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

Mon Aug 6 06:40:48 EDT 2007

Sure, if you would like to post my instructions: go ahead
and do it. I have no idea about Wikis and how they work
(or how the heck you are supossed to find a piece of information
on one of them) ...

Ben

> 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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