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| author | Albrecht Schlosser <albrechts.fltk@online.de> | 2021-10-04 14:42:32 +0200 |
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| committer | Albrecht Schlosser <albrechts.fltk@online.de> | 2021-10-04 14:42:32 +0200 |
| commit | 10da46a5a62012fb6467ef48cc8cabd05690262a (patch) | |
| tree | 215a7efc4c2922d0d57c15b3c30f194000c86690 /lib/README.txt | |
| parent | cc82b742be31a377c88a997f830471e4a8c04fe0 (diff) | |
Improve documentation about library build folders and more
lib/README.txt: clarify where built libraries are located
documentation/src/basics.dox: clarify (C++) compiler command usage
and improve documentation of the fltk-config script
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/README.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/README.txt | 43 |
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/lib/README.txt b/lib/README.txt index 61779843f..24938befd 100644 --- a/lib/README.txt +++ b/lib/README.txt @@ -1,16 +1,27 @@ -README.lib ----------- - -This README file is a placeholder for library files on your -system. - -Under Microsoft Windows a successful build of all projects and -configurations will contain debug and release libraries for you -to link to - all are built using the multi-threaded DLL -settings. The DLL files (fltkdll.dll and fltkdlld.dll) required -for a complete DLL-based binary distribution are located in the -"visualc" directory. - -Under UNIX a single set of library files will be built, with or -without debug information depending on the options you provided -to the configure script. +lib/README.txt +-------------- + +This README file is a placeholder for FLTK library files on your system +if FLTK is built using 'configure' and 'make'. + + +Building FLTK with CMake + +If FLTK is built using CMake all static and shared libraries are created +in the 'lib' subdirectory of the build tree. We strongly recommend to +build with CMake outside the source tree ("out-of-tree") as described +in README.CMake.txt in the root folder of the FLTK distribution. + +If FLTK is built out-of-tree as recommende this folder will not be touched. + + +Building FLTK with configure + make + +Under UNIX/Linux and other systems that support 'configure' and 'make' +(e.g. MinGW, MSYS) a single set of library files will be built, with +or without debug information depending on the options you provided to +the configure script. + +The FLTK build system based on configure does not support out-of-tree +builds, hence the static libraries will be built in this 'lib' folder +and the shared libraries (if enabled) can be found in the 'src' folder. |