Building wxWidgets with DialogBlocks on Ubuntu Linux

In my Previous Post I setup wxWidgets with DialogBlocks on Windows for C++ GUI Application Development.Here I will be doing same thing on Ubuntu Linux , mostly Highlighting Major Differences.You can see DialogBlocks specific Details in my previous Post meant for Windows and they should Apply to Linux Version of DialogBlocks without any Difference.


In Ubuntu Synaptic Package Manager ,
Remember to have Packages like build-essential , g++ and gcc Installed
These Make up your C++ Compiler.

Now Select All Packages that Begin with,
libgtk2.0
They should be 7 in Number in Ubuntu 9.10

Download Latest wxWidgets from,
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wxwindows/wxWidgets-2.8.10.tar.bz2
Or If its not the Latest , you can get Latest wxWidgets Source from,
http://www.wxwidgets.org/downloads/

Extract and Place wxWidgets-2.8.10 in /home/yourname (yourname means yourname not mine :)
For E.g. -> My Folder Structure becomes /home/rohit/wxwidgets-2.8.10/
Yours may be something like /home/buffoon/wxwidgets-2.8.10 :)

Next , Download,
https://svn.wxwidgets.org/viewvc/wx/wxWidgets/branches/WX_2_8_BRANCH/src/gtk/gsockgtk.cpp?revision=61009
And Put "gsockgtk.cpp" in /home/rohit/wxwidgets-2.8.10/src/gtk/ . Replace the Old File
Again , You should see here http://www.wxwidgets.org/downloads/ to see If this step is necessary in the Latest Version.

Download and Install DialogBlocks for your Linux Distribution.Their are Releases Available for Ubuntu,RedHat,Fedora,Sun etc.
http://www.dialogblocks.com/download.htm

Make New Project in DialogBlocks ( See My Previous Blog Post on Windows for Details)
Just Hit "Standard" and Select Compiler to GCC and Select 4 Standard Configurations When Compiler Configuration Step comes.Remember you Selected MinGW in Windows Version , but Here in Linux you need to Select GCC.

Now Back in DialogBlocks,
In Build -> Configurations -> Paths
Set WXWIN to /home/rohit/wxWidgets-2.8.10/
Remember , I put Here rohit , You should be probably putting here Your Name :)

In Drop-Down in Top-Right Select "GCC Unicode Release"
Then Hit,
Build -> Build wxWidgets
If you See any Warnings then Hit Build -> Build wxWidgets Again and they will be gone.

In Drop-Down in Top-Right Select "GCC Unicode Debug"
Then Hit,
Build -> Build wxWidgets
If you See any Warnings then Hit Build -> Build wxWidgets Again and they will be gone.
We have now built both Debug and Release Versions.

Again , In the Drop-Down in Top-Right Select "GCC Unicode Release"
You can Now Build your Project with F8 and Run with F9