wx-config-msys2

wx-config tool for MSYS2 based installation of wxWidgets using the mingw64 repository

About

The puropse is tool is to allow easy integration between IDEs and wxWidgets installed via MSYS2 pacman from the mingw64 repository.

Usually, you will install wxWidgets via pacman using commands similar to this:

pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain
pacman -S mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake
pacman -S git
pacman -S mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-wxmsw3.1
pacman -S mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-gdb

The above should install:

mingw64 toolchain (make, gcc, g++ etc)
mingw64 cmake
git (placed under /usr/bin/git)
wxWidgets 3.1 placed under /mingw64/lib/
gdb

All the tools placed under /mingw64/ can be used from a CMD terminal and do not require MSYS2 terminal (e.g. bash) The wx-config-msys2 is designed to produce build + link lines that are suitable to work with MinGW toolchain

Build

You will need the followings:

C++ compiler supporting c++20 or later installed and configured in the system path
cmake installed and configured in the system path
Open MSYS2 terminal, and run:

export PATH=/mingw64/bin:$PATH
mkdir build-release
cd build-release
cmake .. -G"MinGW Makefiles" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
mingw32-make -j24

Usage

Preface

Notice that you have 2 different wx-config tools:

wx-config-msys2.exe
wx-config.exe

Using `wx-config.exe`

Use this executable when you are building your application against wxWidgets built locally as described here

Using `wx-config-msys2.exe`

Use this executable when you are building your application against wxWidgets installed using pacman on MSYS2 environment:

pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-wxWidgets

Producing link line

wx-config-msys2 --libs --prefix=C:\msys2\mingw64

Producing compiler flags

wx-config-msys2 --cflags --prefix=C:\msys2\mingw64

Other options

Compile with debug:

wx-config-msys2 --cflags --prefix=C:\msys2\mingw64 --debug

eranif/wx-config-msys2