Am 21.02.2010 18:20, Peter Mileff wrote: >> >> On 20 Feb 2010, at 22:15, Peter Mileff wrote: >>> The reason I use the FLTK-2 is that the fltk-1.3 does not compiled >>> for me in Win32. I tried with mingw, but the make gived an error. >> >> That's very odd: do you know what revision of fltk-1.3 you were >> using? One of the weekly tarballs? Or a checkout from svn? >> >> FWIW, I use fltk-1.3 with mingw much of the time and never have any >> issues; I think Greg mainly uses VS2005 and he hasn't reported any >> issues. >> >> What build process did you follow? For VS, using the IDE files really >> should Just Work, and for mingw, I'd recommend using the Msys shell >> and just running the conventional "configure ; make ; make install" >> sequence of yore. >> >> That's certainly what I do...! > > Yes, I know. I use the fltk-1.3.x-r7100.tar.gz. The building process was the > following:
Reading your description, you've had bad luck with your decisions. Please read the comments below. > 1. Trying to use mingw to compile fltk. I copy the mingw Makefile and > makeinclude to the root of the source and run the mingw32-make.exe. I did not > use cygwin :-(, so I think that was the problem, because without cygwin > configure script cannot be run. You should really install MSYS together with MinGW. That's not Cygwin, but it includes autoconf, so that you can run the configure script. The included MinGW (and other) Makefiles are outdated and not under development any more. With MSYS (and for full support some optional packages that can easily be installed), it works flawlessly. > 2. Trying to build fltk using VisualStudio2005. I used the given project > file: fltk-1.3.x-r7100\ide\vc2005\ Again, bad luck. The apparently "older" project files in ide\visualc are more up-to-date, and if you use them (and convert the files to your version of VS) then this ought to work OOTB. > Firstly there were "missing include" errors. For example the project needs > the Cairo library, but my Visual Studio do not contained Cairo. I'm not using Visual Studio, but I think that there are different build versions included. Maybe the default has been set to Cairo (debug or release), but there are also debug and release versions w/o Cairo. > I downloaded from GTK+ web site, and copied the necessary files to my > VisualStudio. I can't tell you anything about this. > Secondly I had to copy the FLTK includes to my VisualStudio. After that the > source compiled successfully, but linking did not worked. There work 5 linker > error. :-( For example: > > fltkd.lib(Fl_Preferences.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol > "public: class Fl_Tree_Item * __thiscall Fl_Tree::add(char const *)" > (?...@fl_tree@@QAEPAVFl_Tree_Item@@p...@z) referenced in function "public: > char __thiscall Fl_Preferences::copyTo(class Fl_Tree *)" > (?cop...@fl_preferences@@QAEDPAVFl_Tree@@@Z) Unfortunately there's currently no one who can maintain the Visual Studio project files. Thus, you would have to add some source files yourself. We should really try to document this better. Thanks for your report. [If you want to try again: src\Fl_Table.cxx, src\Fl_Tree.cxx, and maybe one or two more. If you get problems, this is the place to ask.] > But I am not unhappy. I think this project is great, and I will use the > working fltk-2.0.x-r6970 version. I _strongly_ recommend NOT to use FLTK 2. FLTK 2 is not maintained any more, and the bug list is very long. If you would get problems later (and you will, trust me), there won't be anybody who can help you. Thus, for a new project, please use FLTK 1.1 (current stable version, using 8-bit characters, i.e. Windows Codepages or e.g. ISO-8859-1), or use the development version FLTK 1.3 that uses Unicode (UTF-8). You'll see that you will have much better support here in this forum. Sorry for the inconvenience, but if you try it, this will be worth the effort. Albrecht _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
