Comments on: How to Compile and Install wxWidgets on Ubuntu/Debian/Linux Mint

By: Ove Fransson

Ove Fransson — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 15:43:36 +0000

I am completely new and do not understand exactly how to do this. Can someone explain

stugan@raspberrypi:~/Hämtningar/gtk-build $ ../configure –disable-shared –enable-unicode
bash: ../configure: Filen eller katalogen finns inte

By: Karsten

Karsten — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 17:16:14 +0000

In reply to David.

Ignore the line: “$ compile samples”, it’s only a comment

start with: cd samples/
an then: make

it works fine!

By: David

David — Sun, 21 Nov 2021 10:51:42 +0000

I entered the compile samples command
$compile samples and got:-
bash: compile: command not found
Im using ‘wxWidgets-3.1.5’ on a debian10 distro called bunsen-labs
I’ve nothing on the net that solves this prolem.

By: Alan8

Alan8 — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 20:47:47 +0000

When I type “make” I get dozens of lines like:

“../src/gtk/verti.xbm:6:38: error: narrowing conversion of ‘132’ from ‘int’ to ‘char’ inside { } [-Wnarrowing]”

followed by “../src/gtk/verti.xbm:6:38: error: narrowing conversion of ‘132’ from ‘int’ to ‘char’ inside { } [-Wnarrowing]”.
Repeating make does the same thing. No clue how to fix it. (Damn I hate Linux!)

By: Maurizio

Maurizio — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 06:01:15 +0000

Worked so fine out of the box.
I tried the whole morning to compile it with Codeblock under Linux, but i failed.
Somebody knows how to config Codeblock to compile successfully this code?

By: Brian Birmingham

Brian Birmingham — Sun, 10 May 2020 15:36:16 +0000

Very useful. Everything worked exactly as written. Thank you!

By: jorge

jorge — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 14:34:52 +0000

must eliminate a dot in the sentence ../configure –disable-shared –enable-unicode

the correct is ./configure –disable-shared –enable-unicode

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 00:00:57 +0000

Another thank you for putting this up. Didn’t know which version of the PPA to use so tried this guide and it worked first time.

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 07:17:36 +0000

Thank you sir for putting publishing this.

By: Henry

Henry — Sat, 29 Oct 2016 22:51:18 +0000

In reply to Tom.

System libraries can vary between distributions… static and dynamic linking to the wrong versions can cause significant problems. Compiling from sources using the local environment is quite often desirable for this reason. Secondly (although not so important here) is the ability to fine tune build configurations… a good example of this is vim which has many possible flavors based on compile time flags.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 02 May 2016 17:36:48 +0000

Very useful, especially so if you are going to be developing in C++. Adds enough to get started, something a simple PPA install would not do.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 06:07:07 +0000

In reply to Rijan Macapaz Gaurano. Exactly, I do not get folks who feel compelled to post lengthy articles on "compiling" things when installing from PPA is much, much simpler.

By: Rijan Macapaz Gaurano

Rijan Macapaz Gaurano — Tue, 12 May 2015 03:21:00 +0000

why compile when you can just install it via ppa.