Is wxWidgets 2.9+ still trying to support Windows CE/Mobile?

[Rutger van Eerd - Vanboxtel BV]

Hello,

I have used wxWidgets 2.8.12 without much problems on Windows CE 5 and 6
and Mobile 5, 6 and 6.5.

Is it still a goal of the wxWidgets project to support Windows CE and/or
Mobile (or Windows Embedded Compact or Handheld as it is now called)?

I am asking this because I downloaded the wxWidgets 2.9.3 release just
this week and got a lot of problems trying to compile it for Windows
Mobile 5.

First off there weren't any project files but I could make them myself
using bakefile (as described in the README). However the project files
were not a 100% correct (it uses the desktop setup.h file, for instance).

Secondly I got a lot of compiler errors after I fixed the project files.
These are mainly features that CE does not support but also some typos
that only show up in WXWINCE build.

This makes me wonder whether CE/Mobile support is still within the goals
of wxWidgets. But perhaps it is a known issue and still on the roadmap
for wxWidgets 3.0?
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Rutger van Eerd

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[Vadim Zeitlin]

On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:10:03 +0100 Rutger van Eerd - Vanboxtel BV <rve...@vanboxtel.nl> wrote:

RvEVB> I have used wxWidgets 2.8.12 without much problems on Windows CE 5 and 6
RvEVB> and Mobile 5, 6 and 6.5.
RvEVB>
RvEVB> Is it still a goal of the wxWidgets project to support Windows CE and/or
RvEVB> Mobile (or Windows Embedded Compact or Handheld as it is now called)?

We'd like to keep WinCE support in 3.0 but we need help with this as none
of the main developers is working on it, AFAIK. Please post to wx-dev if
you'd like to help with this.

Beyond 3.0 we have no plans for wxWinCE though as the platform itself will
be gone by the time we make 3.2.

Regards,
VZ

[Rutger van Eerd]

Vadim,

>  We'd like to keep WinCE support in 3.0 but we need help with this as none
> of the main developers is working on it, AFAIK. Please post to wx-dev if
> you'd like to help with this.

I'll see what I can do to help.

>
>  Beyond 3.0 we have no plans for wxWinCE though as the platform itself will
> be gone by the time we make 3.2.
>

Well that depends. It will probably go away for phones (Windows Phone
7 is not compatible with CE/Mobile) but Microsoft still sees a future
for Windows Embedded for consumer devices, such as setup boxes, or
business applications, such piont-of-sale, automotive, industrial
handheld.

Regards,
Rutger