[ptx] wxwidgets 2.5?

Hal V Engel hvengel at astound.net
Mon Apr 18 19:45:10 BST 2005


On Monday 18 April 2005 11:35 am, Rob Park wrote:
> On 4/18/05, Hal V Engel <hvengel at astound.net> wrote:
> > I am running 2.5.3 and I didn't have to do anything specific to get Hugin
> > to build.
>
> Really? Compile failed with all kinds of errors for me. I was under
> the impression that the change from wxwidgets 2.4 to 2.5 entailed a
> lot of changes that totally broke backwards compatibility, and that a
> bit of effort is required to port over. IIRC, part of the change was
> that microsoft wanted them to change their name from "wxwindows" to
> "wxwidgets", so they did a global search & replace on the source tree,
> with basically renamed the API in a big way, breaking compatibility
> with everything.

While I don't know about windows since I am running Linux and it build just 
fine using wxGTK 2.5.3 which is the linux version of the wedget set.  I 
thought that the whole point behind this widget set was that the API would be 
exactly the same for all architectures. 


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