g++ arguments

[Stonehambey]

Hi,

This might seem like a really dumb question, but after installing and building wxWidgets I simply cannot get even a simple application to compile using g++, I had the best luck with

g++ -I<path to wxwidgets>/include -L:<path to wxwidgets> /lib <src files>

and managed to compile a simple console application that way. But when I tried to create a GUI application I got a whole load of errors.

I think I may have to add a -l flag, but I'll admit I don't know exactly what's needed there. On linux the `wx-config --cxxflags` `wx-config --libs` does the trick, but on windows it's being a right pain.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers

[rags_to_riches]

-L:<path to wxwidgets>

I don't think you should have a : in there.

[bernt]

I think I may have to add a -l flag

Probably, if the errors you're getting are something along the lines of "undefined reference".

I'd say for the time being, you can check the output of wx-config. It should print out a bunch of -l flags, just use those in windows g++ (assuming you have the -L path correct). Same with --cxxflags while you're at it.

[Stonehambey]

Yeah, they're all undefined references. Is there any way to check if my -L path is correct?

Google isn't really a huge help to someone who has no idea what they should be linking to etc, and there's literally too many library files to link to them all, you'd think there'd be an idiots guide out there (maybe I missed it). At the moment I'm just being frightened by all the nasty looking makefiles!

It can't be this hard surely, can it?