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diff --git a/README.win32 b/README.win32 index f4039f769..efc34443a 100644 --- a/README.win32 +++ b/README.win32 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ README.win32 - Building FLTK under Windows ------------------------------------------ -Last Update: May 2007 for release 1.1.8 +Last Update: July 2010 for release 1.3.x INTRODUCTION @@ -10,24 +10,30 @@ INTRODUCTION the GNU-like build configurations in the "makefiles" subdirectory. + 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. + FLTK currently supports the following development environments on the Windows platform: - - Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0, VC2005 and VC.NET using the - supplied workspace and 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. + Be sure to get your service packs! - - Borland C++ Builder 5 and 6 using the supplied IDE - files. These files are not as actively maintained as - the VC and GNU versions, so may not work for you. + The project files can be found in the ide/ directory. + Please read ide/README.IDE for more info about this. - - Watcom. There is a partial solution for the Watcom - toolchain. It is no longer actively maintained. + - GNU toolsets (Cygwin or MinGW) hosted on Windows. - - GNU toolsets (Cygwin or MinGW) hosted on Windows - 9x/2000/NT/XP. + - Watcom. There is a partial solution for the Watcom + toolchain. It is no longer actively maintained. - This remainder of this document gives a brief overview of + The remainder of this document gives a brief overview of compiling and using FLTK with the Cygwin and MinGW compiler toolkits. Both toolkits provide a build environment based around the GNU C/C++ compiler. Further information is @@ -50,13 +56,18 @@ INTRODUCTION the Cygwin DLL (compiled and linked with the "-mno-cygwin" option) may be released under any license freely. + Note: Since December 2009, there is a new gcc 4.x compiler + that doesn't support the -mno-cygwin option anymore. You + must use the older gcc-3 compiler instead. + + The MinGW distribution (Minimalist GNU for Windows) provides a similar toolset but geared solely towards native Windows development without the Unix-like POSIX library. The lack of any libraries under the GPL or any other restrictive license means that programs built with the MinGW environment may always be released under any license freely. MinGW also - supplies a Unix-like build environment for Windows, + supplies a Unix-like build environment for Windows, including MSYS (a Bourne-compatible shell) and the standard Unix file utilities (ls, cat, grep, etc.) @@ -178,7 +189,7 @@ WHY DOES A CONSOLE WINDOW APPEAR WHEN I RUN MY PROGRAM (Note: A special case of this exists if running a MinGW application from the command line of an MSYS shell, when an application is able to write to stdout, even if compiled with - "-mwindows".) + "-mwindows". The same applies to Cygwin.) HOW DO I GET OPENGL TO WORK? @@ -194,13 +205,3 @@ HOW DO I GET OPENGL TO WORK? will change this to compile and link in OpenGL. - - - - - - - - - - diff --git a/ide/README.IDE b/ide/README.IDE index e2e4914da..d67967d76 100755 --- a/ide/README.IDE +++ b/ide/README.IDE @@ -3,21 +3,59 @@ -------------------------------------------
As for today, FLTK 1.3 officially supports
-the following integrated environments (1) :
+the following integrated environments (1):
--------------------------------------------
-distrib subdir | supported products
--------------------------------------------
-ide/vc2005 | Microsoft Visual C++ 2005, 2008 (2)
-ide/visualc | Microsoft Visual C++ 6, 2003 (3)
-ide/Xcode3.1 | Apple XCode 3.1
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+distrib subdir | supported products
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ide/Visualc6 | Microsoft Visual C++ 6, 2008 Express (2)
+ide/vc2005 | Microsoft Visual C++ 2005, 2010 Express (3)
+ide/Xcode3 | Apple XCode 3.x
Notes :
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(1) For *nix platforms based on the autoconf/configure/make toolchain,
simply run autoconf, then the configure script on the root dir.
read the ./README file for more info.
-(2) When first using the project file (ide/vc2005/fltk.sln) with vc2008,
- you will be ask to convert the project for vs2008 use.
-(3) When first using the project file (ide/visualc/fltk.dsw) with vc2003,
- you will be ask to convert the project for vs2003 use.
+(2) When first using the project file (ide/VisualC6/fltk.dsw) with
+ VC++ 2003 or VC++ 2008 Express, you will be asked to convert
+ the project to the newer format.
+(3) When first using the project file (ide/vc2005/fltk.sln) with
+ VC++ 2008 Express or later, you will be asked to convert
+ the project to the newer format.
+
+
+Further notes about Microsoft IDE project files (July 2010):
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+Starting with Visual C++ 2008 Express, Microsoft offer a free IDE and
+compiler that can be used to build FLTK. The newest version is
+Visual C++ 2010 Express. Both versions can be used, but see below for
+instructions.
+
+The preferred and best maintained project files are those in the
+directory ide/VisualC6. Although the FLTK team currently doesn't
+have these old MS IDE versions available, this project (generated by
+FLTK's fluid software) ought to be up-to-date. This is not always
+true, however, if there are changes that affect the project, but we
+try to keep it always up-to-date.
+
+The ide/VisualC6 project files can be used with Visual C++ 2008 Express
+by opening the fltk.dsw file and confirming to convert the project to
+the new format.
+
+Unfortunately the ide/VisualC6 project files can't be converted with
+Visual C++ 2010 Express (at least not as easily - maybe there's a tool).
+We will update this if we find a way...
+
+The ide/vc2005 project files can be used with Visual C++ 2010 Express
+by opening the fltk.sln file and confirming to convert the project to
+the new format. This project is currently maintained manually and may
+be less up-to-date and fail to build.
+It is known to work with subversion release 7667 (July 04, 2010).
+
+Please note that FLTK 1.3 is work in progress. The subversion and
+snapshot files are not always guaranteed to work flawlessly.
+
+You may also have success by generating your own project files with
+CMake (see files README.CMake* in the top level directory), but
+that's currently not actively maintained.
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