I have tried to setup and create wxWidgets project using wxWindgets installer and code::block-mingw installations.
When I am trying to create a wx-widgets smith project, I have below problem
A matching Debug configuration cannot be found in the wxWidgets directory you specified.
This means Debug target of your project will not build
Are you sure you want to continue with these settings ?
does anybody have any idea about this and what is the recommended way to setup wxWidgets and code-block in Windows ?
Did you compile your wxWidgets as a debug build? I got the same error, because I only buitl wxWidgets as a release build. However, I didn't intend to use the debug build anyway, because I didn't want to debug it, just use it. So you can continue with your project and then you have to replace the library names with the correct ones. Mostly this means removing the d at the end of the library name.
If you want to use a debug build, you have to build wxWidgets as a debug as well.
To fix the library names, you'd have to right-click on your project and go to "Build options... -> Linker settings".
Update
To compile it using MingW you have to follow this guide.
You may also have to adjust the include paths in your build options:
D:\src\c\wxWidgets_3.0.0\lib\gcc_lib\msw
D:\src\c\wxWidgets_3.0.0\include
And for the linker:
D:\src\c\wxWidgets_3.0.0\lib\gcc_lib
Problem is solved by following the exact instruction provided in Compiling wxWidgets 3.0.0 to develop Code::Blocks (MSW) section. I couldn't build wxWidgets correctly in windows. After I build wxWidget the same alert message mentioned in the question was popped when creating wxWidgets project using Code::Block but I dismissed and continue to create the project. This time it was worked.
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So I recently finished a VC++ console application I have been working on and I sent it to one of my friends to try out but he cant even open it because he keeps getting an error.
A box will open up with the title Bad - Image and then it shows the error and stuff, it says it cant find the file MSVCP140D.dll on my friends computer but when I start the program it runs fine.
Can anyone tell me why he cant play the program and how to fix it?
You have built your project in debug mode and you are using Multi-threaded Debug DLL (/MDd) RunTime library.
In Visual Studio main menu, select Project -> Properties
Go to "Configuration Properties" -> C/C++ -> Code Generation
In Runtime Library, select Multi-threaded Debug (/MTd) and rebuild your project.
Alternatively you can build your project in Release mode, then select Multi-threaded (/MT) Runtime library.
This will make a stand-alone executable file which uses standard windows libraries, you won't have to provide additional dlls with the *.exe file.
You need to ship your program with the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable package. That's MSVCP140D.dll.
As user4581301 pointed out, the D in MSVCP140D.dll means 'Debug'.
You shouldn't ship a debug-enabled executable. It makes reverse engineering, hacking, and other modifications easier.
You should instead compile a release build, and ship it with the redistributable.
Well you need to do one thing(the easy solution), you just go to your system32 directory at system where you have built the code and find out the file MSVCP140D.dll, put it with your executable(.exe) and give it to your friend, and tell him to keep the dll in same folder as the exe.
MSVCP140D.dll (redistributable pack) is one of the run time dependencies you need to provide to run your application.
Now it will get installed. Or you can copy the dll at system32 at target system and then try.
But you shouldn't provide the debug build if you are giving it to client, you should provide the release version of it.
I'm using a library (Astro.lib) which i've built without problems (i guess this is a release build).
I've also built a project which references the library (it runs as a release exe fine) but i can't debug the project because i get the message 'unable to start program 'Astro.lib'.
If i try to debug the lib then i get the same error, so I guess its something to do with not building for debug my lib but not sure how to modify.
I've tried changing the properties pages using MSDN info but not sure i'm addressing the correct problem. What changes should i make to the properties pages of the library of linking project?
Thanks in advance
I've also built a project which references the library
That's the project you want to debug. You probably just have the wrong project selected as the startup project of your solution. It is marked in bold type in the Solution Explorer window.
Right-click the project that uses the library and select "Set as StartUp Project"
your debug settings are wrong - you're trying to debug the lib, not the exe.
Chances are you've set the library project as the one that is started by the debugger (eg the "startup project" that shows in bold in Visual studio). Change your solution explorer so the main executable project is bold and try again, or right click on it and selecty the appropriate "run in the debugger" option.
Another solution is:
Make sure you have the Solution Explorer view (VIEW->SOLUTION EXPLORER).
Then, right click on SOLUTION at the top, and click EXPLORER.
Under COMMON PROPERTIES->STARTUP PROJECT -> SINGLE STARTUP PROJECT, choose the project that you want VS to execute. Note that this project has the property CONFIGURATION TYPE set as APPLICATION(.EXE). This can b found under the project's properties->CONFIGURATION PROPERTIES->GENERAL.
Hope that helps.
I have downloaded c++ open source application which was created using under Linux IDE/Editor (or maybe something NOT Windows) and its no longer supported.
This time I want to edit and recompile it using VS 2010.
Error(s) left (mostly prefixed with "wx") such as:
"wxString is undefined"
"wxStaticText expected a type specifier"
etc... makes me think that this is all about wxWidgets.
After successfully building wxWidgets, what to do next to integrate it to the actual c++ program for me to be able to edit and compile using VS 2010?
I use BorlandC++ last 2 years ago but not familiar with GUI packages.
The first step is to tell the compiler where to look for the wxWidgets include files.
So, you need to find out where these files are, which depends on where you installed and built wxWidgets.
On my system, this is C:\Program Files (x86)\wxWidgets-2.8.12
I consider the best way is to, instead of hard-coding the path in every project, create an environment variable WXROOT to store the path to your wxWidgets folder.
Control Panel | System | Advanced | Environment variables
Now you have to tell the compiler about this
Visual Studio | Project | Properties | C/C++ | Additional Include Directories
What you add here depends on what kind of build you are doing. If you are doing a unicode release build, then this will be a good start
"$(WXROOT)\lib\vc_lib\mswu";"$(WXROOT)\include"
Now you should have fixed your compiler errors.
Next you will get some linker errors ....
Maybe the errors are caused because you are using wxwidget 2.8 which is unsupported in VS 2010.
Try building wxwidgets 2.9 or use VS 2008. I had no problem building wxwidgets 2.9 on VS 2010.
Wxwidgets site home says "While this is still officially a development release because some API details are still not frozen, we believe that 2.9.3 can be used in production environment".
About what to do after successfully build it, take a look at this http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Microsoft_Visual_C%2B%2B_Guide
You may want to use the tutorial of the section "Creating a new project from a sample" 'cause creating a project by hand is a little bit complicated as wxwidgets requires some extra configuration and not just to set and include and libs dir as most of the libs does.
Here is a video which shows how to start with Visual Studio.
Also you can take a look at samples directory and create your own project based on configuration of projects from that directory.
May be I am little bit late , But this will help newcomers to wxwidgets.
First of all Goto Wxwidgets directory(to download path) in my case it is "C:\Users\WxWidgets_all".
Now in that folder goto build directory.Now open Visual Studio Command prompt. If you have already installed Visual Studio then you can easily find it through start menu.
Now in command prompt go upto <Path to your wxWidgets>/build/msw/ . Now run Following Commands.
nmake /f makefile.vc--For Static Library and Debug Version
nmake /f makefile.vc SHARED=1--For SHARED Library and Debug Version
nmake /f makefile.vc BUILD=release--For SHARED Library and Release Version
After completing it , you will have dll or lib in "<path to wxwidgets>\lib\" depending on option provided in above commands.
Now include all files related to wxwidgets in your project.Mainly two paths are required to include "<path to wxwidgets>\inlcude\" and "<path to wxwidgets>\lib\vc_<lib\dll>".
After that link your wxwidgets generated library to your project.To do this inlcude "<path to wxwidgets>\lib\vc_<lib\dll>" to your project property in library section.
Now add below preprocessors to your project.
_WINDOWS
NDEBUG(For Release)
_DEBUG(For Debug)
_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE=1
_CRT_NON_CONFORMING_SWPRINTFS=1
_SCL_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS=1
__WXMSW__
_UNICODE
After that add following library to your project from "<path to wxwidgets>\lib\vc_<lib\dll>"
wxbase30u_net
wxmsw30u_core
wxbase30u
wxtiff
wxjpeg
wxpng
wxzlib
wxregexu
wxexpat
wxmsw30u_adv
Based on your compiled options , library name can be little bit different.
I think I have covered all the steps to run wxWidgets.
Even if you got errors , You can check minimal project in "<path to wxwidgets>\samples"
directory. Try to run that project , and even if you got error then your wxwidgets is not built properly.
Hope this will help.
I downloaded the latest wxmathplot but the readme is a bit sparse with instructions on how to build on win32 platform.
Has anyone used this library for win32? Can someone point me to the docs or give some hints/advice on how to build for win32 targets.
We'll eventually use this for cross platform stuff, for now it is just win32 until we port our other code.
I presume I have to use CMake, but have not used it before and it is not obvious to me how to build this all - I have already installed CMake, but I am apparently too stupid to figure out how to build this library/samples.
Well, I managed to make an SLN file, but it was not obvious.
I use wxMathPlot. I simply add mathplot.cpp and mathplot.h to the MSVS2008 C++ projects that need to use it. This compiles and links without my having to do anything special.
Here is a partial answer - to get
CMake to build an sln file:
Well, unfortunately there is no good
documentation on how to build
wxMathPlot on Windows, but it is very
simple. Just use CMake:
http://www.cmake.org/
Download and install it, then open
CMake gui, selecting the directory
where you uncompressed wxMathPlot and
a target build directory. click
Configure twice and then click
Generate. CMake does all its magic and
you'll get project files to build
wxMathPlot depending on your compiler.
For example, if you use Visual Studio,
a solution sln file is generated: open
it and build.
That works for building an sln file
I am working on project in Linux which involves
1) Static Lib in C++
2) GUI developed in C++/QT which uses static lib.
Now both the lib and gui are build from command prompt using makefiles.
I am trying to debug both like when I hit one button, call should go from GUI to lib.
Is it possible to do like this in Linux with eclipse?
I can easily follow same debugging procedure in Windows using Visual studio and attaching lib to GUI but I cannot find any good way to do here with eclipse.
I have tried many IDEs/debuggers like
Anjuta
Code Blocks.
DDD,Kdbg
but none is working properly.
I am not sure that if I am wrong or is it much complex to debug?
Can some one suggest one proper way to debug ?
There shouldn't be any problem with debugging a static library as the relevant portions of it will be built in to the binary that you are debugging. If you are having problems then some things to check are that both the library and the binary are built with debugging information (usually the option -g to the compiler on linux) and that your debugger has access to the source code to the library.
Can you be any more specific about how debugging isn't working? It sounds like 'stepping in' to a library function isn't working as you are expecting it to.
Well I figured it out..
I am currently using Kdevelop..
With Kdevelp we can create QT project as well as c++(lib) project.
And there is option to attach process also.
So I can step through lib code by attaching GUI .
I created new project in eclipse and added existing source folder .
It then automatically adds all source files. Project has its own custom makefile . Now when I try to Debug the project , it shows me Debug window where I selected C/C++ Attach to Local application because I want to attach lib to GUI.
It asks me to enter project name in Debug window.
In Windows with visual studio it gives list of processes that can be attached, but here am I supposed to create project ?
I dont understand this..