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Compiling wxWidgets on Ubuntu 9.04

Hi I did fine with Ubuntu 9.04 for a month and then things went wrong and I could no longer compile programs though others on the same distro could so I reinstalled Ubuntu 9.04. First step is to compile wxWidgets. Before this was automatic sudo make install libgtk2.0-dev, download wxGTK from wxWidgets then compile and make wxWidgets. Now I can't even do that, I get make errors every time and as soon as I resolve one. another shows. Widgets version 2-8-10 is the same as before. Does anyone know a current address for a tutorial getting widgets to compile with Ubuntu, I don't know whether to ask you, Ubuntu or Widgets (or understand what went wrong with Ubuntu in the first place.

Thanks

Might be easier to help if you posted the error message. It's likely something simple like a missing dev package on your system.

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Originally Posted by weibullguy (Post 3623147)

Might be easier to help if you posted the error message. It's likely something simple like a missing dev package on your system.

Thanks "libwx_baseu_xml-2.8" "undefined reference" appears many times. But only the wxGTK-dev package was needed first time I built on Widgets on Linux.

Well, that's not usually much information to go on. Generally, when you post the output of failed makes, its a good idea to post the last 20-30 lines of output. Sometimes even more depending on where the actual error occurs. In this case, you could have gone to this page and found that libwx_baseu_xml-2.8 is provided by the libwxbase package. Do you have that package and its associated -dev package installed?

Well in Ubuntu you usually need to install build-essential package to compile packages from source. Did you install that?
Just a thought though.

Hi

some make output below. Yes had libwxbase and dev package already.... running this from the directory I unpacked wxGTK to Desktop/wxGTK-2.8.10 (what I did before)

Thanks

Code:

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/gale/Desktop/wxGTK-2.8.10/utils/wxrc'

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wxrc.cpp:(.text._ZN15XRCWndClassDataC1ERK8wxStringS2_PK9wxXmlNode[XRCWndClassData::XRCWndClassData(wxString const&, wxString const&, wxXmlNode const*)]+0x53e): undefined reference to `wxStringBase::InitWith(char const*, unsigned int, unsigned int)'

wxrc.cpp:(.text._ZN15XRCWndClassDataC1ERK8wxStringS2_PK9wxXmlNode[XRCWndClassData::XRCWndClassData(wxString const&, wxString const&, wxXmlNode const*)]+0x5a5): undefined reference to `wxString::Cmp(char const*) const'

wxrc.cpp:(.text._ZN15XRCWndClassDataC1ERK8wxStringS2_PK9wxXmlNode[XRCWndClassData::XRCWndClassData(wxString const&, wxString const&, wxXmlNode const*)]+0x5dd): undefined reference to `wxStringBase::InitWith(char const*, unsigned int, unsigned int)'

wxrc.cpp:(.text._ZN15XRCWndClassDataC1ERK8wxStringS2_PK9wxXmlNode[XRCWndClassData::XRCWndClassData(wxString const&, wxString const&, wxXmlNode const*)]+0x5f1): undefined reference to `wxStringHash::wxCharStringHash(char const*)'

wxrc.cpp:(.text._ZN15XRCWndClassDataC1ERK8wxStringS2_PK9wxXmlNode[XRCWndClassData::XRCWndClassData(wxString const&, wxString const&, wxXmlNode const*)]+0x771): undefined reference to `wxString::Cmp(char const*) const'

wxrc.cpp:(.text._ZN15XRCWndClassDataC1ERK8wxStringS2_PK9wxXmlNode[XRCWndClassData::XRCWndClassData(wxString const&, wxString const&, wxXmlNode const*)]+0x7aa): undefined reference to `wxStringBase::InitWith(char const*, unsigned int, unsigned int)'

wxrc.cpp:(.text._ZN15XRCWndClassDataC1ERK8wxStringS2_PK9wxXmlNode[XRCWndClassData::XRCWndClassData(wxString const&, wxString const&, wxXmlNode const*)]+0x7be): undefined reference to `wxStringHash::wxCharStringHash(char const*)'

wxrc.cpp:(.text._ZN15XRCWndClassDataC1ERK8wxStringS2_PK9wxXmlNode[XRCWndClassData::XRCWndClassData(wxString const&, wxString const&, wxXmlNode const*)]+0x8ae): undefined reference to `wxStringBase::InitWith(char const*, unsigned int, unsigned int)'

wxrc.cpp:(.text._ZN15XRCWndClassDataC1ERK8wxStringS2_PK9wxXmlNode[XRCWndClassData::XRCWndClassData(wxString const&, wxString const&, wxXmlNode const*)]+0x8c2): undefined reference to `wxStringHash::wxCharStringHash(char const*)'

wxrc_wxrc.o:(.rodata._ZTV9XmlResApp[vtable for XmlResApp]+0x44): undefined reference to `wxAppConsole::Initialize(int&, char**)'

/home/gale/Desktop/wxGTK-2.8.10/lib/libwx_base_xml-2.8.so: undefined reference to `wxString::CmpNoCase(char const*) const'

/home/gale/Desktop/wxGTK-2.8.10/lib/libwx_base_xml-2.8.so: undefined reference to `wxString::wxString(wchar_t const*, wxMBConv const&, unsigned int)'

/home/gale/Desktop/wxGTK-2.8.10/lib/libwx_base-2.8.so: undefined reference to `wx_regfree'

/home/gale/Desktop/wxGTK-2.8.10/lib/libwx_base-2.8.so: undefined reference to `wx_re_exec'

/home/gale/Desktop/wxGTK-2.8.10/lib/libwx_base_xml-2.8.so: undefined reference to `wxString::Find(char const*) const'

/home/gale/Desktop/wxGTK-2.8.10/lib/libwx_base_xml-2.8.so: undefined reference to `wxCSConv::wxCSConv(char const*)'

/home/gale/Desktop/wxGTK-2.8.10/lib/libwx_base-2.8.so: undefined reference to `wx_re_comp'

/home/gale/Desktop/wxGTK-2.8.10/lib/libwx_base-2.8.so: undefined reference to `wx_regerror'

/home/gale/Desktop/wxGTK-2.8.10/lib/libwx_base_xml-2.8.so: undefined reference to `wxString::BeforeFirst(char) const'

/home/gale/Desktop/wxGTK-2.8.10/lib/libwx_base_xml-2.8.so: undefined reference to `wxString::wc_str(wxMBConv const&) const'

collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

make[1]: *** [wxrc] Error 1

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/gale/Desktop/wxGTK-2.8.10/utils/wxrc'

make: *** [wxrc] Error 2

gale@gale-desktop:~/Desktop/wxGTK-2.8.10$

It appears now the problem may have been that I had done sudo apt-get build-dep for the app I was wanting to build which depends on wxWidgets. When I compiled the app (after installing various libwx dev and dbg packages) it compiled without my having compiled wxWidgets. Does this make any sense, and what are dbg packages? I noticed the app was built with widgets 2.8.9 not the 2.8.10 I was trying to build. What would I do now to build the app with 2.8.10? I have almost no clue about paths on Linux as I know windows (as per username).

Thanks