makefiles

on microsoft windows, wxwidgets has a different set of makefiles for each compiler, because each compiler's 'make' tool is slightly different. popular windows compilers that we cater for, and the corresponding makefile extensions, include: microsoft visual c++ (.vc), borland c++ (.bcc), openwatcom c++ (.wat) and mingw/cygwin (.gcc). makefiles are provided for the wxwidgets library itself, samples, demos, and utilities.

on linux, mac and os/2, you use the 'configure' command to generate the necessary makefiles. you should also use this method when building with mingw/cygwin on windows.

we also provide project files for some compilers, such as microsoft vc++. however, we recommend using makefiles to build the wxwidgets library itself, because makefiles can be more powerful and less manual intervention is required.

on windows using a compiler other than mingw/cygwin, you would build the wxwidgets library from the build/msw directory which contains the relevant makefiles.

on windows using mingw/cygwin, and on unix, macos x and os/2, you invoke 'configure' (found in the top-level of the wxwidgets source hierarchy), from within a suitable empty directory for containing makefiles, object files and libraries.

for details on using makefiles, configure, and project files, please see docs/xxx/install.txt in your distribution, where xxx is the platform of interest, such as msw, gtk, x11, mac.