On 03/02/2026 19:24, Jon Turney wrote:
On 25/03/2025 16:46, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin-announce wrote:
Version 3.1.5-2 of "wxWidgets3.1" has been uploaded as a test package.
wxWidgets3.1 is a cross-platform GUI toolkit for GTK written in C++.
[..]
This update brings wxWidgets 3.1, while keeping the old wxWidgets3.0
package for compatibility.
Belated thanks for this update!
Cheers!
The git repository at
https://cygwin.org/git-cygwin-packages/?p=git/cygwin-packages/
wxWidgets3.1.git;a=summary
has also been updated.
There are quite a lot of changes here, and I will be testing manually,
so I would very much like feedback if anyone finds any problems with
these packages. I will mark them as stable in a few weeks if no issues
I took (another) look at updating poedit wich uses wxWidgets (and
needs rebuilding or removing as it's the only thing holding an ancient
version of boost in the distro).
I thought I'd try with wxWidgets 3.1, to see if that helps with other
problems.
First off, configure fails. This seems to be due to:
$ wx-config-3.1 --cflags
-I/usr/local/lib/wx/include/gtk3-unicode-3.1
-I/usr/local/include/wx-3.1 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DWXUSINGDLL
-D__WXGTK__
I'm not sure how 'local' got in there, but I don't think that's right!
No, I wasn't sure either, hence I never promoted this to stable. I've
since realised I need extra configure options, but it doesn't build any
more, sadly. See my "help wanted" messages to the list for more details
if you like. I'll give it another go at some point. Unfortunately I
don't think I really have the time or skill to sort out the compilation
issues.
Secondly, wxUSE_FSWATCHER doesn't seem to get defined.
Not sure if that's expected? Using the windows backend for
filewatching probably requires some extra work with file conversions,
but the generic polling backend should be usable?
I think this might have something to do with sys/epoll.h being missing,
if memory serves. I think that might simply be something that's not
available on Cygwin, I'm not sure.
Then I run into some wchar_t/wxstring conversion issues which I'm not
sure should be happening in a unicode build, but seem fixable...
(You can see where I got to at
https://cygwin.com/cgit/cygwin-packages/poedit/tree/?h=playground, if
you're interested)
I wonder if a build of wxWIdgets 3.2 might fix the problem. I shall give
that a go. Unfortunately due to the stack watcher being unsupported on
Cygwin (IIRC), newer versions of wxPython may be a no-go.
are reported and I find no problems myself. The doc package may be
incomplete as doxygen kept hanging while generating the documents. If
anyone can shed any light on why that's started to happen, that would
also be great.
I think Takashi finally managed to squash the bug underlying hang
problems with doxygen, so hopefully this now works!
Excellent, I shall test that.
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