problem of lwxmsw

[young]

hi, I copied the "hello world" of wxwidgets from the web to C::B to compile, the message says "cannot find -lwxmsw", I would like to know the reason of this and what can I do about it,
cause I think the wxwidgets in the C::B I am using is a bit old.

[thomas]

Use -lwxmsw242 or -lwxmsw260 (or whatever matches the version you have).

[rickg22]

But that would make it a DLL version. Anyway, you need to compile wxwidgets into making a non-DLL lib, this one will be the libwxmsw.a you're looking for.

[thomas]

Static linkage to wxWidgets gives a ~1MB HelloWorld application...  (gulp)

[rickg22]

That's why the new templates have statically or dynamially linked wxWidgets so you can choose And Visual Basic programs are around 1MB too.  So it's not that bad.

[Urxae]

And Visual Basic programs are around 1MB too.  So it's not that bad.

What are you saying? That Visual Basic isn't bad? :lol:

[thomas]

Lol, Urxae 

Hey, who wants to join me on a new project? We write a Java virtual machine in Visual Basic and reimplement Code::Blocks in that environment.

[young]

But why is this a problem, is it because the new version changed the name of the file or something else?

[rickg22]

Not exactly, the new version just is more specific regarding what kind of wxwidgets library you want to link with. I think the old version only used the static wxwidgets library, but I don't remember well.

In any case, if you don't mind using the DLL, feel free to use the libwxmsw242 (number may vary depending on which wxwidgets version you're using)