Cross Platform c++ gui programming

djadhav · 05-23-2004, 09:22 AM

HI all,

I am trying to write a program in C++ which implements gui, which will be platformm independent. For that purpose, I downloaded a library named as FoxToolKit

It gives a lot examples. They are precomplied and they run. But when I try to compile it by myself, they give a hell lot of errors

.

Please help me..... or atleast give me some info of other platform independent gui library if you know about how to work on it.....HELP!!!

The_Nerd · 05-23-2004, 02:21 PM

Well, as far as I know the following GUI libraries are OS indepentant:

wxWindows
Gtk-2.0
Qt

I don't know any others, but I am sure there are.

Can't help you any other way because you didn't post any of your errors. Sorry.

Mara · 05-23-2004, 02:24 PM

Please show part of the errors. Probably there's an issue with libraries location or another thing that can be quite easily fixed.

melinda_sayang · 05-23-2004, 07:17 PM

www.gtkmm.org

djadhav · 05-23-2004, 11:22 PM

hi,
i got the method to compile the thing on a site which says( I have made two file mywindow.cpp and mywindow.h and I am trying to compile them ) :-

" Replace $FOX_PREFIX with the directory you gave as

--prefix

to fox'es ./configure script (usually /usr/local):

g++ -I$FOX_PREFIX/include/fox -o mywindow mywindow.cpp main.cpp -L$FOX_PREFIX/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lFOX -lX11 -lXext -lm "

Can anybody tell me the meaning of the first three lines.........also when I did so ,following error came:-

[devendra@apple mywindow]$ g++ -I$FOX_PREFIX/include/fox -o mywindow mywindow.cpp main.cpp -L$FOX_PREFIX/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lFOX -lX11 -lXext -lm
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lFOX
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

what is -lFOX here??

please help me out as it is very important for my project.....

Galik · 05-24-2004, 04:05 AM

Okay you need to find the FOX installation on your system. My gues is that FOX_PREFIX is "/usr" but it could also be "/usr/local" you need to literally *replace* the $FOX_PREFIX with that value. Try:

Code:

g++ -I/usr/include/fox -o mywindow mywindow.cpp main.cpp -L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lFOX -lX11 -lXext -lm "

If that doesn't work try:

Code:

g++ -I/usr/local/include/fox -o mywindow mywindow.cpp main.cpp -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lFOX -lX11 -lXext -lm "

If you still got problems the try to find where the install put the FOX library. Maybe try this:

Code:

find /usr -name "libFOX*"

The output of that should give you a nclue as to what the --prefix was...

Hope this helps.

keefaz · 05-24-2004, 05:30 AM

and make sure your FOX path library is in /etc/ld.so.conf, maybe you need to run ldconfig as root also

djadhav · 05-25-2004, 01:50 AM

hi,
tried all that but nothing good happened........again the same error.......it doesn't recognise the -lFOX command and gives the same error which i posted before......

Galik · 05-25-2004, 02:15 AM

Okay can you give some more information.

What Linux distro are you using?
What's the output of the command

Code:

find /usr -name "libFOX*"

?

From your error output it looks like it's failing at the linking stage which means it's compiling okay but can't find the FOX library to build an executable with. We need to find out where that library is on your system.