needs gtk >= 1.2.3.

 

I am running MDK10.1.

 

I tried installing libgtk+2.0_0-devel-2.4.9-9mdk with rpmdrake but it would not install as two freetype6 packages had bad mdsums.

 

I then successfully installed version 1.2.10 of gtk using rpmdrake.

 

I have located and downloaded wxAll-2.5.3.tar.gz and have unzipped it. When I cd to the wxWidgets directory and enter

 

./configure --with-gtk --enable-gtk2 (parameters from another forum)

 

I receive a message saying that gtk is not installed correctly. It recommends that I run gtk-configure --libs and enter the path into LD-LIBRARY-PATH.

 

I run gtk-configure and get

 

-L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtk -lgdk -rdynamic -lgmodule -lglib -ldl -lXi -lXext -lX11 -lm

 

I am not sure how to interpret the above.

 

Finally, when I do a file search I can find the gtk 1.2 header files, but not the library files.

 

Please, can anyone help me? Everything else in Linux is set up how I want it (after nearly 12 months of at times frustrating work) and once I have Proximodo running I will be able to delete my Windows partition (-;

 

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[griptypethyne]

I a still interested in compiling wxWidgets --with-gtk. However, in frustration I tried

 

./configure --with-x11 and wxWidgets compiled.

 

I was then able to compile and run Proximodo. There a a few minor problems with text on the GUI. I wonder if the problems will be fixed by compiling wxWidgets --with-gtk?

 

:D :

[griptypethyne]

I have homed in on my problem and can now be more specific. I hope that means that someone will reply :D

 

I cd to the wxWidgets directory and ./configure --with-gtk --enable--gtk

 

./configure fails because the gtk test program does not run. The reason for the latter is that it cannot find gtk.h.

 

gtk-config --cflags gives

 

-I/usr/include/gtk-1.2 -I/usr/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/lib/glib/include -I/usr/X11R6/include

 

Checking the wxWidgets config.log file shows that the test program specifies #include <gtk/gtk.h>

Therefore I assume that the compiler will look for /usr/include/gtk-1.2/gtk/gtk.h

 

A file search locates /usr/include/gtk-1.2/gtk/gtk.h

 

The comand used to compile the test program is

 

gcc -o conftest -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGE_FILES conftest.c >&5

 

The --cflags are not passed to the compiler.

 

 

Can someone help me please

[adamw]

You don't have the GTK+ development libraries installed. You need to install libgtk+-1.2-devel (approximately, I'm not at a Linux machine).

 

I'm interested in your initial problem, however; MDK does have wxGTK packages, you should have been able to install these (and their -devel packages too) and then compile Proximodo against those MDK packages. You almost certainly have libfreetype6 already, it'd be an odd working system without it; maybe your urpmi sources are a little confused? If you could go into more detail about your urpmi sources and the precise packages that failed to install, we could resolve that problem too.

[griptypethyne]

You don't have the GTK+ development libraries installed. You need to install libgtk+-1.2-devel (approximately, I'm not at a Linux machine).

 

I'm interested in your initial problem, however; MDK does have wxGTK packages, you should have been able to install these (and their -devel packages too) and then compile Proximodo against those MDK packages. You almost certainly have libfreetype6 already, it'd be an odd working system without it; maybe your urpmi sources are a little confused? If you could go into more detail about your urpmi sources and the precise packages that failed to install, we could resolve that problem too.

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libgtk+-1.2.... is installed. . gtk-config --version returns 1.2.10.

 

I appear to have wxGTK.....2.5.1 (not development version) installed. I went into rpmdrake and found it in the Delete Packages section. I assume that to compile wxWidgets I need the development version of gtk?

 

My urpmi sources do have wxGTK development version 2.5.1. I have not installed it because Proximodo requires >=2.5.3. I wonder if the micro number really matters. I am tempted to try it.

 

I have discovered that I need to add the parameter --disable-gtk2 to ./configure

 

i.e. ./configure --with-gtk enable-gtk --disable-gtk2

 

The gtk include files are in usr/include/gtk-1.2/gtk which is not in the SEARCH_INCLUDE list in the configure script. I therefore run

 

export CFLAGS=<result of gtk-config --cflags>

 

Currently the gtk test program in ./configure generates syntax errors such as

 

conftest.c: In function `main':

conftest.c:81: error: syntax error before ')' token

 

The config.log file also lists mspack.h as not found.

 

Sorry if the above is disjointed but I seem to have been going around in circles. I hope that it gives you some clues about what I am doing wrong or what I should check next.

 

Thanks

[aioshin]

try the packages here ftp://ftp.lug.ro/people/mirceac/mdk-Ultraupdates/10.1/

you may add this into your rpm source also. I was able to install 2.5.3 from this source using rpm

[griptypethyne]

try the packages here ftp://ftp.lug.ro/people/mirceac/mdk-Ultraupdates/10.1/

you may add this into your rpm source also. I was able to install 2.5.3 from this source using rpm

Thanks for that. The problem is that I need the development version (ie libraries + header files) and I could not see one on that site.

 

In desperation I used urpmi to install wxgtk-devel-2.5.1. It did not solve the Proximodo compile problem. In frustration I then repeated, yet again, the compile process for wxGTK 2.5.3 and left the room. When I came back wxGTK 2.5.3 was installed! I do not know if the two events are related. I am not confident that I could repeat the install.

 

By looking at the ./configure and make install messages, looking at config.log and running wx-config I am 99% confident that wxGTK 2.5.3 is installed.

 

I then tried to compile Proximodo. All .cpp files now compild. Unfortunately the linker goes crazy and generates screenfuls of eror messages. It seems that I have a library problem.