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authorAlbrecht Schlosser <albrechts.fltk@online.de>2016-10-16 21:04:24 +0000
committerAlbrecht Schlosser <albrechts.fltk@online.de>2016-10-16 21:04:24 +0000
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Documentation updates.
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-README.MSWindows.txt - 2010-10-25 - Building FLTK under Microsoft Windows
+README.MSWindows.txt - 2016-10-16 - Building FLTK under Microsoft Windows
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ README.MSWindows.txt - 2010-10-25 - Building FLTK under Microsoft Windows
3.5 Testing FLTK
3.6 Installing FLTK
3.7 Creating new Projects
- 4 HOW TO BUILD FLTK USING VISUAL STUDIO 2010
+ 4 HOW TO BUILD FLTK USING VISUAL STUDIO 2010 OR LATER
4.1 Prerequisites
4.2 Downloading and Unpacking
4.3 Configuring FLTK
@@ -44,16 +44,17 @@ README.MSWindows.txt - 2010-10-25 - Building FLTK under Microsoft Windows
FLTK 1.3 and later is officially supported on Windows (2000,) 2003,
XP, and later. Older Windows versions are not officially supported,
but may still work. The main reason is that the OS version needs
-to support UTF-8. FLTK 1.3 is known to work on Windows 7 and Vista.
+to support UTF-8. FLTK 1.3 is known to work on Windows Vista, Windows 7,
+Windows 8/8.1, and Windows 10.
FLTK currently supports the following development
environments on the Windows platform:
- - Free Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express and Visual
- C++ 2010 Express using the supplied workspace and
- project files. Older and the commercial versions can
- be used as well, if they can open the project files.
- Be sure to get your service packs!
+ - Free Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express and Visual C++ 2010 Express
+ using the supplied workspace and project files. Older and the
+ commercial versions can be used as well, if they can open the project
+ files. Visual C++ 2015 Express/Community can be used with the
+ Visual C++ 2010 project files. Be sure to get your service packs!
The project files can be found in the ide/ directory.
Please read ide/README.IDE for more info about this.
@@ -240,6 +241,7 @@ linking:
./configure <config flags> LDFLAGS=-Wl,--enable-auto-import
:END_ADVANCED
+
Known Problems:
There is a known incompatibility with some Windows subversion tools that
@@ -257,6 +259,7 @@ Known Problems:
For further information see this bug report:
http://www.fltk.org/newsgroups.php?gfltk.bugs+v:10197
+
Building FLTK
---------------
@@ -267,12 +270,6 @@ Now this is easy. Stay in your FLTK source-code directory and type:
The entire FLTK toolkit including many test programs will be built for you.
No warnings should appear.
-(actually, as of Oct 25 2010, quite a lot of warnings related to suggested
-parentheses and others will appear, this is normal and will be fixed. The
-linker will also spit out a bunch of warnings for every program linked. This
-needs to be fixed. Lastly, there is no generator for man pages in a default
-MinGW installation, but you can install man and groff to fix this.)
-
Testing FLTK
--------------
@@ -435,16 +432,16 @@ is changed, the corresponding .cxx file will be recompiled.
- HOW TO BUILD FLTK USING VISUAL STUDIO 2010
-============================================
+ HOW TO BUILD FLTK USING VISUAL STUDIO 2010 OR LATER
+====================================================
Prerequisites
---------------
-In order to build FLTK from within VisualStudio 2010, you need to install the
-VisualC developer environment from the Microsoft web site. The Express edition
-is free of charge and sufficient to develop FLTK applications:
+In order to build FLTK from within VisualStudio 2010 or later, you need to
+install the VisualC developer environment from the Microsoft web site. The
+Express edition is free of charge and sufficient to develop FLTK applications:
http://www.microsoft.com/express/Downloads/
@@ -644,4 +641,3 @@ Oct 25 2010 - matt: restructured entire document and verified instructions
Dec 20 2010 - matt: merged with README.win32
Dec 22 2010 - AlbrechtS: added newer Cygwin (cross/mingw-w64) options
Feb 24 2012 - AlbrechtS: clarified console window FAQ
-Jul 12 2015 - AlbrechtS: add abi-config.h to files to be copied