[GRASS-dev] wxgrass intro screen and location wizard completed

[Michael Barton]

What do you think about posting your and Paul's installation information to
the GRASS WIKI in the Python GUI section?

Michael


On 8/5/07 12:17 PM, "Benjamin Ducke" <benjamin.ducke at ufg.uni-kiel.de> wrote:

> Paul, Glynn, Michael and all
> 
> thanks for the hints, meanwhile I have figured out how to get
> things working on my Gentoo Linux box and the glitches I faced
> were pretty much the same you described. In case it will help
> anyone in the future, here are my notes for an installation of
> wxGRASS on Gentoo linux (or any other Linux distro from scratch,
> I guess):
> 
> ***
> 
> wxGRASS on Linux with wxPython from scratch:
> 
> This GUI is based completely on interpreted Python code. No compilation
> is required. GUI libs used are wxPython:
> 
> http://www.wxpython.org/
> 
> ... this includes a copy of the basic wxWindows widgets with the same
> version number as the wxPython distribution. So no need to install
> wxWindows/wxWdigets separately.
> 
> Problem: can create a real mess because there seem to be some steps
> that assume that a unicode build has been made and other that assume
> a plain ANSI build! If the two get mixed up, compilation will fail
> at some point complaining about missing include files in wx/ because
> the configure script is not pointing to the right build directory.
> 
> Solution: create a UNICODE build and make sure there is nothing lying
> around that still points to an ANSI build.
> 
> Step ONE: build main wxWidgets libs (will be done in subdirectory 'bld'
> in main
> wxPython sources dir).
> 
> extract archive to $WXDIR, configure (NOTE: change --prefix= to wherever
> your Python stuff and system libs are globally installed), build and
> install:
> 
> mkdir $WXDIR/bld
> cd $WXDIR/bld
> ../configure --prefix=/usr --with-gtk --without-gnomeprint --with-opengl
> --enable-geometry --enable-graphics_ctx --enable-sound --with-sdl
> --enable-mediactrl --enable-display --enable-optimize --enable-unicode
> make
> sudo make install
> exit
> 
> (NOTE: I disabled gnomeprint on my system, because it kept dumping
> a stupid "IPP" related error message on my console; you might want
> to set other options to better suit your system)
> 
> Now we need to make some contributed extensions. These are skipped by
> the main Makefile but will likely be needed later. Make sure you are in
> the 'bld' subdirectory.
> 
> cd contrib
> make
> sudo make install
> exit
> 
> This should have taken care to install all headers and libaries in
> the system-wide locations. Confirm that all is working by doing:
> 
> wx-config --version
> 
> and
> 
> wx-config --list
> 
> The version displayed by the first command needs to be the same as that
> of the wxPython you are installing. If not, there is an old version of
> wxWidgets floating around that you should deinstall (note: wx 2.8 has
> wx 2.6 compatibility enabled by default).
> 
> The second command should list just one wx configuration, namely the
> current UNICODE build. If it shows more, there are other builds in
> /usr/lib/wx/config and /usr/lib/wx/include. You may want to delete these.
> 
> Step TWO: create and install system-wide Python bindings for wx.
> 
> The Python extensions have to be made with superuser rights for a
> system-wide install:
> 
> cd $WXDIR/wxPython
> sudo python setup.py install
> 
> NOTE: setup.py is a little bit dumb. It assumes that you are doing a
> unicode build and that the extensions from the 'contrib' dir have been
> installed. If you followed the above instructions precisely, all should
> work. If not, you will get errors about missing includes in wx/ sooner
> or later. In that case, consult $WXDIR/docs/BUILD.txt for information on
> how to swith off dependencies.
> 
> ***
> 
> Paul Kelly wrote:
>> On Sat, 4 Aug 2007, Benjamin Ducke wrote:
>> 
>>> This looks great and I have been wanting to try wxGRASS for some time
>>> now, however on my Gentoo linux system I have actually never been able
>>> to get wxPython to run.
>> 
>> I got it installed and working on Slackware 12.0 a couple of weeks ago.
>> Some info below.
>> 
>>> Maybe someone could help me clarify some issues.
>>> 
>>> 1. I don't understand the relation between wxWindows, wxWidgets and
>>> wxPython. The wxWidgets site claims to have GUI libs with python
>>> support. If I install them, I get libs, header files and a config
>>> script called wx-config. That's OK. But why does the wxPython distro
>>> install those same files again? It also comes with a config script
>>> called wx-config and installs headers and include files in the same
>>> location as wxWidgets, even with the same names and same version
>>> numbers. I am confused ...
>> 
>> You just need to download the large 25MB or so file from wxPython and
>> all the other stuff comes with it. I suppose it gets complicated if you
>> have a different version of Wxwindows/wxwidgets installed already.
>> Luckily I was doing a clean installation.
>> 
>>> 2. The build and install instructions for wxPythons are a mess.
>>> From those two documents, I just can't seem to figure out how to
>>> make a global build and install from source. I manage to compile
>> 
>> I agree they are far more complicated than necessary. Seems like very
>> minimal effort has been put into making compilation and installation of
>> the package simple. FWIW, here are my (simplified) instructions which
>> worked for me:
>> 
>> Download combined Wxwidgets/Wxpython package from Wxpython website
>> (approx. 25MB)
>> Untar and cd into WxwidgetsDir
>> mkdir bld
>> cd bld
>> ../configure --enable-optimise --with-opengl
>> (If you don't enable OpenGL you get problems with the wxPython install
>> later
>> as it seems to assume OpenGL is enabled...)
>> make
>> make -C contrib/src/gizmos
>> make -C contrib/src/stc
>> sudo make install
>> sudo make -C contrib/src/gizmos install
>> sudo make -C contrib/src/stc install
>> cd ../wxPython
>> Edit config.py to say WX_CONFIG = "wx-config" or else warnings about having
>> only one config environment seem to confuse the next bit
>> sudo python setup.py install
>> 
>> and that was it. Hope it is useful to someone - meant to post it earlier
>> but forgot, sorry.
>> 
>> Paul
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 

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