Albrecht, Ok, you are right, I will and should change to FLTK 1.1. Thank you for help. Keep up the good work! :-)
> 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 The included MinGW (and other) Makefiles are outdated and not under 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
