Configuring eclipse to work with wxWidgets code

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Lubos Pintes

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Feb 22, 2014, 3:52:32 AM2/22/14
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Hello list,
I am screen reader user running Windows 7 64-bit. When I am playing with
source code, I am using Eclipse, because it has quite good
accessibility. It works nicely with Java, so I suspect it will work
equally well with C/C++ code.
I would like to explore wxWidgets code in eclipse and possibly build it
from source using Eclipse.
So I would like to ask, is it possible? How can I configure Eclipse to
work nicely with wxWidgets code?
Thanks!

Vadim Zeitlin

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Feb 22, 2014, 11:52:40 AM2/22/14
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On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 09:52:32 +0100 Lubos Pintes wrote:

LP> How can I configure Eclipse to work nicely with wxWidgets code?

I've never used it myself with wxWidgets but a lot of other people did and
there is a wiki page about it at http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Eclipse which
can hopefully answer your questions (and if it doesn't, please consider
updating it to provide the missing information).

Good luck,
VZ

Lubos Pintes

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Feb 22, 2014, 1:45:30 PM2/22/14
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Hmm it seems pretty outdated, wxWidgets 2.6 are mentioned, and Ubuntu. I
am on Windows, but anyway I will look into it.
Maybe Bakefile could also generate Eclipse CDT projects??

Vadim Zeitlin

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Feb 22, 2014, 1:46:14 PM2/22/14
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On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 19:45:30 +0100 Lubos Pintes wrote:

LP> Maybe Bakefile could also generate Eclipse CDT projects??

No, unfortunately it can't.

Regards,
VZ

Stephan van den Akker

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Feb 22, 2014, 4:59:13 PM2/22/14
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Hi Lubos,

I use eclipse to work on wxWidgets on a daily basis. I had a look at
http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Eclipse and don't see a reason why it should
be considered outdated. It still very much works like this.

Cheers,

Stephan

Lubos Pintes

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Feb 23, 2014, 6:30:20 AM2/23/14
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Oh I must say that I didn't test it. :D Version 2.6 was mentioned, so I
thought that sources were modified, new files removed/added etc. so
Eclipse projects are not up-to-date.

Stephan van den Akker

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Feb 23, 2014, 3:32:11 PM2/23/14
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Notice the use of wx-config inside eclipse. It will generate the
necessary parameters to successfully build and link your program with
the installed version of wxWidgets. This way, within eclipse you are
quite isolated from version differences inside wxWidgets.
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