Intro

An example project using the wxWidgets library and OpenGL.

Dependencies

• wxWidgets

Build Instructions

Before attempting to build this project, you'll first have to clone the project using the command below:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/FrodoAlaska/WxWidgetsExample.git
cd WxWidgetsExample

Notice the --recursive flags being passed to the git clone command. That is because this project uses submodules to manage its dependencies. The --recursive has to be passed in order to have a successful build process.

After cloning the project, we can finally start the build process. As you can see, this project uses cmake as its build system. We first make a build directory specifically for the debug build configuration and "cd" into it. Afterwards, using the cmake .. command, CMake will generate a bunch of files for building

mkdir build-debug && cd build-debug
cmake .. 

Once CMake is done, we can actually start building. On Windows, we can use the cmake --build . command, passing in the --config Debug flag to build a debug configuration of the project. Of course, Debug can be substituted with Release if need be. On Linux, the same command can be used, or we can just use make.

# Windows 
cmake --build . Debug --parallel 8

# Linux 
make -j 8

You might have noticed the --parallel or -j flags. These flags tell the compiler to use a certain number of threads (8, in this case) to handle the build process. These flags can be omitted completely. However, since this project will build the wxWidgets library from source, it is recomended to have this flag.