Using Eclipse with package Wascana and Mingw

First install Wascana. This gives you a read to use Mingw environment to use. But wxArt2D wants a static build of wxWidgets (debug and release or best).

Next install wxMSW in order to compile a debug version of wxWidgets for Mingw.

Start a shell:

c:\tools\Wascana\msys\msys.bat

This will open in your home directory, and in windows that is something like: c:\Documents and Settings\klaas\My Documents\Wascana Workspaces\home\klaas\
So i installed wxMSW-2.8.9-Setup.exe into that directory as wxwin. In your MSYS unix shell, you now type:

• cd wxwin
• cd ..
• mkdir debugbuild
• cd debugbuild
• ../wxwin/configure --enable-debug --enable-debug-gdb --disable-shared
• make
• make install
• cd contrib
• make
• make install

In case of release use:

• ./configure --disable-shared

Now extend your path in order to find wx-config from here: PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH

Now use c:/tools/cmake/bin/CMakeSetup.exe to generate project files for your Eclipse IDE.

• Where is the source code: C:\soft\wxartcvs\wxArt2D

• Where to build the binaries: C:\soft\wxartcvs\wx288eclip

The generator type to use is: Eclipse CDT4 - Unix Makefiles

One of the Cache values should be: wxWidgets_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE C:/tools/Wascana/msys/local/bin/wx-config The option wxWidgest_USE_DEBUG should be set to OFF, if you want to work with release build later on.

After CMakeSetup.exe has finished, you can make wxArt2D, by typing make in C:\soft\wxartcvs\wx288eclip

See for more on Mingw installation: http://max.berger.name/howto/wxWidgets/wxWidgets_MinGW.jsp