Hello, I'm new to wxLua and have spent last days compiling it "just right". So, I'm posting this report in hope it will help anyone who has problems similar to mine.
Intro. SciTE editor (http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html) is a Scintilla based source code editor, it supports all Scintilla features and is highly configurable. It has built-in Lua interpreter (merged into SciTE.exe) and provides Lua scripts control over Scintilla component, though not in the way wxSTC does, its not wxWidgets-compatible. So, the idea was to provide SciTE with wxLua capabilities using as few DLL's as possible and utilizing its internal Lua capabilities. And here goes "how-to" manual, detailed to the limit of being offensive. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 0. Prerequisites: Free downloadables (all native default packages): MS Visual C++ 2008 Express wxWidgets 2.8.11 source wxLua 2.8.10.0 source SciTE editor unpack wxWidgets to C:\wxWidgets unpack wxLua to C:\wxLua create WXWIN environment variable and set it to 'C:\wxWidgets' (no quotes in value) 1. Make BUILD.BAT to compile makefile.vc call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" nmake /s /f makefile.vc 2. Go to C:\wxWidgets\build\msw\ config.vc: SHARED = 1 WXUNIV = 0 UNICODE = 0 MSLU = 0 BUILD = release TARGET_CPU = $(CPU) DEBUG_INFO = default DEBUG_FLAG = default DEBUG_RUNTIME_LIBS = default MONOLITHIC = 1 USE_GUI = 1 USE_HTML = 1 USE_MEDIA = 1 USE_XRC = 1 USE_AUI = 1 USE_RICHTEXT = 1 USE_OPENGL = 1 USE_ODBC = 1 USE_QA = 1 USE_EXCEPTIONS = 1 USE_RTTI = 0 USE_THREADS = 1 USE_CAIRO = 0 USE_GDIPLUS = 0 OFFICIAL_BUILD = 0 VENDOR = custom WX_FLAVOUR = WX_LIB_FLAVOUR = CFG = CPPUNIT_CFLAGS = CPPUNIT_LIBS = RUNTIME_LIBS = dynamic 3. Run BUILD.BAT and build it (when I say 'run BUILD.BAT' I mean copy it in this folder and start it from here) 4. Go C:\wxWidgets\contrib\build\ogl and run BUILD.BAT 5. Go C:\wxWidgets\contrib\build\stc and run BUILD.BAT (some warnings may happen - its ok) 6. Go C:\wxWidgets\lib\vc_dll Rename wxmsw28_ogl.lib to wxmsw28_gl.lib 7. Go C:\wxLua\modules\build\msw makefile.vc: set config at file beginning as following CC = cl CXX = cl CFLAGS = CXXFLAGS = CPPFLAGS = LDFLAGS = BUILD = release UNICODE = 0 SHARED = 1 WX_SHARED = 1 WX_VERSION = 28 WX_MONOLITHIC = 1 WX_DIR = $(WXWIN) USE_APPS = 0 USE_SYSTEM_LUA = 0 LUA_INCLUDE_DIR = ..\..\..\modules\lua\include LUA_LIB_DIR = ..\..\..\modules\lua\lib RUNTIME_LIBS = dynamic THREADING = multi USE_WXBINDADV = 1 USE_WXBINDAUI = 1 USE_WXBINDBASE = 1 USE_WXBINDCORE = 1 USE_WXBINDGL = 1 USE_WXBINDHTML = 1 USE_WXBINDMEDIA = 1 USE_WXBINDNET = 1 USE_WXBINDRICHTEXT = 1 USE_WXBINDSTC = 1 USE_WXBINDXML = 1 USE_WXBINDXRC = 1 USE_WXLUADEBUG = 1 USE_WXLUASOCKET = 0 USE_LUAMODULE = 1 MONOLITHIC_LUAMODULE = 1 USE_WXLUAAPP = 0 USE_WXLUACANAPP = 0 WXSTEDIT_DIR = $(WXSTEDIT) USE_WXLUAEDITAPP = 0 USE_WXLUAFREEZEAPP = 0 makefile.vc: scroll to line "..\..\..\lib\vc_$(VAR_205)\lua5.1.dll: make_dir_lua_dll $(LUA_DLL_OBJECTS)" and fix "/OUT" argument on line after this one as following /OUT:..\..\..\lib\vc_$(VAR_205)\SciTE.exe this will enable to use SciTE.exe as a host app for wxLUA (instead of lua5.1.dll) 8. (Optional) Disable wxSTC component (cause SciTE is built on Scintilla anyway and you probably wont need one more text editor inside) Go C:\wxLua\modules\build\msw makefile.vc: set config at file beginning as in [7], only change CPPFLAGS = /DwxLUA_USEBINDING_WXSTC^#0 scroll to line " vcmsw$(WXLIBPOSTFIX)$(_BUILDDIR_SHARED_SUFFIX)\mod_luamodule_mono_wxstc_bind.obj \" and put '#' in front of it to comment this line out 9. run BAT and build wxLua 10. Now we done compiling. The result is 3 dll files (or 2 if you disabled wxSTC): C:\wxWidgets\lib\vc_dll\wxmsw28_vc_custom.dll (around 6Mb) C:\wxWidgets\lib\vc_dll\wxmsw28_stc_vc_custom.dll (optional) C:\wxLua\lib\vc_dll\wx.dll (2-3 Mb) 11. Install wxLua as a module to SciTE Put all 3 (or 2) dll's into SciTE installation folder (where SciTE.exe is) Open 'SciTEGlobal.properties' and make sure startup lua script is set: ext.lua.startup.script=$(SciteDefaultHome)\Startup.lua Create/edit 'Startup.lua', adding following lines: package.cpath = package.cpath..";./?.dll;" require("wx") Close and restart SciTE.exe - if no error message boxes pops up and no error messages in output window of SciTE, installation is successful 12. Test wxLua from SciTE. Open 'lua.properties' config file and scroll to the bottom of it. Make sure SciTE will use internal LUA interpreter to run *.lua files - insert following 2 lines at the end of a file command.go.*.lua=dofile $(FileNameExt) command.go.subsystem.*.lua=3 Restart SciTE and open some *.lua from 'C:\wxLua\samples' Hit F5 to start file execution note: editor.wx.lua wont run if you disable wxSTC. Also i had problems with 'controls.wx.lua' (some controls and events wont work) -------------------------------------------------------- Conclusion. To allow SciTE run several Lua scripts at once look here: http://lua-users.org/wiki/SciteExtMan It would be nice to also have wxSTC interface to SciTE's Scintilla component, but it's highly unlikely for SciTE author to switch into using wxWidgets and would require otherwise creating bindings from Lua to Scintilla directly, while emulating wxWidgets framework, which is way beyond my capabilities. Also I'd like to mention I never worked outside of Windows© so i wont be able to 'translate' this how-to into $(YOUR_OS_OF_CHOICE). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ wxlua-users mailing list wxlua-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wxlua-users
